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tD It was on a humid night In early July
with St, Louis Browns and Cleveland
Indians battling desperately in a low -scoring
American League baseball game, that a
slimLuis bull -pen, wiry Negro end was
ru led the called
to from
the
mound
in emergency.
Ordinarily, this wouldn't be unusual. But this Negro was at
least 50 years old. Perhaps more. Yet for inning after inning,
he stood on the pitching hill, defying the power of Cleveland's
heavy -hitting team to score a run off him,
Inning afar inning, he flung his pitching wizardry at the
enemy. Baffled by his streaking fast ball, his tantalizing curves,
the power -house team went runless. Not until ten scoreless inn-
ings had been pitched by this veteran Negro, did Cleveland break
through with the winner.
The Negro was Satchell Paige, one of baseball's most
fabulous personalities. And this, his second such effort of the
season, rates, we think as one of the great feats of the baseball
year, something to enthuse those wl.•o like to sec a wrong righted.
The \vrong was this: here is a man who was probably the
finest pitcher of his time, and his time was long. But be had no
chance to prove it.
Seems to us we have heard oof the ugh featsoffi"Ol can't cbeh" Truer
since we started growing up,
Competent baseball men told us for years that Paige would burn
up either big league, given the opportunity.
At a late date in life, at an age when most ballplayers are
not good enough for minor leagues, even Satchell Paige got his
belated chance.
For fame came late to Satchell. It was not until the twiligl:t
of 'his amazing career that he was given a chance to pitch in the
bag leagues -by Bill Veeck at Cleveland There, in 1948, he got
a chance • to pitch in his first World Series.
You 'can spend sonic time speculating what a pitcher Paige
must have been 20 years ago, when there was more steel and
rubber in his pitching -arm. That today ' he could at his age,
pitch 10 scoreless games in top company makes one stand ready
to 'believe any legendary tale they tell of "Old Satch's" fabulous
exploits -2,000 games pitched in 20 years, for instance. That's a
game every 31/2 days, the year 'round'. "Satoh" probably did it.
An amazing figure, and a notable addition to the list of those
who prove that while life may begin at 40, competitive life
doesn't end there, in sport, with such exhibits as Willie Hoppe,
Jersey Joe Walcott, Bob ]Fitzsimmons, and Bill Cool; offered on
behalf of the defence.
Vous comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 'Yonne St., Toronto.
DISTILLERS LIMITED
MHERSTBURO, ONTARIO
If the New York Yankees pian -
age to make it again this year—
by no means a certainty at this writ-
ing, but still they're out in front
by a couple of lengths—no little
art' of the credit must go to Billy
Martin, For young Mr, Martin
seems to be one of those "throw-
backs" seen all .too seldom these
days—a ball player who plays not
for money, but for the sheer love
of the game.
* * *
Of course, he gets paid—well paid,
at that. But his attitude to the
sport is close 'to that of Babe Ruth
when he was starting out. Babe,
told what salary he was going to
get from Jack Dunn's Baltimore
team, is said to have blurted, in
genuine amazement, "You don't
mean to say they PAY folks for
playing ball!"
* * *
Casey Stengel has been high on
Billy Martin right from the first.
"That's my boy" has been his an-
swer to everybody 'who suggested
that Martin be part of a trade or
deal. In the New York Times re -
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teresting things to say about the
young infielder.
* * * .
Martin has been a solid man in
his infield for most of the season
and would have been lots better if
he hadn't had the misfortune to
break an ankle during spring train-
ing. Billy was 'hotter than a $2
pistol in the South. Stengel, the
Machiavellian schemer, was figuring
on hien as a regular somewhere in
the infield because service calls
soon would claim Jerry Coleman
and Bobby Brown. But the kid's
crack-up ended that notion, de-
layed his start and impaired his
effectiveness,
* *
"As near as I've been able to cal-
culate," said Billy with rueful mod-
esty, the other day, "that ankle
cost me twenty or thirty points in
my batting average, I was right
in the hitting groove in Florida and
would have had a big jump on the
pitchers before they . settled down.
Not only did I have to start all
over again when I returned, ' but
my ankle slowed me up just enough
so that I was missing the close
ones instead of getting thein. But
as long as the team wins, what's
the difference?"
* * *
In many respects Billy the Kid
is a throwback to the old-time ball
players, a snarling scrapper obsess-
ed with the idea of winning. He's
The Limp Ducks—Umpire Scotty Robb pulls his almost bruised head
in dust A t3 ne. Tho bell thuds into White -Sox Chico Carrasquel's
glove too lee to tag Boston's Faye Thorneberry who stole second
base.
P1owe es
th plu lg
Snow-
Fillled.
Drives -
A. S. Jaffe and
Mike Morris,
fed up with
driveway -
shoveling on
snowy
mornings,
invented
plowettes to do
the job. Jaffe,
seen above,
is attaching the
V -bladed
snow -cleaner
to his bumper.
It will clear
wheel -width
paths; worked
well in snow
and sand tests.
irreverent, cocky and, on occasions,
downright mean. That's when he is
in uniform. Out of uniform, he's
quiet, modest, polite and as nice a
kid as you'd ever want to meet.
No wonder Stengel is so crazy
about him.
* *
The 01' Perfessor first fell for
him when he managed the brash
Mr. Martin at Oakland. After one
ball game, which the Oaks barely
won, Billy cane to his skipper in
abject apology for a most peculiar
• play he'd made.
* * ,*
"I hadn't oughter have done it,
Case," he said contritely. "It mighta
cost us the ball game. But I couldn't
resist. The last time I went to bat
that pitcher was throwing at my
head. He'd been lowering'the boom
at me all day. So when he comes
to bat, I call time and -talk to our
pitcher.
"'Jonesey,' I tell hint. 'That guy's
been lowbridging me. You gotta,
throw at his head in order to pro-
tect me.' He won't do it. So I go
over to hint again. 'Jonesey,' I say,
'You gotta protect me or I won't
protect you. If ycu don't low -bridge
him, maybe I won't come up with
the double -play ball you need.'
* * *
"Well, Case, I guess I was wrong
in telling him that. He don't lower
the boom on him and the other
pitcher walks. Then I was even
more wrong in what I did. The
next batter hits the double -play
ball. I step on the bag, ‘pivot and
—Case, I'm almost ashamed at what
I did. I should have thrown to first.
But I see that big goof of a pitcher
coming down the line and I throw
the ball at his head. Someone has
to teach that guy good manners.
Our pitcher won't do it. So I did
it myself. I'm sorry, Case. I won't
let it happen any more." As an af-
terthought he added, "Unless maybe
he low -bridges me again."
* * *
Once the pennant was clinched
last season, Stengel started a junior
varsity team. Martin walked over
to Phil Rizzuto near the batting
cage.
"Out of the way, you little
squirt," he said cheerfully. "Us re-
gulars gotta hit and you're just
a substitute today. I've decided that
I'm the captain of this team and
you better do what the captain
says."
"Yes, sir," said Phil mischievous-
ly. "I mean—yes, capt'n."
* * *
Martin has been the unofficial
captain of the Yankees ever since.
* * *
Bellicose Billy hit the headlines
twice this season by hitting enemy
ball players. He belted Cliff Court-
ney of the Browns when Courtney
objected with his fists to the too
vigorous manner in which Martin
tagged ultra,
* * *
But before that he tangled in
wordy battles with Jim Piersall of
the Red Sox until a certain remark
compelled him to finish off Piersall
in a brisk fist fight under the club-
house. To Martin it was the insult
supreme.
"You fresh busher," taunted Pier-
sall. Billy Martin is awfully fresh
but he's no busher.
PARTING WISH
Judge Jim Wallace, of the New
York Supreme Court, remembers
when two natives of County Cork
occupied adjoining cells in the doth
house. The dread morning arrived
when Paddy was scheduled to be
led to the electric chair. The Gov-
ernor had failed to grant a reprieve,
and Paddy knew his case was hope-
less. As the guards carne to lead him
down "the last mile," his friend
Mike inthe next cell strove des-
perately 40 think of something
cheering to say. At the last mo-
ment, he waved his hand through
flit bars and called jovially, "Well,
Paddy rile boy, more power to ycl"
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The specialist shrugged his shoul-
ders eiequently. The patient with
stomach trouble had refused the
operation suggested and left the
consulting -room. For two years he
had existed on sloppy foods, and
now had neither energy nor sta-
mina, but only a desire to get well
and live a normal life.
It was a bee -keeper friend who
suggested a diet of honey, a sug-
gestion which was accepted on the
principle of trying everything
once. At the end of si.t months the
patient felt a new man, no longer
having to spend eighteen hours a
day in bed and leaving his wife to
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year -he was normal—and cured.
Honey had done the trick yet once
again.
Milk, Too
Honey is Nature's perfect food,
one of her only two products in-
tended solely as food. Milk is the
other. one.
Honey is manufactured. The
honey -making bee sips the nectar
from the flowers, mixes it with
juices from specialised salivary
glands, and evaporates the sur-
plus water. When it is ripe she
seals it' in cells of the combs, ,and
then Itr , is safe for a thousand
years .iiia' more; pure food you
might say for all time.
Its train constituents are dex-
trose, levulose, and sucrose—grape,
fruit, and cane sugars. It also con-
tains, among other things, copper,
manganese chlorine, calcium, sul-
phur, phosphorus, magnesium, iron,
silica.
1t is hygroscopic—that is, it
draws moisture from anything and
everything with which it conies in
contact, which is why germs can-
not live in pure honey. It draws
out the water on which they live.
Experiments conducted in the
U.S.A. prove that the germ causing
typhoid fever can only live in honey
for 48 hours; that the germ caus-
ing dysentery is rendered impotent
in 10 hours; and the germ mainly
responsible for bronchial pneu-
monia has "had it" after four days.
Ambrosia
American hospitals have used
honey for the treatment of wounds
for many years, and now it is an-
nounced that one great English
hospital is using honey exclusively
for the dressing of surgical wounds
in its operating theatre.
Honey is the great energy -pro-
vider, its sugars being absorbed in
the its
within 10 min-
utes of being eaten or drunk in
water, It is also a fine nightcap if
a teaspoonful is taken in a cup of
hot water, since it induces sleep.
A solution of honey and water in
equal parts will ' not freeze solid,
but a similar sugar solution will.
Because of this a mixture of honey
and water was until recently used
as an anti -freeze liquid in automo-
bile radiators.
The ancients were fully aware of
the virtues of honey, and used it as
food, medicine, ointment, and as a
hair -restorer. The Romans mixed
it with fruit juices and drank it as
a health - giving beverage. The
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Greeks mixed it with milk and call-
ed it ambrosia, and the finest hon-
ey in the ancient world came from
the slopes of Mount Hymmettus
a few miles outside Athens, where
thyme grew in great profusion.
In Hot Water
It is believed that the ancient
Britons were enthusiastic bee -keep-
ers, and one of the early names
given to Britain was The Honey
Isle of Beli. The Roman historian,
Plutarch, asserted that the Brit-
ons only began to grow old when
a hundred and twenty years of age,
and attributed this to the amount
of honey they consumed.
The famous Anglo Saxon mead
was made by fermenting the li-
quor obtained by boiling in water
combs from which the honey had
been drained. One ounce of hops
was then added to each gallon of
this and some brandy, and the re-
sulting liquid was the potent sack -
mead.
In ancient Egypt it was valued
as an embalming material, and
even to -day those qualities are ex-
ploited. When eggs or seeds have
to travel for a great distance over
a lengthy period they are some-
times packed in honey.
In India a mixture of honey and
milk, or equal parts of curds and
clarified butter, is the usual offer-
ing made to a bridegroom on his
arrival at the door of the bride's
father. One of the purification
ceremonies of the Hindus consists
of placing a little honey in the
mouth of a new-born baby.
Honey should not be clear like
syrup, for that means the pollen
has been strained out of it, and it
is the pollen that provides the
Vitamin' C, a vital ingredient.
And don't throw your jar of
honey away if it candies or crys-
tallizes. Only ripe honey will can.,
dy, and It can easily be liquefied
again if you like it that way by
standing the jar in hot water.
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