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The Brussels Post, 1955-04-13, Page 7!RECO/Vett SPORTS COLUMN 4 Eema Ve494444 THE SHAUGHNESSY STORY — Part • This Is the story of resource, stub- born tenacity and imagination that has saved the International Baseball League, second oldest of all groups in professional baseball, from oblivion, It is the story Of Frank Joseph Shaughnessy. When the ancient International starts its 72nd season next week, 200 baseball players and a million fans in eight cities can thank the tall, lanky, red-headed Irish- man that this League is still in existence. Frank Joseph Shaughnessy, in his 19 years as president of the International has seen hve cities drop from his circuit. If he ever feared the worst, only Shaughnessy himself knew. In the gruff, rasping voice which produces his rugged phrases, he brushed aside all suggestion that the eight-club League might be forced to cut to six clubs. Shaughnessy was never discouraged, even in the face of developments that might have daunted a lesser man than this former Notre Dame football star, professional baseball player, major league hockey pilot, minor league baseball manager, football coach and Royal Canadian Artillery officer in World War I. When Frank Shaughnessy became president of the Inter- national, the threat of television hadn't arrived. The League was solid, prosperous. All was well. Then Newark, long a League stronghold, suddenly fell into an attendance decline as television cast its blight. That was in 1950, and Shaughnessy went out on his first safari. He talked. Chicago Cubs into backing a team in Springfield, Mass. Again it was business as usual. But only for a season. The spreading popularity of tele- • vision struck again in 1951. The Jersey City Club, despite efforts of civic leaders, • collapsed, withdrew. Once more, Shaughnessy went club-hunting. This time he turned to one of his own former haunts, Ottawa, where he had once piloted, briefly, a major league hockey?, club. Baseball heads listened to his persuasive voice. Major league backing was found for a team in the, capital and Shaughnessy could breathe easily again—for a while. The worst was yet to come. It wasn't long before the big Irish red-head was on the hunt again, scanning the baseball horizon for cities that might harbour a team for the Inter- national Baseball League. Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431,Yonge Se., Toronto. Calvert DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTBURG, ONTARIO- SITTING BULL—"Polytechoic" pass Laa," just a lad as bulls go, has learned to sit, 'a 'union accomplishment among dairy 1,, BABY CHICKS PHONE, write or drop in. Ask for April price list, Lose no time placing that order while you can get the hreed or cross you want without waiting, BRAY HATCHERY, 120 JOHN HAMILTON. 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Mr. Harry Schraemli, of LuT cerne, claims to have the• finest' collection of cookery books in the world, He owns about 2,500 works in 30 languages,the old- est being a clay tablet with Babylonia cuneiform characters dating back. to 2400 B.C. Perhaps the most original of all Swiss collectors, however, is. Mr. Hans Schweizer, a retired insurance salesman. He lives in a three-room house near Zu- rich, and whiles away the hours surrounded by glass show-cases so closely packed together that one can hardly pass between the rows. Inside these show - cases? Snakes—alive and by the hun- dred, from all• over the world! Men arid women, young and old, kings, presidents, profes- sional men and women, and labourers; we are all prone to be bitten by the "collecting bug," and who knows• into what strange paths, or to what re- sults will the habit lead? Over a hundred years ago the son of a London chemist put his small collection of the re- cently introduced postage stamps in his father's shop window. 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It was' the worst lecust plague that coun- try had known for more than a century. " The locusts came in swarms so dense that the sky was black- ened with them. Great fields of crops were devastated in a few hours. Before scientists began to tackle the problem of the lo- cust, some natives of North Af- rica used to offer sacrifices' and cast snells so that their lands might be delivered from the flying plague, Huge fire's were lit, drums were beaten and rat- tles whirled in futile attempts to get rid of the pests. To-day, research has reveal- ed 'that all locust outbreaks. can be traced to a few spots: Scien- tists this. year are stepping up the' campaign on the breeding &Minds thernselvea. They. are concentrating .on exterminating locust's when they are in, the hopper stage — before they can fly, -In one 'mass attack on locusts in ,East °Africa an expedition of 4,000 Africab troops and a large force of labourers in' 300 motor vehicles 'travelled 200 miles Over desert carrying equipment and 40,000 .bags of poison bait, in- .cludirig the 'water necessary in using it. Each bag of poison required eight gallons of water --- 320,000. gallons altogether — betides the 10,000 gallons a day required for human use. The troops often fought the locusts for more than 'twelve hours a day, wiping out countless In the Argentine, where le- Cutts are active every year from' January to March, Mil- . lions of pesos are spent yearly in fighting them. 'Planet spray the swarms With flames arid neaten gtia. More than 50,000 tons of 16-1 Mists have been wined Out there in a single caitipaigli. Locusts in parts of the World eat at least $46,066,- 806 Werth of foodstuffs every year, it it :calculated, COBRA TURNED RATTLER' THIS IS SPRING'—The weatherman, 'played a nasty trick ori tour-year-old Jean Whitehouse. A 'little girl expects d lot en the first day of spring, but not Snow, and that'S why idori Sitting sd dejectedly' On titre Steps of her kortie. Cougar Queen A clear - eyed, middle - aged woman is called "Queen of the Cougar Hunters" on Vancouver Island. She is Mrs. Milwarde Yates, Who has been shooting the big cats for 17 years and whose "bag" now totals 23. •Shooting is her hobby, but .she is also protecting her mountain-side farm from those marauders that prey upon livestock, taking heavy toll in many farm elear- ings. Sometimes called mountain- lions, cougars seldoth attack humans, but can be dangerous when wounded. , It takes an accurate shot to bring the big cats from the trees, Where they seek refuge after being corner- ed by dogs. Mrs. Yates has been hunting since ahild, graduating froth grouse aid deck to deer and cougar: She has many gung, in, eluding a Shotgun, a 22-calibre rifle, and a 65-year-Old tWiri barrel .450 Express big-game Mit, Yates, her husband Tanes, and 16-year-old Son Douglas, live on the "Cougar Run," circular path followed by dotigara, each year. It starts' and ends on the breeding, grounds, in the centre Van, eotiyer an& iii Vatea leaVeS the hunting his. wife. He saYs:s "She has such a petsion for' cougar hie, that she will get tip in the rrtiddle of the night and Wirt Ont. With a fiaililight" All 'Otisks: Art alone, Enduring stays to U? 4 The bilk outlasts the throtie,,—. The Coin, Tiberius" —Th6ophile Ctentiet CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING. MEDICAL PONT WAIT EVERY SUFFERER OP RHEUMATIC PAINS OR NEURITIS SHOULD TRY DIXON'S REMEDY. MUNRO'S; DRUG ,STORE 335 ELGIN OTTAWA $1.25 EXPRESS PREPAID 'POST'S ECZEMA SALVE . . .„. 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HOME Made Wines, 21 secret reciPell that can be made easily in the home. cellar, $1. Rosa, 387 East 156 Street, "NYC, New York. B U Y or sell wholesale products; Watches, Electric Appliances. Send 30# in coins or Stamps for Catalog. Levette Service, P.O. Box 775, Greensboro North, Carolina. ordering stamps for his collec- tion. By the time the stamps be- gan to arrive his interest had turned elsewhere, and, the pack- ets of stamps were packed away and forgotten.. aa Years later his niece, found them in an attic, and had them sent to a iamous stamp dealer. The dealer's eyes widened when be saw whole sheets, of rare stamps. The gale" ,of the atainps, re- alized a fortune. 'The true cola lector despises the person, who enjoys the pleasures of- collect- ing for fashions's sake. More obnoxious still. is, the. speculator Who buys up stamps with •a view to selling later at a profit. This collecting habit has en; 'doomed' ' intrinsically • WorthleiS item's ?with tan, increasingly, high value. . Even the humble cigarette cards we 'treasured in our boy- hood are to-day, fetching sev- eral hundred dollars for a single complete set. BE A HAIRDRESSER 4, JOIN CANADA'S LEADING SCHOOL Creat Opportunity. , Learn' Hairdressing, ko• Pleasant, dignified' profession, good w ages, Thousands of successful Mar- vel graduates. • . America's Greatest' `System Illustrated Catalogue Free Write or Call MARVEL. HAIRDRESSING 358 floor St. W. Toronto' • Branches 42 . King: St., :;Hamilton " 72 'Ridearl' "St., Ottawa.; 35 EXTRA EGGS per hen, per year Nobody ever gave a. certain picture hanging in the Hunting- don Town Hall more than a casual glance. But recently it was sent with other pictures to be cleaned and restored by a firm of fine art dealers. Only then was it dis- covered that the painting, a full- length portrait of Queen Caro- line, wife of George II, is a mas- terpiece. It is a Gainsborough, and worth a fortune. When the Presi- dent of the Royal Academy saw it, he said: "It is a magnificent portrait and in excellent condi- tion." • Sensational picture "finds" rarely occur today, but the Gainsborough discovery is a re- 'minder that some people have had fortunes hanging on their walls without realizing it. One of -the most striking pic- ture finds took place at Worthing • where, children playing darts used as, their target a dirty old canvas measuring 30 in. by 20 in. which hung in the lobby of: a small house. One day • the woman owner took it down and chanced to notice beneath the grime what appeared to be the portrait of a young woman with powdered hair and wearing a Muslin dress with yellow trimmings. On her next visit to London she took it to a dealer, hoping to get a pound or two for it. He declined to buy' it, so she took the canvas to some art sale- rooms. There an expert. looked closely .at it and announced it was un- doubtedly a portrait, by Gains- borough of the famous Miss Lin- ley, the beauty whom the play- wright Sheridan married. Valuable Painting Used As Target ,palt : C4MINEOW 1!Squeekvair'Ate acat,S ha's gone modern. At least,, hiaahonae? atyle—or,hia new hOine, Matches the ,prch itectu ofah ias m a Store", home, background. MK and Mrs. Roger White, shown abeve, 'are Satieeky's owners. Still Looking For Cure For Baldness • ,,Scieace . is, waging, a hair- raising new war on an enemy which.has:worriecliien"for cen- turies — baldness. Experiments now taking place may* lead one day to bald heads becalming things ot the past. A -new, drug is being tried out on eighty-five "guinea-pig" bald- headed men in the hope that hair will once more sprout from their billiard-ball skulls. The,, possibilities of atomic energy for curing baldness are also being explored. Great at- tention as being given to the :value of ;food and diet which, scientist now realize, are vital factoys,in the ,growth of a man's hair. One scientist, himself bald, de- clares: "Less of hair is definitely a result of civilization and is rare among primitive people. In the 'future man may be quite hairless unless science can help him • to stave off and cure bald- ness." • Medical men are constantly ex- perimenting with\new cures for baldness. 0 n e doctor, after a series of experiments, tells us that •people who fear they are going bald should eat plenty of root crops. He says turnips, car- r o t s, radishes and onions all contain t h e salts required to stimulate the latent hair on balding heads, Some scientists are even claiming that' the playing of stringed instruments induces hair growth. It sounds fantastic, but in the United States a num- ber of experiments on partly- bald musicians is 'stated to have proved this. 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