The Brussels Post, 1961-05-11, Page 3MANTLE OF ARABIA — Like an Arab shiek surveying the de Bert,
Mickey Mantle beats the heat during New York Yankees
bosebaljtowel, practice before first game of the season. His turban. a
He Made The. Great
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Every boxing fan knows that
the Mlle lime the immortal John
Ls Sullivan ever tasted defeat
s the time he lost his heavy-
weight championship to Jame
4, Corbett. Yet, this is the story
of another defeat waned by
the great John le., one that
doesn't appear in the record
books, writes Bill Stern in
''Sports."
The incident T have in mind
took place in Boston in the year
1999, when the entire nation was
toasting the mighty John L. Stile
livan for his successful 75-round
title defense against Jake Kil-
rain, As was his custom Sullivan
celebrated by goings. from bar-
room to barroom, boasting that
he was the strongest man in the
world and challenging everyone
in the place to fight,
One day, John L, blustered in-
to one of his neighbourhood
hangouts end proceeded to go
through his usual routine. First
he downed a few drinks, Then,
pounding his chest, he shouted
at the top of his voice, "I'm the
greatest fighter in the world
and if there's anyone who thinks
he's better, let him stand up
and fight me. I 'can lick any men
in the world!"
A deadly silence fell over the
crowd. Not a man stepped for-
ward end a boastful grin spread
over the face of the champion.
Suddenly, a voice spoke up teem
somewhere in the rear of the
room. The stunned crowd turn-
ed around. There stood a little
man with, gray hair, The crowd
fell back amazed as the little
man approached the mighty
champion.
At first, it seemed as though
he must surely be kidding the
great pugilist. He was so small,
so slight in build, that it was in-
credible that he should be seri-
ously challenging the strength
and the skill of the mighty John
L.
"John L. Sullivan," he' said,.
"I'm sick and tired of your
bragging and your bullying. It's
about time somebody told you
to shut up and I think it better
be me."
With that, the man hauled off
and slapped the' world's heavy-
weight champion across the face.
The stunned Sullivan just stood
there, a red mark visible on his
tanned face.
The crowd gasped! They ex-
pected to see the little man torn
to pieces 'by the champion. But,
strangely enough, Sullivan just
continued to stand there, his
hands hanging at his sides, The
great champion made not a sin-
gle move toward his tormentor.
The little man looked disgust-
edly at Sullivan. Then, to the
utter amazement of the crowd,
he turned sharply on his heel,
walked out the. door, and dis-
appeared into the night,
It `Was only then that the
amazed crowd started to whis-
per. People were asking ques-
tions on all sides. The whisper-
ing turned to rumbling . . and
the rumbling turned to jeers
and shouts, "So you're the great
John L.?" — "I thought you
could lick any man in the
MERRY MENAGERIE
"Ha, ha! They'll think they've
hooked a whole school of fish!"
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cigarette, In a way lilted do-
ing it because of the fact that
nobody throws things et ye. Perry
even asked me to, become his
Ise:tele-sr, but this saline, business;
melses me More rim rvour than te.
hell game. To tell you the truth,
I dint think I'll do ten yersis of
etudy to became n 1..!,reat
On this special ermine up, I'm
not sure if I shoulda said no, or
they slateulda said no."
The phone rang as he rambled;
and it proved to be an NBC rep-.
rEsentative. It seems there was
a conflict between reheareels for •
the dune Powell speeial ends
Casey's commitment to throw
out the first ball on April 2? at.
Los Angeles's Wrigley Field.
"We'll just have to start this
here rehearsal at 5 in the morn-
ceuee I'm ..,gonna throw the
ball out," barked Stengel. There
were sounds of acute distress on
tee other end of the line, but
Stengel hung up. "Five o'clock
in the morning—that's about the
time these actor fellas go to
bed," he snorted and gazed dis-
consolately at a pile of papers
on his banking desk.
get lots of mail from people
interested in baseball—I'm pulls
ing for the Yankees this year,"
lie raid. "Now about my bank-
ing activities. I'm not keeping
books. You might say I'm a
good-will man. I get around to
numerous places. This here bank
is growing, We just opened up.
a new .subsiduary (sects"
How about his use of :Steng-
close in banking affairs? "I only
use this here Stengelese you eel-
las talk about when you're ask-
ing for loans," explained Casey
as he casually blew smoke ceil-
ing-ward. "If ya come in for a.
deposit, I'm much more interests
ed in ya—there won't be any
trouble at; all understanding nee."
TEARS GONE — Gary Hedrick,
shed tears when his reserve
grand champion calf, "Boo
Boo," was sold to be slaughter-
ed. Boy and calf attachment
aroused such sentimenit that
the food firm which had pur-
chased "Boo Boo" decided to
give the animal back to Gary.
Now smiles replace earlier
tears.
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catacombs that lead to the saddl-
ing area.
Frank. Wright, waiting with
Plenty Papaya, greeted him. "I'd
like you to try something,"
Wright said, "She doesn't seem
to like the whip, Weitied you
hand-ride her?"
"Sure," Gilbert said. "Rode a
horse like that for Mr Yowell
once,"
As Gilbert climbed al:Coard the
tilly for the first time, she snort-
ed and shook naturally. The joc-
key steered her easily onto the
track and, a few minutes before
4 3, Plenty Papaya, listed on the
Lashing tote board at 39-1, mov-
ed to the starting gate with seven
other two-year-olds.
The five-furlong race was off
at 2.59. Coming out of post posi-
tion six, Plenty, Papaya started
nervously, then veered abruptly
toward I h e outside. Gilbert,
clutching the reins, pulled the
filly in, Suddenly enraged, she
bolted toward the inside, straight
at the aluminum guard rail. An
instant before Plenty Papaya
rammed the rail, Gilbert slipped
from her back, but the momen-
tum carried hith into the rail.
He tumbled to, the ground, un-
conscious, bleeding from the left
ear. The filly, not badly hurt,
bounded away.
A few minutes later, on the
way to a local hospital,e Roy
Gilbert, the victim of multiple
skull fractures, died:"
In the jockey's room, the plug.
pong and pool gashes stopped,
and the boys, little men with
big jobs, quietly slipped into
fresh silks. At 3.28, the fifth race
at Aqueduct went off. From
NEWSWEEK.
A shipping friend of my fa-
ther's told me that if I wanted
to help him I should start at
once to earn my own living, arid
that if I egreed he would help
me to get a ,lob as office boy.
Accordingly, armed with a pair
of new kid gloves (bought before
the disaster) and letters of intro-
duction, l set forth.
My visit to the Baltic Shipping
Exchange, where I had the thrill
of hearing members "called" in
a stentorian voice, proved fruit-
less, because Mr, Sigismund
lVfendl much, regretted that the
vacancy for an office boy had
just been filled; but my visit to
a ship ane insurance brokers in
Crosby, Square proved successful.
The prieicipal of this long since
defunct firm looked at me and at
my kid gloves, and then asked
if I was prepared to sweep out
the office every morning, I re-
plied "certainly" with such con-
viction that he appointed me at
the prevailing wage of lOs Od per
week; (about $1.40), though
cleaning was not among my dut-
ies.
When I look back at those clays
in Crosby Square I am filled
with amazement, I was con-
stantly out delivering letters and
messages, and went daily to
Lloyd's. I never walked if I
could run, and learnt all the
short cuts through buildings
,,from one street to another. We
sometimes worked incredible
hours.
7
mails had always to be
caught, though letters were sel-
dom signed until the last mo-
ment, and had then to be copied
in an old-fashioned tissue letter
book. If we missed the late fee
post at the local office we had
to go the GPO, and if we missed
that the Newcastle letter's had to
be posted on the train at King's
Croes, We always started sharp
at 9 a.m., however late we were
the night before, and 3 p.m., not
1 p.m., was the closing time on
Saturdays.
To other office boys I must
have seemed a strange freak,
clad as I always was (at the.
instigation of my parents' friegd
and „prince of snob s, sJohn
Shrimpton) in a frock coat and
silk hat—the more so because,
owing to our, liberal supply of
them at home, I was able to fol-
low Joseph Chamberlain's ex-
ample and wear an orchid in my
buttonhole! But there is no
doubt that in those days it se-
cured me attention at the coun-
ters of other offices which, clad
more modestly, I might not have
received. — From "The Truth
About a Publisher," by Sir Stan-
ley , Unwire
The highest in Hi-Fi; Now we
learn the largest hi-fi set in the
world has 112 speakers in all and
its full volume—or blast—can be
heard twenty miles away.
Alarming news for homeowners
and landlords? Not at all—the
massing of *all these tweeters and
woofers was net designed for the
average home but for the testing
of missile components for the
Goodyear Aircraft Company.
However, we won't guarantee
that some hi-fi buff will not try
to equal this noise output. never came, the bear population
regarded the empty walks sadly,
and waddled back to their caves.
the Great Apes House,
gray-haieed Mickey Quinn, who
has worked at the 200 since he
was 12, was disturbed about his
charges, whom he regards as el-
most human.
"I don't know about those anis
mats in the rest of the places"
he said sadly, "but look at these
— how their lips are pursed,
Look at how tense they are "
He pointed to Oka, the 300-
pound gorilla he raised from in-
fancy in 1941 — sitting pitifully
in a corner, staring at the wall,
fingers in her eats, as though to
keep out the unpleasant silence.
Perhaps the most disconsolate
of all the animals was Suzie
an otter who loves children and
carries on lively conversations
with them in whistles, whisper s,
and moans. "She has the largest
vocabulary in the zoo," says the
attendant Vincent Nesor proud-
1•y, "Hut now, she'll hardly;;ilk
at: all. I try all day long, hut
hardly ever a word . . ."
The least concerned ol all the
zoo's residents seems to be ;he
oldest, Teddy the South Ameri-
can tortoise, a gift from Theo-
dore Roosevelt (whose name-
sake he is) in 19,14. Teddy was
taking the strike with the same
equanimity he has displayed
since Roosevelt changed his
M in cl ,about making hire into
soup on "the way home from an
expedition
HIGH c31.6 'IME A tightrope art differing from the circus
version sari-teddy nirly be a standard military operation.
Sapper (engineer) Charles Grayson of the British Army' disease
ails paelliort as he drives o Land Rover over IWO su.:pentled
Steel wiret df Port Iregcinfles Specicil outer wheels
hold the 3,60(5.pounci vehicle on a steady
f
The worst part of kicking a
man when he's down is that he
may get up.
The Ham Comes Out
On Casey Stengel
Smartly attired in dark gray
business suit, the bank vice pres-
ident tilted back comfortably in
his black leather chair. His of-
fice, lodged near the top of a
semi-floating staircase, was large
and plush, decorated with con-
temporary furniture, deep rugs,
and walnut paneling. There was,
however, one slightly jarring
note in the • scene—behind the
official's desk sat a huge potted
plant with a catcher's mitt em-
bedded in its branches.
"Now I don't know why I went
on this show," the hanker was
saying, "cause I wasn't gonna do
any more of this acting business
and then I met this producer and
this writer, both nice fellas, and
they persuaded n-fe to go on this
here script although I don't know
what they got on their minds
with this 'Young at Heart' bus-
iness: I met Jane Powell who is
a good-looking. girl, and that Art
Carney looks like lie could be
a pretty fair ballplayer and
could possibly be very good, so,
1 signed, you might say,"
lie Revised Standard Syntax,
what the vice president of the
Toluca Lake Branch of the Val-
ley National Bank in California
was talking about was the fact
that on April 28, Charles Dillon
(Casey) Stengel will go to bat
on a one-hour NBC variety spe-
cial, "Young at Heart," which
would also star Jane Powell and
Art Carts e y. Septuagenarian.
Stengel, who guided the New
York Yankees to ten pennants in
twelve years before he was forc-
ibly retired last fall, will tackle
a comedy skit in which 'he Will
play a sportscaster interviewing
"ballplayer" Art Carney, remi-
nisce a little about the 1920s
with the ebullient Miss Powell,
and, for the chef-d'oeuvre of the
evening, even dance a few steps.
Fos. Stengel, who has been
known to keel over in a mock
faint to protest the decision of
an umpire, the show will not
mark his acting debut. Last No-
vember he took a brief turn on
the NBC "Perry Coma Show,"
and even ad libbed a line during
sonic light banter with Coma
wheri the cue cards got shuffled
("This is evetI Worst than the
last game of the Series'"').
"you might say enjoyed that
Mathes,' he recalled At he lit A
Animals Long For
That Old Applause
Everyone knows that to have
a zoo you have to have animals;
but what few people realize is
that to have a proper zoo you
also have to have people. It
turns out to be a mutual, propo-
sition. Animals like to look at
people as much as vice versa.
What a zoo needs, therefore, for
the meagerest possible begie-
i8 one animal, and one per;
son for the animal to look at.
Naturally, the more animals, the
more eeople they need to keep
them amused,
Already deprived of mote
than 100,000 people to look et by
a strike that closed the gales
on Easter Sunday morning, the
2,984 denizens of New York
City's fathous Bronx Zoo proved
their feelings in ways ranging
from elephantine anger to utter
depression.
A skeleton stuff remained on
duty to tend their tenants, but
the animals reacted visibly to
the lack of audience.
Deprived of their peanut and
zeological package feed ,(t0 cents
a shot in slot machines at the
zoo), Dolly and Cutie (from In-
dia) and Sudaria and :Pinkie
(Africans) s h o 0 k the Elephant
House with their trumpeting:
they tore radiators front their
fixtures and threw hay around
like berserk harvesting an-
chines,
The seals, with no people to
clap their flippers for, lay mor-
osely on their rocks, or sta; ed
under water for' long periods.
Their only guests were seagulls
The lions, missing the sight of
people to lick their chops at,
were off their feed, .and the
tigers paced ceaselessly —like
caged tigere.
One of the camels looked as
though he'd walk a mile for a
person.
EXeopt for' the polar bears,
who kept cleaning themselves!
wistfully tot company I h t
Sudden Death On
A Race Track
His day beean early, while
the sun was still low and the
colts were playing in their
stalls, nickering for hay and
water and a chance to Tun. It
was only 6.30 one morning re-
cently, but Roy Gilbert, a slen-
der, peppery 22-year-old with
a close crop of brown hair,
roamed the barns at Belmont
Park, N,Y., talking ±acing with
Eddie Yowell, the trainer who
had made him into a winning
jockey, Gilbert loved the strong
smell of the barns and the idle
chatter of the grooms. "I'm go-
ing to be a jockey," he once
said, "or die trying."
Not far away, in another gees
lion of the Belmont barns, Frank
Wright, a personable, 'leathery
trainer, studied his horses One,
a bay two-year-old filly named
Plenty Papaya, was going to run
in the fourth race at nearby
Aqueduct that afternoon, Wright
Still had not named a rider for
the race, and a few jockeys'
agents stopped to see him. "My
boy's free for the fourth," each
offered. "Want to use him?"
"No, thanks," Wright said, "I
think I've got Gilbert,"
At almost the same moment,
Gilbert restlessly asked trainer
Yowell: "Want me to work Merry
Ruler?"
"No, let the exercise boy work
him," Yoevell said. Merry Ruler,
a fine three-year-old, finished
first in the Swift Stakes and the
Bay Shore last month, with Gil-
bert up, Before 1961, the jockey
had never won a stakes race; so
far this year, he had won four
in a row, One of eighteen chil-
dren in his family, Gilbert, from
London, Ky., was beginning to
blossom as a big-time rider.
Shortly before 8.30, Wright
sent a message to Gilbert's agent,
Cliff Carter. "I'd like yoUr boy
for the fourth," Wright said.
Carter agreed. Gilbert had no
other mounts scheduled before
the fifth race.
At 10, Wright inspected Plenty
Papaya. Her darn — Raise You
— once fell on a jockey and kill-
ed him, but Plenty Papaya was
a promising horse, full of run
in workouts, In her only pre-
vious start, she had gone off at
3-1, based on fast 'practice times,
But against competition, She had
refused to run and had finished
dead last. "Threw back her head
a lot when she got crowded,"
said Bob Ilssery, her first rider.
"But that's nothing unusual for
a green two-year-old," Since
then, she had trained with blink-
ers, Like most two-year-olds, she
was unpredictable, but now she
showed no bad, nor dangerous
habits.
By noon, Gilbert reported to
the jockeys' room at Aqueduct
and slipped into riding pants and
boots. Then he watched the
films of the ninth race from the
previous day. lie had won, 'after
finishing third, when stewards
disqualified the first two horsey.
"I gat lucky," Gilbert said,
After the movies, he checked
the daily list of mounts acid
iders, As he knew, he was tip
on Mortal Lock, one of Eddie
Yowell's horses, in the fifth race.
For the first time, he discovered
he was riding Plenty leapaya ;
During the first two eaces,
Gilbert played ping-gong with.
Willie Boland, a fellow Jockey.
Gilbert won, After, the second
race, Cliff Carter came in for a
chat. "Mortal Lock looks good,"
he said, Gilbeet, sipping coffee,
nodded. Neither agent nor boy
mentioned Plenty „Papaya
Then Gilbert began getting
dressed, "it's cold out," his valet
said, "'Better weer something
warm, " Under the blaelt s trid-
white silks of Happy Hill Farrn,
owner of Plenty Papaya, Gilbert
put on e rubber jacket ,and
turtleneck sweater. He adjust-
ed his plastic helmet and eteeil-
eti it with a black silk cap. At
2,45, he walked through the