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The Brussels Post, 1952-9-17, Page 3TO Calvert SPORTS COLUMN' 6/get 90,9040,0 3 • It was on a humid night in early July with St. Louis Browne and Cleveland , Indiana battling desperately in a low -scoring American League baseball game, that a ,slim why Negro was called from the St, Louis bull -pen, and rushed to the mound M eniergency. 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«hittingteam to score a run off him. Inning afer inning, he flung his pitching wizardry at the enemy. Baffled by hie 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 who like to sec a wrong righted. The wrong was this: Here Is a man' who was probably the finest pitcher of his time, and his time was long. But he had no chanceto prove it. Seems ;to. -tut we have heard of the, feats of "Old,Satch" ever since we started growing up, though literally that can't be true. Competent baseball men told ler for years that Paigewould burn up either big leegue, given the opportunity, At a We date in life, at an age when mot ballplayers are not good enough for minor leatfues, even Satchell Paige got his belated chance. For fame -came late to Satchell.° It was not until the twilight of his .amazing career that he was given n. chance to pitch in the big leagues -by Bill Veeek at Cleveland..T,gete, in 1948, he got a chance to pitch in his 'first, World' Series. You can. spend "'some 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 10scorelessgames 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 33. days, the year 'noun$'. "Sat'cll" probably did it: An,,emazing,flgure, and It'notable -addition to the list of those. who'prove that while life may begin at. 40,..comp titive.,life doesn't end there, in' sport, with eucb .exhibits as Willie Hoppe, lJersey Joe Walcott, Bob Fitzsimmons,' and Bill Cookroffered,on ilehait of the defence - Your comments and sugpesflens forthls column will be welcomed by limes Ferguson, e/o Calvert House, 431 Tones St., Toronto. Calot- DISTILLER'S' LIMITED AMHERSTEUltO, CNfMIO .. If the New York Yankees man- 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 poet of the credit must go to Billy Martin, For young Mr. Martin seems to be one of those "throw- backs" sten all too seldom these days -a ball player who plays not far money, but for the sheer love of the game. * * * Of course, be 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, fold 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 hal' * * * Casey Stengel has been high on Billy Martin right fromthe 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 - WITH THE HELP OF - TOBACCO, ELIMINATOR rsune BOOKLET and Teedmoniela. Write 5. W. ICING PHABMAC.AL CORP. LTD. )ox 673 London. Ont. cently, Arthur Daley had some in- teresting things to say about the yoelng infielder. * t * 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 him 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. t, * * * "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 them. But as long as the. team wins, what's the difference?" * * * . In many respects Billy the Kid is a throwback to the old -tine ball players, a snarling scrapper obsess- ed with the idea of winning. He's Tltelki7iielea'4°LJ i'piro Scotty Rob pulls his almost bruised head in just In Nate, The ball thuds Into; White Sox Chico Carrasquel's glove 'tbo'late , to tag ebsfon's Faye`Thorneberry Who stole second base, Plowettea Unplug" Snow. Filled 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 insnow and sand tests. irreverent, cocky and, on oceatrous," 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 Oaksbarely won, Billy came to his skipper fn 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 him. '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 hien again. 'Jonesey,' I say, 'You gotta protect me or I won't protect you. If you 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. "1 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 him, * * * But before that he tangled in wordy battles with Jim ,'Tarsale of the Red Sox until a certain remark compelled him, to, finish off Pierssll, in a brisk fist fight under the club- house...To Martin it was the insult supreme. "You fresh bustler,",taunted Pier- sall. Billy Martin is awfully fresh but 'he's' no bother. PARTING WISH Judge Jim Wallace, of the New York'Sepreme, Court, remembersI when two natives of County Cork occupied adjoining cells in the deth house. The dread morning arrived When Paddy was scheduled to be led to the electric chair.' T' c Gov- ernor had failed to grant a r,,-ricve, and Paddy knew his ease was hope- less, As the guards came to lead him down "tete last mile," his friend .Mike in the next cell strove des- perately to think of something cheering to say. At the last um - nicht, he waved his hand through the bars and called jovially, "Well, Paddy me boy, more power to yel" STRAISGP BUT TRUE' - Way Out: Following a series of rows with his landlady over his two cats, a retired 'civil servant at The Hague strangled the land- lady, hanged the cats, and gassed himself. Aeware Strangers: "Not every- one who enters this church has been converted. Please take care of your handbags, etc."— Notice . in a London church. All Clear? "fit is necessary for technical reasons that these war- heads should be stored with the top at the bottom and the bottom at the top, In order that there may be no doubt as to which is the. top and which is the bottom for storage purposes it will be seen that the bottom of each head has been labelled with the word top." —Extract from Admiralty instruc- tion. Dull Job: When a Sydney work- man yawned during working hours and dislocated his jaw, the judge ruled that it -was an industrial in- jury. .The job, he said, was so monotonous that the worker could not help yawning. Aenneeandalasnataixieum Pacts About Fish 1. If all the fish caught in the world had been equally divided last year, everyone on earth would have had about 27 pounds. The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization reached this cOnci,tsion, in a rddpert on world fish resotltces, Of an esti- mated 25 million tons of fish yield- ed annually by the world's seas and rivers, .the largest proportion —nearly a quarter—consists of the herring and similar species. 2. Asia (excluding the Soviet Union) is the world's largest fish - producing area with 48 per cent of the total. Europe is second with 24 per, cent, and the Americas third with,l7. 3, For the past six years United Kingdom scientists have been ex- perimenting with the mass produc- tion offishin a man-made sea, in the hope of bringing more variety to the tables of Britain and the Continent. They are trying to speed up Nature's cycle by fertilizing the sea -water with chemicals. Results have been dramatic. Some fish have grown at twice their normal rate, and sometimes - even more quickly, 4. The water in which the fish live is fertilized by the continual addition of nitrogen and phosphor- us, which cause the small sea planta on whit}, the fish feed to grow hi greater abundance.. In -the fertil- ized water fish reach a marketable size in three years instead of the normal six. 5. During the past few years there has been increasing concern about the danger of over -fishing. The old saying that as good fish are in the sea as ever came out of it is not true if each year too many fish are removed and too few left to breed and grow. 6. Thoughout this century great- er and greater effort has been re- quired to maintain the catches of the trawlers. Voyages have had to be pushed farther and farther towards the Arctic. 7. Scientists now say that this can only be explained by assuming that there is a. limit to the food in the sea for the fish, and therefore a limit to the fish population. Only when the fish are given a long respite— during wars — do they have time to breed and grow and make up for over -fishing. ' 9. In spite of the dangers of over -fishing, experts say future fish prospects are good because many countries are, rapidly increas- ing the number of mechanized boats in their fishing fleets, thus enabling them to fish farther afield. Having A Swine Time—Shirley Couch, 31/2 years ofd, Won't take her nine Poland China piglets to market- She's going to enter them in the baby swine beauty contest at the fair. Shirley was so excited over her nine -hour -old pets that she forgot to mention what community she is from: Milk And Honey The Perfect Foods The specialist shrugged his shoul- ders elequcntly. The patient with stomach trouble had refused the operation suggested and left the consulting -roost. 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 six months the patient felt a new man, no longer Leaving to spend eighteen hours a day in bed and leaving his wife to run their Mistimes, At•the, end of a year he was normal—end cured, Honey, load done the trick yet ogee again. Milk, Tao Honey .is Nature's perfect, food, one of her only two prodpcts In- , tended :solely, as food, Milk IS the other one1 Haney is manufactured. The hollep-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 tips she seals it in cells of the combs, and then it is safe for n thosjsaud years and ntoi'e; puri food you height say for all time. Its, main constituents arc 'dex- trose levulose, and sttcrose—grape, fruit, and cane sagars. It also ton tains, among other things,, copper, manganese chlorine, calcium, sul- phur, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, silica It -is hygroscopic—that is, it draws moisture from anything and everything with which it comes in contact, which is why germs can- not live in pure honey. It draws out the water on which tleey 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 leave used looney for the treatment of wounds for many years, and now it is an- nounced that one great English hospital is, usin honey exclusively. for the dressiest surgical wounds in its operating theatre. 'honey is the great energy -pro- vider, its sugars being absorbed in the bloodstream within 10 min- utes of being eaten or drunk in water. It is also a fine nightcap if a tcaspoonfel is taken in a cup' of hot water, since it induces sleep. Ft solution of honey and water in egpal parts will not freeze solid, but a similar sugar solution will, ;Because of this a mixture of honey anti water was uhtil recently used avert anti -freeze liquid in automo- bile radiators: 'The ancients were (illy aware of the virtues of honey, altd 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 CLA $IFiED MADVERTISING .... - 5119tnOAL eAulr OuJOite 11ARtlAtN Nate pf Drente turkey pqutta. While 1000)' last, three, four, Ave, ulx and seven weeks 5111.. Non -sexed, hens. Catalasue. 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Bout Canadian Price:— Delivered:— 11.40 Sheet, 110 Square, Building Materials, Las Gulndon, Quebr, CRESS BUNION SALVE—For ama5mg relief. Your Druggist sells CRESS. 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 Tengthy 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 bot water. 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