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4J S The greatest tennis player of all time,
in the estimation of many eXINtle, passed
in the degth of a man whose late years
were unfortunately shadowed. Wether
Big Bill Tilden was, the greatest, es eo
many claim, will always be a point of
contention, as' 'superlative ratings
must be. But there is no question be was the greatest .show-
man of all the tennis stare,
Tilden was a fiamboyent, swaggering egere in spots 13ig
Six of the Golden Era of sport, the Roaring Twenties, 'Tack
Dempseye Bobby Jones, Babe Ruth, RedGrange,Walter „Beget'
and Tilden were figures such as are never likely tqfteace
the sport scene again, certainly not at one tinie.
And none was a greater snowinae than 'Tilden. Even in the
rnest important circumstances he could not overcome an
Session that ruled him, a desire to see if he eetild give the
other fellow a handicap and still beat him.
' Perhaps the most conapic,:instaille in which this sheer
• gamble came to the surface was when Tilden was playing a'
Davis Cup match with the, Japaneseteam member Shimicleu--
..e fine player, too.
Tilden, apparently through deliberate design,' in the, Opi-
nion of experts who saw the match, allowed "Shimmy" to
'vin the first two sets and to get within match point of the
third set •before turning on the heat.
'Then lie began Ming in cannonading fashion, and 'Shine
may" lost that third set and the next two as well, sintering
defeat in a match that had seemed already Wen. " The set
scores were 5-7, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2, 6—L •
Tilden dui the same thing in another Davis Cup match,
but this time it was done in a fit of pique. That was in 1923
and the Attetrallan team, evae the cllallenging group.. The
matches were played at FotIlM,
est
s:
John 1awls end ,James O. Anderson were the Aus•
tralian aces. In,.a "Singles Match, after winning the first set,
Tilden made a splendid play in the second set. His return
went close to the base line. The linesman called if "in." This
point won him the set.
The crowd booed the linesman's decision. That irked the
sensitiyeeeTilden. But his anger took k peculiaietivist. Instead
of turning inan-aaraVorifir to beat the Australian nuacklY,
he deliberately threw the next set to his opponent,' 64-1. It
was his way of responding to the crovitdIe booingielle deliber-
eetely handicapped himself in order to sleow his- conteriiit for
the erowd end, perhaps_for his_ epponeet
Then he cue loose. ilel-paniedelireverYthing iie Wade ire,
' efon the fourth set'and the rnatch•in decisive fashien. •
A skeet showman a treineudou*. tennis player,, he made.
efinierice tennis -conscious in the.'20es,-Velieri the game was far
lees popular than .*ow. That he could command attentionein
,sueli an erg, when sportdom was.populated bY giants, speaks
highly .of his qualities. - • • • •
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flanks'. Then they began to drink.
The English visitor walked to
the water's edge, scooped up the
water and drank. It was salt.
The stockman to whom he re-
counted this extraordinary story
of sheep drinking salt -water re-
mained nonchalant about it Pa-
tiently, he explained that the
sheep were drinking fresh water
which had welled up in the sea.
The sheep •whq apparently ,
drank salt -water made the
world's headlines sixty years
ago. They also led. to the dis-
covery of a great sub -artesian
basin of fresh water in South
.Australia.
Nature's Reservoir
In remote ages there were
large depressions on Eyre's Pen- *
insula in South Australia. These
great hollows filled with sand
and became a reservoir, which
to -day holds seven -and -a -half
thousand million gallons of wa-
ter. This water is pumped to the
surface and used for irrigation
and the watering of stock.
The South Australian basin is
one of a number of .such regions
in Australia—one of them, the
Great Artesian Basin, lies under
600,000 square miles of the coun-
try —more than one-fifth of the
entire continent. The daily flow
from these artesian basins has'
been estimated at about 400 mil-
lion gallons. The quality of the
water is usually fairly good.
Much of the rain that tells on
Australia sinks through the soil.
till It reaches an impervious
rock layer. It runs along the top
of this, perhaps some hundreds
of feet below the soil, and even-
tually comes up as a spnng.
Off the eastern coast+ of Aus-
tralia fresh water wells up from
suliterranean springs and is often
hauled up in buckets by the
crews of ships.
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Diver' Dtscovery
Natives of some of the South
Sea Islands dive for, 1,11Mi• fresh
drinking water. They plop in,
with hellelecd gettrcla, and, kick
their way down to the bottom
of the sea. They hold the necks
1 94 'tie &nets ,Neveee thbubbling
spring till their are full.
Tit's Id- lila 1114„644 frtr 11111r4
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the Atlantic cost of America.
This, too, cniA4Stfreirriukenediene
esspriegs. Whenthe, freele .water
) 4740%9 Ith9 , 1.ppt,1 ,seeewats3elyeleieb
is bo1,
wvfieerma point, le.treeees
niitlAic eT."ya, -b--144 ong, Aighter,
rises to tlfC'''*ebiltecn. 7 ••cte
emieltifteventantitiet pf :fetish Wit-
teneeteefetteneeRetile ' alleilins of
leege rivere. Omer a million cu -
151e fieVot **nig, per second flOW
7I1feM the Atnitecineinto the sea,
t"."Tleiti' haeASeetrifentiebe-and drunk
,—,-ths far as two leundred miles
from the -shale,
It is a regular practice of some
ships to stock up with fresh wit -
ter, off the mouth of the Arne -
Me
Black Samson
Au entinielaetle weight -lifter
was strolling past a playground
When he sew a fourteen -year-
old boy seize a block of concrete
and heave 1,1, abOve his head. The'
movement WAS performed with
a style that sometimes takes
years to acquire, The weight -lift-
er inyited the boy along to his
gyp end John :Davis. was IntkeT
doced to the sport he now demi.
epees,
Soon Joh 4 was Biting Weights
far beavieKthan himself, and the
collectienf firet-place medals
on TVs Mantelsholfigrew steedi/IY.
A rnunupcturer 01 strength
equiprifent obtained a sebolar-
ship in Philadelphia for him, and ,
still rnoiv 'Weight -training fol-
lowed. -
In 1938, seventeen -year-old
Davis performed the phenomenal
feat o/ reducing his weight of
194 pounds by 14 lbs. in order
to fill' the! Place.Of an injured
American lightelepa vy weight-
lifter.
Eeenthough he.was weakened
• by this effort, he still managed
to capture the world title with d
speqtaeulay total of 815 pounds
• for three successive lifts.
, Russian Rumours
• The .web hampered Davis' ca-
eeee,,and it wasn't until 1950
• that he was back in his prime.
The attnesphere was charged
exeitement at the , world
• championships that year. The
.Reeseiens.spread the remota- that
Kutsenko, their heavy -weight
Chainpion, could raise an un-
• believcble 1,019 pounds in three
lifts.
• Kutsenke announced that he
would ,res, 303 pounds. (The
athletes perform three different
lifts: press, clean and jerk, and
a snatch.)
Davis calmly pressed 319
pounds and snatched 325 at the
second attetnpt.
He admitted that his knee just
touchedethe floor the first time,
although, no one else saw it. As
a einale he clean and jerked 375
pounds, making a total of 1,01.9
pounds: • • •
It was exactly the weight men-
tioned in the Russian rumour
meant to scare him. ,
• No Danger • ' •
One day John Davis hopes to
make a lift in excess of 1,200
pounds, an achievement equal to
the sought-after four -minute
mile. Normally dressed, he hard-
ly looks the picture of a weight-
lifter, but stripped, his giant 220 -
pound physique ripples with
huge packs of muscles. ' —
Davis scorns the role of strong-
man exhibitionist, although 'he
has torn thick chains and bent
crowbars in private,
He has already been offered
citizenship of many lands, and. a
Mohaniinedan country gave the -
impression that it would throw
in some dancing girls as well.
• Rightly, Davis is annoyed with
those who exaggerate the dan-
gees of weight -lifting. Research
has proved that no sport except
ping-pong can show such a low
percentage of injuries.
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So realistic were the antics of
sea lions splashing their way
through the course of a 3-1) film
that John Reynolds, ap interes-
ted viewer, could actually feel
the spray from the water being
blOwn on his face. Even the
special glasses he wore to watch
the film were covered with a
light, watery mist, The reality
was almost unbelievable, until he
reeved out of his seat and dis-
covered a couple Of boys in the
' front row sheeting Off water pis-
tols at the audience, •
Day' $ Work—Ciev el a n d Indian slugger Al Rosen (centre) crosses
home plate at the Yankee Stadium in New York after hitting
his season's 16th homer with' two mates aboard. At left is Larry
Doby, next Indian to bat, while Bobby Avila (right) offers
his congratulations after being batted in. The Yankee catcher is
Yogi Berra.
A week or so ago many thou-
sands of the citizens of Chicago
turned up at Wrigley Field, part-
ly to see a ball game and partly
to pay tribute to a character who,
at an age when most ball -tossers
arsairsing clead arms and mem-
ories 'SIDI' inanaees to do a pretty
faitoatieq:If4mdifdd..diitY: •
• • •
rehat.ali6r di'diiea to is,
Of course, Dutch Leonard who
admits to 43 years — not go, old
as the One and only Satchel Paige,
but still a remarkable age for
an active pitcher. , •
• * 5 *
.This durable Dutchman goes
right on -working, in spite
of Father Time, chiefly because
of the simple -device of throwing
baseballs with his knuckles ra-
ther than his fingers. For some
reason this 4yle of pitching
seems to require, hut little wear
and tear on the heaver's physi-
cal equipment.
* a a
The Cubs, who acquired Dutch
sometime in 1949, might have
saved themselves 20 years of
waiting for their bull pen stal-
wart: During 1929, a year mete-
wortby in 'Other respects, young
Dutch Leonard hitchhiked to
Chicago from Auburn and
promptly applied to the Cubs for
a tryout. At the time no one con-
nected with the Wrigley Field
outfit seemed interested, so the
pitcher settled down to reaching
his destination by a more circuit -
out route. He finally got there, 12
railroad -stops and 20 years later.
*
In between Dutch had quite a
career•for himself in the Ameri-
• can League. Be was picked on sbt
All-Star teams there, being the
winning pitcher in the 1943,ganae,
Casey Stengel had helped to
make all of that possible by get-
ting rid 01 Dutch alter the 1936.
season. That was during Sten -
gel's d a r k, Brooklyn period,
sometbing the winner of lour
straight American League pen -
He Trains--13rooklyn Dodger, Roy Campanella, believes ID"train-
ing" at home as Well as on the diamond. Seen above, he works
on equipment for one of his many model trains in his home.
•
nants does not talk about much
these days. .
* . te.
Such success as the scholarly
Leonard has enjoyed with his
• knuckleball is attributable to an -
ether American League manager.
131.11. Richards did time with
• Leonard at Atlanta' soon after
Stengel let the. pitcher tgo,-and
it was under Richards' handling
that Dutch really got the' hang
-of throwing the knuckler. Rich-
• ards caught the baffling pitch, or
a:ether he 'stoically stayed. with it
-where less courageous catchers
would have given it up as a bad
job.
• -
Ult„imately both Richards and
his knuelde-throwing buddy got
back up to the big leagues'AVhere
Dutch promptly repaid his bene-
factor by closing him out o/ a
World Series. That came on the
final day of the 1944 season when
Leonard, then pitching for Wa-
shington, shut out Richards and
the Detroit Tigers to enable St.
• Louis to squeak by into first
place, Richards had only a year
to wait, though, both he and the
Tigers being participants in the
winning 1945 series over the
• Leonard -less Chicago Cubs.
Since going to the Cubs, Dutch
has won his way erne a seventh
All-Star roster. He set a club
record last season by appearing
in 45 garnet and finishing 35 re-
lief job's.
Because of the way1i
' e works
nOw it seems unlikely Dutch will
reach his goal of winning 200
games in the majors. As Of June
• 30 he was 10 games away, but
being primarily a once ;Awn •or'
• three-iening relief ...maxi:elle usu-
.
alit is not around enough
10 ecome involvecleinemeny de-
cisions. Last year, aillibilgb he
worked 67 innings, Dutch had
only a 2-2 won -lost record._
Neverthelest'-he 'she'd/1i be
around helping the Cubs 1 or
some" years: When he warms up
the knuckler in the bull pen it
still takes two catchers to -hold
him.
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