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The Seaforth News, 1955-04-14, Page 7E a 'Vert SPORTS COLUMN THE SUAUGHNESSY STORY — Fart 1 • ,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 m 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 five 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 theeat of television hadn't arrived. The League was solid, prosperous. AR 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 hckey club. Baseball heads listened 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 cone. 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 Yong° St., Toronto. Calvert DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTBURG, ONTARIO Valuable Painting Used As Target Nobody ever gave a certain picture hanging in the Hunting- don Town Hall more than a usual 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" afirrarely 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 theportrait of e 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. Bidding for the picttire began at $600, mounted quickly to $15,000. It was finally knocked down to Mr. Charles Wertheim- er for $30,000. A connoisseur of pictures was in the fish market at Bruges about thirty years a g o. While buying a pound of whiting, he noticed a faded picture of a middle-aged woman propped up against one of the posts of the fish -stall. "1'11 buy that if it's for sale," he said. casually. He got it free, the fish -seller being glad to get rid of it. Today the picture is known to art lovers as Jan Van Eyck's portrait of his wife. It became one of the glories of Bruges and even at the time of its discovery its value was estimated at. $225,000. Worst Locust Plague lila Over Century Locusts, sweeping in from the Sahara and devouring all that was green in their path, wrought great destruction on farmland in Morocco recently. It was the worst locust 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 oast spells so that their lands might be delivered from the flying plague. Huge fires 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 THIS IS SPRING?—The weatherman played a nasty trick on four-year-oldJean Whitehouse. A little girl expects a lot on the first clay of spring, but not snow, and that's why Jean is sitting so dejectedly on the steps of her home. SITTING BULL—"Polytechnic Bess Lad," just ❑ lad as bulls go, has learned to sit, a unique accomplishment among dairy animals, be traced to a few spots. Scien- tists this year are stepping up the campaign on the breeding grounds themselves. They are concentrating on exterminating locusts 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 African 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- cluding the water necessary in using it. Each bag of poison required eight gallons of water — 320,000 gallons altogether — besides 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 millions. In the Argentine, where lo- custs are active every year from January to March, mil- lions of pesos are spent yearly in fighting them. 'Planes spray the swarms with flames and poison gas. More than 50,000 tons of lo- custs have been wiped out there in a single campaign. Locusts in various parts of the world eat at least $45,000,- 000 worth of foodstuffs every year, it is calculated. 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 clear- ings. Sometimes called mountain - lions, cougars seldom 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 a child, graduating from grouse and duck to deer and cougar. She has many guns, in- cluding a shotgun, a 22 -calibre rifle, and a 65 -year-old twin barrel .450 Express big -game rifle. Mrs. Yates, her husband James, and 16 -year-old son Douglas, live on the "Cougar Run," a circular path followed by cougars each year. It starts and ends on the breeding - grounds in the centre of Van- couver Island. Mr. Yates leaves the hunting to his wife. He says: "She has such a passion for cougar kill- ing, that she will get up in the middle of the night and start out with a flashlight." PERSUADER Back in the days when out- laws were ravaging the country, they terrorized conductors into letting them ride free on the trains. One day the leader of n gang boarded a coach, pulled out his gun, and to the frightened ticket -taker proclaimed: "There's my' fare!" "O,K"" the conductor meekly replied. But he slipped up to the bag- gage car and provided himself with a sawed-off shotgun. In a little while he was back at the side of the recalcitrant passeng- er. Poking the business end of the weapon into the ribs of the bad man, he gently announced: "All right, I'm ready to punch your ticket now." The outlaw paid. Still Looking For Cure For Onildness Science is waging a hair- raising new war on an enemy which has worried men for cen- turies baldness. Experiments now taking 'place may lead one .day to bald heads becoming things of 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 is being given to the value of food and diet which, scientist now realize, are vital factors in the growth of a man's hair. One scientist, himself bald, de- clares: 'Loss 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. O 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 bf experiments on partly - bald musicians is stated to have proved this. But it was also found that cor- net and horn players lose their hair quickly. Why? Because the physical strain of blowing affects the circulation and deprives the roots of the hair of their due supply of blood. Radio a Equipped Dogs Radio -equipped police patrol - cars have proved invaluable in the pursuit and capture of wrongdoers. 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