The Seaforth News, 1960-08-04, Page 7Oldest Of Ail
Living Things
One of the most gigantic trees
its the world has been declared
in national relic at C'hembll, Mo-
a)a3nbique, East Africa. It is as
l adbab tree -"-• the same tree en
'which David Livingstone, the
(great missionary explorer, carv-
*d his initiate.
These strange trees are be-
S,teved by marry botanists to be
file oldest of all living things.
Some specimens have been de -
island to be at least 5,000 year's
told. The baobab grows immense-
ly broad without growing pro-
lortionately tall.
Its trunk often measures 30
gt. in diameter with a height of
only 60 to 70 ft., while its 60
tet. branches, each as thick as a
good-sized tree, sweep the
ground with their foliage.
One veteran baobab measures
95 ft, round the trunk and is
es youthful and robust -looking
es the suckers springing up
round it.
Another is so enormous that
!k was hollowed out a century
or so ago and used as a lock-up
ler native prisoners.
Many thousands of years ago
the baobabs were only found in
the tropical parts of Africa and
the neighbouring island, 1Vlacia-
sascar, but today they flourish
in most other hot parts of thea
world.
Before Route WaiS founded,
snore than 6,000 years age, the
baobabs were familiar sights in
Africa and North-west Australia,
The grotesque shapes they as -
ninth are sometimes frightening,
Some of the trees ase like vast
bottles, some resemble enormous
round rocks, some are like the
prehistoric animals that prob-
ably browsed on their branches
But these ancient trees are
snore than botanical marvels.
Their many uses make therm
universal providers" for na-
tives.
The be:obab produces a large
f r u i t often called "monkey
bread", from which a cooling
drink containing citrate of marn-
nesia is obtained.
In Africa the great leaves 01
the baobab are pulverized into
loo which the natives mix with
other food to diminish exces-
give perspiration. A sweet per -
lune is given off by the large
white flowers.
The tree's green and gloss,,'
bark has medicinal properties.
Natives weave material from the
bark fibres. The wood is too soft
lo be formed into timber, but
it is so easily cut that homes
up to 50 ft. square are con-
structed in the trunks.
West African natives found
that the baobab has the peculiar
property of being able to pre-
serve organic matter from decay.
They used to hollow out a
trunk and hang inside the bodies
of executed criminals who were
denied burial. These became
perfectly mummified without fur-
ther attention.
Q. .How can I remedy a rig
whose corners persist in turning
tap?
A. A good remedy is to sew a
piece of stiff canvas underneath
these recalcitrant corners --
which will not only keep them
down, but will also help to pro-
long the life of the rug.
AU REVOIR — Jockey Pat Smithwick desperately tries to stay
with his mount, Gem Ruby, after the last hurdle at the Refugia
Steeplechase at Belmont Park,
Modern Tennis
Stars Lack Glamour
"Where are the big tennis per-
sonalities today?" — that's the
sort of remark overheard at
Wimbledon this year, and, in-
deed, for the past few years.
Somehow the moderns haven't
the magic appeal of great stars
';ke Bill Tilden, Fred Perry,
Jack Crawford — and, of course,
the "Four Musketeers": Jean
Borotra, Henri Cochet, Jacques
Brugnon, and Rene Lacoste,
It is over thirty years since
they captured the hearts of
Wimbledon crowds, best their
deeds are still fresh after all
this time.
Cochet, in particular, was the
hero of what must be one of the
most exciting final stages in
the history of Wimbledon. We can
only guess how lie would fare
.against the atomic services of to -
days "power -house" players, but
his uncanny positioning and skil-
fully placed return shots carried
him to the championship with
victories over the hard hitting of
Big Bill Tilden and the varied
game of his own compatriot.
Borotra.
The miracle was that in each
rase he triumphed after being
two sets clown and at match
point in the third,
Personally, I find it hard to
decide which was the greater
performance. Looking back, we
have the advantage of knowing
how the matches ended, But try
to imagine we are mingling
with the crowds at Wimbledon
on those sunny days of June,
1927.
Borotra was the holder of the
men's singles title, but there
was considerable doubt whether
he could retain it against the
challenge of Big Bill Tilden, the
American giant who had won in
1920 and 1921 and was making
his first appearance at the All -
England club's new headquar-
ters,
Big Bill smashed and volleyed
his way through all the opposi-
tion before the semi-final, in
which he was drawn against a
young Frenchman, lean, wiry,
and barely half his size, Henri
Cochet had not yet reached his
peak, and few thought he could
THOMAS JUTJUMPS HIMSELF -- Happy John Thomas, right,
watches 'ss officials confirm his high jump of 7 feet, 31inches
during pl•e',Iympic trials. If the jump is officially recognized, it
will make Thomas the all-time high•jump star to date, without
Question
stand up to the terrific pace
Tilden would set.
Tilden tore him to shreds dur-
ing the first set, It was a su-
perb exhibition of tennis, but as
a match was farcical. Cochet's
quick anticipation enabled him
to get the ball back occasionally,
but usually it had flashed past
him before lie could get his
racket into position.
In a few minutes he was al
ready one set down, at 6-2. The
second went the same way, at
6-3, and the crowd began to
drift away as the massacre con-
tinued in the third. This time
it looked even worse. Tilden
swept through to 5-1, and Co-
ehet's Wimbledon dream looked
about to fade in the biggest
fiasco of his career writes a ten-
nis expert in "Tit -Bits,"
I can think of no logical ex-
planation for what followed
other than that Tilden, always
a gr eat showman, decided to
round off the match with some-
thing the crowd would remem-
ber, and over -reached himself.
The American launched smash
after smash. But in his eagerness
for the kill he surrendered his
accuracy, Now Cochet's racket
was always there to stop his
passing shots; when one did get
by it went out of court. The
game Tilden had intended to
take at love went against him,
So did the next, and the next.
The crowds returned to watch
this amazing transformation, and
when Cochet took the next game
to level the set the cheer was
almost as great as if lie had
won. Tilden had gone complete-
ly to pieces. In those four games
he had won only one point, and
new here was Cochet, playing
from the baseline, blocking his
shots and returning them with
uncanny accuracy. The French-
man took the set at 7-5 •— six
games in m row to the man who
had been on the brink of hu-
miliating defeat!
Now it was Cochet who held
the initiative, He went ahead
in the fourth set, staved off a
brief challenge at 4-4, and tool:
the next two games to be level
at two sets all.
The final set was a mockery
but of a different kind from
the first, Tilden had recovered
much of his accuracy, but Co-
chet was teasing hint with deli-
cate returns, sometimes dropped
short to tempt him into a fatal
smash. The American was not
quite done, and in factled at
first, but Cochet soon caught
him and went ahead to 5-3,
Now the positions were re-
versed. At 40-15 against him Til-
den produced a Cochet-like drop
shot to save the match point,
but he ended the next rally by
slithering into the net. Show-
man to the end, he pretended
s to strum it as if it were a harp.
The tune must have been the
Tilden Swan Song.
The final, between Cochet and
Borotra, was not so obviously
dramatic because' there was not
such a contrast in playing styles.
Borotra took the first two sets
at 6-4, 6-4, but either of them
could have gone the other way.
The turning point came when
in the eighth game of the third
set with Cochet leading 4-3, Bor-
otra just failed to reach an
acutely angled shot across the
court. That miss put Cochet
ahead at 5-3, and he took the
set. Borotra led 3-1 in the fourth
but then faded, and Cochet tool[
that to level the match.
So once again the stage was
set for a dramatic finish. It
seemed Borotra must win when
he got to 5-2 and match point,
y et he lost the game. In the
next he had -- and lost — rive
match points.
An extraordinary incident
happened here which lost the
Bounding Basque - as Borotra
was called -- his title, At one
match p din 1 Cochet shaped
awkwardly in returning the ball,
Borotra• thought it was a double
hit and that he had therefore
won,. He tore off his beret and
ran up to the net to receive
his victim's hanclsha.ke — and
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then heard the umpire give the
point against him.
Borotra lost more than the
point in that moment, His con-
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his will to win. He served a
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RUNNING WILLIE DOWN — Frank Moizone of the Red Sox tags Willie Mays of the Giants in
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Watching aro umpire Tom Gorman and catcher Yogi Berra of the Yanks,