Zurich Herald, 1957-06-27, Page 7Likes Williams but
Not Rabbit Ball
Ted Williams, says Ty Cobb,
is one of the nicest fellows he
over met, a boy with -a tremen-
dous heart and a healthy, down-
to-earth outlook an life.
So said the greatest player in
the history of baseball, at Kan-
sas City• for an old-timers' night
before a game between the Red
Soar and A's.
"There has been an attempt
in the past to build up a sort
of feud between Williams and
me," began the man whose re-
cords still dominate the Little
Red Book. "But anything in that
vein written in the newspapers
or sent out over the radio is
most unfair and entirely incor-
rect."
"I remember the first time 1
ever met Ted. It was before a
World Series game between the
Yankees and Dodgers. Grant -
land Rice' •and I were walking
up a ramp and 'Grant' spotted
Ted ahead of us. When Rice in-
troduced us Ted asked me if
I could teach him how to hit
to left field. I said I couldn't
teach him, but I could tell him
how I did it.
"Well, the next day — and I
still don't know how they got
any part of the story, because
they didn't get it from Rice —
a story carne out that when I
tried to show Williams show to
flit to left field, he popped off
and belittled me, as well as all
old -times. It wasn't true. I have
talked with him two or three
times since and he has always
been just as nice to me as any-
one could be."
Cobb was told that Williams
has been hitting to the left side'
more than ever this season, one
of the reasons his average has
been over or around the .400
mark. "I figured Ted loses about
20 base hits a year because they
shift on him," Ty said. "In one
game alone I saw him hit three
line drives right at the second
baseman, who was playing in
short right field. But as I've
laways told him, he can break
it up if he hits to the opposite
field. Bab Ruth did. The Babe
would even bunt when they
shifted on him.
"I'm glad to hear Ted has been
going to left more. That's
111 he ever needed to be one of
the greatest. He has all the
rest."
Cobb told how a California
writer had called him on the
telephone a f ter Cleveland's
Herb Score had been hit with
a line drive. "The fellow wanted
me to blame night .ball for
Score's accident, but I couldn't,"
he went on. "How can you rap
something that has done so
much for baseball — that makes
it possible for the working man
to go out to the park rafter
working hours ?
'The one thing I don't like
about the modern game is the
lively ball. It has taken away
the value of the single run and
eliminated the smart, scientific
game. The low score, close
game was a thrilling thing to
watch.
"I often wonder what Larry
Lajoie would have done against
this lively ball," Ty said,
saniling. "He had a wonderful
Igtroke, like Williams, and would
almost tear the legs off the third
baseman, even with the dead
ball."
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emoGi'1es Of Th
se P Ivey Candies
From our home on Metro-
politan Avenue, it was only a
skip and a hop to the store. You
never stuck to the sidewalk,
however, for it was far more
fun to walk along the gutter
and break tar bubbles. The
scorching summer sun formed
them in soft patches of tar
along the edge of the road.
Some had beautifully curved,
shiny black convex surfaces as
large as a half dollar. One poke
with a stick would release the
trapped water, a sight that
never failed to please. (Just
why, I ane now at a loss to
state.)
Breaking bubbles prolonged
'the trip and your anticipation,
but if you broke every bubble
along the way, you could still
reach the store in less than ten
minutes. When you came to the
corner of Metropolitan and
Westminster, you crossed into
the center of the street and en-
tered the little park that cre-
ates an oasis of green.
The grass was a bit shabby to
be sure; the young oaks al-
though resplendent in their green
garb usually had a broken low-
er limb or two, and the cross -
paths were rocky, but it was a
great spot just the same. Many
a game of mumblety-peg. had
been played on the turf; many a
broken jacknife blade resulted
from striking a rock that prior
desultory probing had failed to
locate.
Directly across from the up-
per end of the park, stood a
large duplex house. One corner
room had been used as a gro-
cery for as long as I can re-
member and it is probably so
occupied today. As you entered
'the door, the penny candy coun-
ter with its sloping glass front,
spotted with the semi -transpar-
ent impressions of small noses
and sticky fingers, was at the
left. As often as not, the room
was empty, for the owner lived
in an apartment above and be-
hind the store. A small window
in the rear wall opened into his
kitchen. When the bell over the
door jangled, a face would. ap-
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pear, and soon he — or she -
would enter from a hallway at
the right.
Time spent waiting for Mr.
se Mrs. Pourer was never
wasted. You had a great array
of candy to look over, and if
more than one penny was yours
to spend, many difficult deci-
sions to make, compounded by
the numbers of coppers involv-
ed. I knew the contents of that
case by heart and the precise
location of each item; -but this
never seemed to lessen the mag-
nitude of the problem.
There were many factors to
be weighed. Some candies were
three for a cent, such as the
fragrant green mint leaves 'we
all liked, others such as Boston
Baked Beans were measured
out in a small wooden bean -
pot, and quite a number of deli-
cious candycoated peanuts were
yours for a cent.
Long strips of jet black lico-
rice were a great favorite and
probably gave you as much
value for a penny as any item
in the case. The real licorice
was great, but I recall that the
red and green items that as-
sumed the shape of licorice
whips had a taste that left much
to be desired.
If memory serves me correct-
ly, an all -persuasive odor of
pickle lingered in the vicinity
of the candy counter. It carne
from an ornate jar, once used
for candy, that stood on top
of the counter. A whole pickle
was five cents; a generous slice
was a mere three pennies.
Pickles and I have never been
great friends, but I'll readily
admit that a candy counter can
only be the real thing if you
can sniff pickle smell around it.
Closing my eyes and scanning
from left to right, I'd say the
line-up in the Pomer candy
case went something like this.
First carne mint juleps, a
tangy candy that was two for
a cent and had a flavor that
made them dangerous things to
eat in a classroom. Any teacher
could detect the smell of a mint
julep, or the green leaves, at a
good half mile. Or at least so
it seemed.
Next in the row came non-
pareils, the little chocolate
wafers with the white jimmy.
Next came bull's-eyes, • which
require no description. If you
have never eaten a bull's-eye,
yeu've never spent a childhood
in Massachusetts. Maple sugar
cakes carne next, followed close-
ly by little tin dishes complete
with a small tin spoon. The dish
was filled with a soft creamy
mixture that usually proved to
be tougher than the spoon. You
wound up scraping the sweet
from the tin with your teeth,
but this was considered all part
of the game.
One of my favorite candies
was a small bar about two
inches long, one-quarter inch
square, a muddish brown in col-
or and rather coarse in texture.
Its flavor was a bit on the minus
side, but its name made up for
all deficiencies. With typical
Yankee forthrightness it was
called a mud bar, and it was
worth a cent any day. In fact,
I'd gladly pay almost any sum
for one right now.
You can't write about penny
candy and omit such items as
the small candies which came
fastened to a narrow strip of
white paper. Memory fails to
produce a name, but the, amount
of paper consumed along with
the candy kept this item from
being held in high esteem by
my set.
Along the bottom of the case
were such delicacies as imita-
tion ice cream cones, Mary
Janes, Bolsters, and small wax
bottles which contained a sweet
liquid. These "candies" gave
you double value. You bit off
the top of the bottle, drank the
liquid, and then chewed the
container until the wax crum-
bed to dust. Not one of my
favorites at all.
Next to the wax items came
the candy peanuts and bananas,
and just past them the candy
which every youngster liked —
old fashioncfis. Creamy white,
they had a sort of bittersweet
chocolate coating, an unbeatable
combination.
One or two other select child-
hood sweets must be mentioned.
There was Oh Boy Gum, a
giant -sized stick in a brilliant
yellow wrapper. It was prob-
ably the 'first appearance of
bubble gum. Just the size of the
stick alone made Oh Boy Gum
a bargain; the fact that you
could blow bubbles with it as
well was sheer largesse deliv-
ered by a benevolent manufac-
turer. Oh Boy Gum probably
got more youngsters into hot
water in school than any gum
since — but it was worth it.
* * *
I only wish that my boys might
have the pleasure of being able
to buy penny candy at a neigh-
borhood grocery. A grocery run
by friends and neighbors, not
strangers, who considered boys
and girls with a smile on their
faces and a penny clutched tight-
ly in one moist palm as among
their most valued customers. —
From an article by Philip Brady
in The Christian Science Monitei-.
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