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Zurich Herald, 1955-10-06, Page 3THE aiVe t SPORTS COLUMN eetez 7e odor • There has hardly been a world series in which a whole batch of new records didn't go into the book. liiere's a thumb• nail collection of general records and oddities: The longest game went 14 innings. That was in 1916, and Babe Ruth, then pitching ler Boston won over Brooklyn, 2-1. Last year marked only the second occasion the National League (New York Giants) took four straight. Boston Braves did it in 1914. Longest: nine. -Inning game by time went•3 hours, 19 mire• Utes (1947, New York Yankees vs. Brooklyn). Shortest game by time went 1 hour, 25 minutes. Chicago N.L. 2, Detroit A.L. 0 at Detroit, Oct. 14. 1908. Smallest attendance, game, 6210 at Detroit, Oct 14, 1908 Largest attendance, game, 86,288 at Cleveland, 1948. Largest share, winning player — $11,147 Giants vs. Cleveland, 1954 Largest share, losing player — $6,712.50 to Cleveland, 1954. Smallest share, winning player — $1,108,45 — Boston A.L. vs. Chicago, N.L. 1918. Smallest share, losing player -- $382. $382. — Philadelphia, A.L. vs. New York, N.L., 1905. Oldest pitcher to start a World Series game — John P; Quinn, A's, 1929 — 44 years, 2 months, Oldest pitcher to finish a Series game — Quinn, 54 years, 2 months — 1930. Youngest pitcher to win complete World Series game — Leslie A. Bush, A's, 1913 — 20 years, 11 months Winning Series after winning one game and losing three — Boston, A.L., vs. Pittsburgh, 1903; Pittsburgh, N.L ;' vs Washington, 1925. Winning Series after losing first three games — never accomplished The New York Yanks played through a five -game Series, 1937 (Giants) without making an error. Fewest errors both clubs in a seven -game Series — 6. Triple pitching feats: Old floss Radbourne for Provi• deuce, N.L., 1884; Bill Dineen for Red Sox, 1103; Christy Matthewson for Giants, 1905; Babe Adams for Pittsburgh, 1909; Jack Coombs for Philadelphia Athletics, 1910; Smokey Joe Wood for Boston, 1912; Barry (The Cat) Brecheen for St. Louis Cards in 1946. Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer.ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge Si., Toronto. Calvert DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTBURG, ONTARIO NAVY PETS A. party of officers from the claval survey ship Vidal were stretching their legs ashore in British Honduras recently, when a mangy little pup began frisk- ing around their legs. "Poor little devil!" exclaimed one of the officers. "He looks half starved. Let's see if we can buy him and take him aboard." "Sure, boss," grinned• the an- imal's owner, a native labourer, "dat dawg ain't no good to me. You can hey him fer nuthin'.." And so "Heinz" became one of the crew. Since he joined the Navy he has put on weight, is bright-eyed and glossy -coated. He knows every man in the ship's company, and growls at any stranger who comes aboard. Bulldogs, despite their tough appearance, are inclined to be too delicate for life at sea. But in one warship the captain was presented with a very young bull -pup he was determined to rear. Accordingly the dog was placed in the personal charge of his marine sentry, who had strict instructions to let no one touch the animal. A diet sheet and a "routine" were solemnly drawn up and formed part of the sentry's or- ders. Periodically the beefy marine ceased pacing his beat, took up a fountainpen filler full Of milk and carefully fed the tiny animal as it sprawled lux- uriously in its cushioned basket. "Buster," wartime mascot of R.M.S. Stork, was a real sea dog. He was picked up towards sIr the end of the war, a lonely pup floating on a raft in mid-Atlan- tic. Despite his unpleasant ex- perience "Buster" preferred to remain at sea, and -before the war ended was "in" at three U-boat kills. Then there was `Able Seaman Nuisance," a Great Dane who became the mascot of a naval shore establishment . in South Africa. His certificate of service gave his civilian occupation as "bonecrusher," his religion , as "scrounger," and stated that he had volunteered to, serve for the period of the emergency. Alas, he did not last that long,and when he died was given a full naval funeral and a monument was erected over his grave. Ships' pets taken back to .Bri- tain must be declared to the customs authorities. , On one occasion a corvette had declared two cats which had joined the ship at Gibraltar, and the cus- toms officer demanded to see the animals before clearing the ship. But both cats had sneaked ashore and were nowhere to be found. The dockyard was hast- ily scoured and two indignant strays from other ships were grabbed, brought on board and duly presented as the new ar- rivals to Britain. Cats and dogs are by no means 'the only animal pets carried in warships. The ill-fated battle - cruiser Hood once had a walla- by, a destroyer boasted a full grown black bear, and during the war the cruiser H.M.S. Kent actually had a pet seal. DROOPING SPIRITS --With children back at school, there were fewer visitors to throw peanuts at the elephants in the Bronx Zoo. So this poor fellow hod to drape his trunk over the wall and hunt for tidbits that might have fallen in busier days. His woebegone look indicates the pickings were slim, 9../(;`,W; NET RESULT—VICTORY—Tony .Trabert sprawls on the court after a fall while smashing a point past Australia's Ken Rosewell, in finals of National Tennis 'Singles Tournament. Do You Fear That "Unlucky" Number? Would you worry if, upon arrival at a hotel, you found you had been allocated room •unmber thirteen? Would you feel un- easy if you found yourself sit- ting thirteenth at table? Would you object to living in a house numbered thirteen? 11 your answer is "Yes" to each of these questions, then you are only one of many thou- sands of people who believe, without knowing exactly why that there is something . sinister about the number thirteen - that it brings ill luck. In many of the big European cities the "thirteen" supersition still flourishes. When asked for room number thirteen at a French seaside hotel, the owner looked aghast. The very fact that anybpdy should want to sleep in a room bearing the dreaded number ob- viously appalled him. He said his hotel had never had a Room 13 and never would while he re- mained its owner. He offered Room 12a. Even: in Britain inquiries at ,a number of holiday hotels show- ed that many hoteliers in 1955 are still superstitious about the number thirteen. Some have no room thirteen. The proprietor of one hotel said that most visitors would •rather sleep in a haunted room than in a room bearing that number. In some 'big hotels it is sometimes the practice to begin numbering "the rooms at 14 or 15 in order to avoid 13 and its so-called evil associations. It is said that visitors rarely notice the ommission of 13 and the substitution of 12a, which" as in some Continental hotels, sometimes takes place. But is number thirteen really unlucky? One of the happiest— and prettiest—women of my ac- quaintance was born in 1903, the digrits of which, added up, make thirteen. She was the thir- teen child of a couple who lived for years in a London suburban house numbered thirteen. This woman married a Lon- doner, whose surname has thir- teen letters, on May 13th, and their first child was born on August 13th of the following year. The husband has been his own boss for just thirteen years and is very prosperous. Can you wonder that this con- tented couple scoff at any sug- gestion that the number which has so dominated their lives is unlucky? Or consider the case of 52 - year -old Mr. Roy Glynn, an Australian. No one specially noticed him when he arrived at Romford railway station one night in 1949. But a month earlier, when he had left Rom- ford for New York, he was con- spicuous with a white stick and a nurse to guide him. He arrived blind at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and had two operations. The doctor removed his bandages and asked if he could see. "Yes, thank God, 1 canl" he shouted. Said Mt Glynn: "1 must be lucky. I am a thirteenth child, enlisted on the 13th in the 13th Battalion, passed thirteenth In my civil service examination, was in the 13th garrison in the second world war, and the New York hospital where 1 recover- ed my sight -as in 13th Street. Who said thirteen was unlucky?" When a man named W. J. SAFES Protect your BOOBS and CASH from FIRE and THIEVES, We have a size and type of Safe. or Cabinet, for any purpose. TIwsitus or write for price. . W rl LIMITED TORONTO SAFE WORKS 145 Front St. E., Toronto Established 1855 ISStIE 40 * 195 Uruckshanks won a big prize in a sweepstake many years ago, his ticket number ended with "13" and the news of his win reached him on the 13th of the month. Two hundred years ago an English soldier named Hatfield found that thirteen was indeed his lucky number, for it saved his life. He was condemned to death on a charge of sleeping while doing sentry duty outside Wind- sor Castle. He stoutly denied sleeping, declaring that he was so wide awake that he had actu- ally heard a distant clock strike thirteen at midnight. He was laughted at, but his story got round and shortly be- fore he was due to die half a dozen people carne forward with affidavits which established that the clock had struck thirt- een on that particular night, owing to a defect in its mechan- ism. The soldier was pardoned and always after that declared that for anybody to say thirteen was an unlucky number was ab- surd. Thirteen was always the favourite number of Woodrow Wilson, who became President of the United States in 1913 and whose name contained thirteen letters. His car number figures, when added up, made thirteen. And he used to tell his friends that he regarded Friday the thirteen- th as "a day of double luck." 'Those people who think thirt- een in a family is unlucky should listen to the evidence of a Lowestoft man, Mr. William Yowell. "I'm one of a family of thirteen," he said in 1924, "the eldest of nine brothers and four sisters, and we have always been lucky. For instance, five of us boys served in the war and all saw service in France, Bel- gium, Germany, Italy and the Dardanelles. We all got back safely to our dear old home _again." Quite a number of famous men have counted thirteen as their lucky number. Arctic evplorer Dr. Nansen, who between 1893 and 1896 led an expedition nearer that North Pole than any man had reviously been, started his great voyage on March 13th with thirteen men. He reached civilization again on August 13th and was enter- tained at the 13th dinner of the Scottish Geographical Society on the following February 13th. "Dr. Nansen had forever set aside the evil influence associ- ated with the number thirteen," said one speaker at the dinner. Twenty-five thousand wild- fires annually burn 306 million board feet in Florida—enough to build 40,000 five room houses. 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