Walkerton Independent, Volume 62, Number 6, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 July 1936 — Page 3
a B © New York Post.—WNU Service. Manero’s Not Quite as ‘Dark’ a ‘Horse’ as He First Appears OUTSIDE the sun which had been so bright all day had faded to a dull purple. Still little groups of tired, half-clad men sat about the Baltusrol locker room. In one corner Tommy Armour was holding forth like the rare story teller that he is. Gene Sarazen sat nearby silently cuddling one chubby knickered leg beneath another. Walter Hagen nursed a glass of beer while waiting to crown Armour’s anecdote with an experience of his own. This was early on the evening before the finals. Most of the top-rank-ing stars of golf who had just completed the second round of the national open tournament were clustered in this group. Nearby other clusters of near stars talked happily about the good break of fortune which unexpectedly had enabled them to qualify with 151 s for the final rounds. Occasionally there would be talk of the morrow. Then heads would nod meaningly toward Johnny Revolta, Paul Runyan, Ky Laffoon and those others listening eagerly in the HagenArmour amen corner. A reporter, trying to take in all this, and yet more interested in Granville’s Belmont chances, brushed past a locker where a little dark-haired man was changing his shoes. •‘Going to be some swell golf out there tomorrow,” he remarked. Fellow’s Tone Is Polite; He’s Major Tourney Type "Yes, maybe,” said the dark-haired little fellow. The tone was polite, per-
haps even a little wistful. The reporter looked at the little fellow curiously. When you cover the major golf tournaments you often run across men and women whom you never will meet again. They come in so hopefully and depart so— But at least this little fellow's clothes still hung in his locker
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and so he was not out of the tournament entirely. The reporter decided that a chance kind word might not hurt. Most people like to talk when they have been going through events such as these. He glanced at the group of stars. “Do any good yourself?” he asked. “Yes.” The dark little man had finished dressing now and was turning away. “Pretty good,” he added as he gently closed the locker door. The reporter followed him out. "Who's that guy?" he asked a golf writer. The writer did not know. Neither did a second or a third. “Oh," said a fourth. “Him. He's —Oh hell, I remember h'S name now. It's Tony Manero. He took a three under par out there today.” The writer then resumed telling about a shot Ray Mangrum had blasted out of a trap on the fifteenth. Now that the former Westchester caddy, whom few people knew, is national open golf champion, I have been wondering about this game In which he performs. Even in a year when Italians have been achieving sports distinction far out of the ordinary, his smashing of both the British and American records is rated a real dark-horse triumph. Yet— Somehow I doubt whether It Is entirely that. True enough, Sam Parks, who stunned the experts by winning a year ago, was eliminated recently. Yet golf is bound by far more rigid standards of probability than most other games, and there is a steadily increasing number of men who can come close to par on every round. So It seems that even though a Runyan or a Laffoon might well be ahead of a hundred others on total scores for a year’s play it becomes close to impossible now to do any expert picking on a lone event. Given a course such as Baltusrol, where rule of the thumb methods could prevail on each hole, anything might happen. Glance at the records. You will discover that the thirty-one-year-old Tony has been playing excellent golf for the last seven seasons. Save that the sport is so teeming with stars his record might have placed him up with the leaders from the start of any expert prediction. Somehow I suspect that there will be numerous Maneros and Parkses in seasons to come. Believes Granville Has Too Much of Amateur Idea Whether the turf can produce many more Granvilles is something not easily guessed at even if a full heart ai 1 a slender pocketbook could stand the strain. Even though this handsome colt finally has managed to win one there is something fantastic about rhe year’s best contribution from the Woodward stable. While triumphing by a scant nose In what should be the best of American stakes, the Belmont, Granville definitely did not seem to have his whole heart in the proceedings. Or rather—unlike the defeated Mr. Bones, who is a money horse the son cf Gallant Fox seemed to be possessed tcc much of the amateur idea.
A MILLIONAIRE sportsman, who nec- | essarily does a considerable portion of his business with mobsters, predicts ti;at aii the present racket masters wili be in the breadline within five । years. Says that they achieved fame merely because prohibition was such a soft touch and that none of them is smart enough to make a living the hard way. . . . Scene on the National Open green: A caddy has just parted from a golfer who has completed his second, and final round. “How much?” other caddies call to their mate. They, of course, are asking about the score, ; but the other boy is a materialist more Interested in the payoff, “Ten bucks," he replies, fingering a bill that has just been transferred to his pocket. Pete Renzulli and Doc Doherty, coaches at Flushing High, are two soccer gentlemen who have real reason i for feeling proud. Three members of I their 1933 team are college captains, * Danny Von Bremen at. Navy, Philip I Kramer at Colgate and Edward GraI ham at Yale. Nasty mens are calling the New York racing judges, who have been having so much trouble lately, the “The i Three Blind Mice.” . . . Customers de- ' voured 1,600 pounds of hot dogs dur- I ing the Memorial day double-header j at Wrigley field. . . . Two years ago Izzy Bierber, the celebrated horseman, placed the picture of three jockeys side ! by side on a corner wall. He had no particular reason for grouping Duke ' Bellizzi, Buddy Hanford and Laverne Fator. Just happened to grab the three j from out of a stack of other jockey pictures with which he was decorating his place. All three of them are dead now. Bieber calls the corner the "Morgue.” Recalling Cuyler’s First Dav in the Big Leagues In his first major league game as a ■ regular Kiki Cuyler smashed a triple, double and single off
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Vic Aldridge. The veteran. now finishing his big time career with his third National league team, the Cincinnati Reds, still shows brilliant flashes by belting out extra base hits. . . . The governors of a celebrated golf club will meet soon to consider how much sugar they can offer Tony
Manero, new National Open champion, to come back home. . . . Pedro Montanez has a belt to prove that ihe is lightweight champion of PuerIto Rico, but has no such evidence I from Venezuela, where he also won l the title. The very modern boxing I commission of that delightful country I wanted a deposit of 3,000 something lor another before letting him have the I belt. Very sensibly Pedro decided that he would rather invest the coconuts . in food and pretty clothes. John Cavanagh, boss of the bookmaking ring at New York tracks, has been prominent on the turf for fifty years. He has seen less than 500 races in all that time. Too busy with his work. . . . Watty Clark attributes his .250 batting average to a bat he re- ; . cently swiped from Joe Coscarart of i the Bees. . . . Oscar Mellilo and George Davis, both of them capable of going more than a round or two in fast company, are the two most enthusiastic fight fans among big time ball players. Although he refused right then to ! I consider offers of advertising men i who besieged him immediately after . j he won the National Open, Tony Manero I was interested in sugar. His first 1 words after reaching the club-house were, “Give me a cup of coffee with three or four lumps—lots of —sugar in it.” . . . The wise boys saj" that Al Et- I tore will repeat his triumphs and defl- : nitely prove that Roy Haynes cannot ! j take a punch when they meet again 1 in Philadelphia this month. . . . A voter suggests that instead of spendI ing so much taxpayers’ money in press ! releases ballyhooing races the New York commission might make a stab ' at remedying a few of the worst con- ’ 1 ; ditions around the tracks. For in- ' stance, they might persuade Belmont’ to try a public address system which . 1 occasionally could be heard distinctly. I Artie Nehf, the once great Giant > pitcher, who has recovered from a long illness, now prefers golf to all I other sports. . . . Johnny Harvey, the old Harlem lightweight who kayoed Mexican Joe Rivers and Matty BaldI win, now is a process server. . . . Al- । though he handled several hundred C’s worth of checks in exchange for LouisSchmeling fight ducats, Mike Jacobs proudly reports that not one of the pretty little pieces of paper has bounced yet. ■! The Giants believe that Babe Young, I who has joined them direct from Ford- j i ham. Is the hard-hitting infielder they i • need. ... A clubhouse bookmaker sei- j dom does less than $25,000 worth of ' ‘ business on a big race, such as the ‘ Belmont. . . . The more important ^stands in the main ring handle $5,000 ' each at such times while the little fel- . j lows get $2,000 on a slate. Having experimented with the mon- ! ey-making possibilities of a soft course । ' the U. S. G. A. will revert to the old • custom of making the National Open 1 Goif tournament a really tough event. • There will be plenty of distance, rough • and hazards at the Oakland Hills > Country club in Michigan according to the plans for next year. . . . Leon Blum, Socialist premier of France, is one of the world’s most enthusiastic I turfmen and can well afford to be since he is a millionaire. . . . Promoters in New Orleans, once one of the best of all boxing towns, are moaning about the numerous taxes levied by the city. ... Ben Tir.cup, the Indian who once pitched for the Cubs, now manages the Paducah (Irv Cobb's old Kentucky home) team. ... in 1892 the major leagues tried out the split season which recently has become so popular in the minors. It cost Max Schmeling f 48 cents to send a letter to his wife ■ the other day ... In 1876, when umpires were as young as the national : game, they used to sit in chairs in ' right field. An uptown New York ! arena, which seats 8.000, will bid •; ggjjnst the Garden and the Hearst A IC. for metropolitan basketball busi-
*Tke T^QjcLsJuLtixm ★ EHL . w ■ j tv IB * * MI k 7. •' ^sgaMki iW'jSßr Jak s I .. -2.. W^KWw®tAvXv:v;- x-wc.v... a. ...v i A hundred years before, in 1676, Nathaniel Bacon (above) signed a famous Declaration of the People of Virginia” wherein the king's governor was vigorously arraigned. Bacon led a rebellion against royal misrule (he is shown above at the burning of Jamestown) but it collapsed when he died suddenly.
Millions Yearly View Declaration * £ ORE than a million patriotic j% /■ pilgrims a year pause before JuV M a marble shrine on the second floor of the Library of 5® <r .hf Congress to gaze with reverent eyes at a fading document —sheltered In a coating * vfi l \ o f gelatin to prevent its further Injury—which is a certain Declaration of Independence signed in the city of Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. Most of the signatures, writes Elizabeth Ellicott Poe In the Washington
Post, are indistinguishable at the present time but on the front of the top row of names is a name written in large script. “John Hancock,” it reads, and the historically minded remember that when that sturdy Massachusetts patr 1 o t bent over to put
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.la signnture to this fateful paper he remarked: “I’ll write it large so King George can read it without his spectacles.” John Hancock, one of the richest men of Boston town, had much to lose by his stand. It was no idle gesture to him, this adoption of the cause of the colonies. His properties were to be forfeited to the crown for what would be considered an act of treason but John Hancock did not hesitate because of this. He was a native of Braintree, therefore a friend and neighbor, no doubt, of John Adams, who was afterward to be the second President of the United States. As a member of the Committee of Patriots appointed after the massacre in Boston asking the British to withdraw, Hancock had counseled every honorable means to avoid the conflict Impending. At the funeral of the slain he preached an oration in which he flayed the cowardice of the British officers and men In slaughtering unarmed men. When the Continental Congress was formed John Hancock represented Massachusetts therein and in 1775-1777 served as Its president. In his spacious Boston mansion meanwhile Lord Percy, Britain’s pet, held sway. A price was put on the head of John Hancock as well, which only amused the game patriot. Hancock was so eager to fight that he let It be known that he was willing to face the hardships of the field. After his Revolutionary service was over, Hancock was elected the first governor of Massachusetts, which office he held from 1787 until his death. John Adams spoke of hin as a “clever fellow, a bit spoiled by a legacy." He left no descendants ani so busy were his heirs in distributing his property after his death that they did not erect a tombstone. Massachusetts in later years repaired this omission and a monument now stands over his grave in the Old Granary Burying ground, on Tremont street, in Boston, not far from the grave of his friend, Samuel Adams, another Massachusetts Revolutionary patriot. ♦ The Flower of Liberty ♦ 4 By Oliver Wendell Holmes - — — TV/HAT flower is this that greets the morn. Its hues from Heaven freshly born? With burning star and flaming band It kindles ail the sunset land; Oh. tell us what the name may be— Is this the Flower of Liberty? It is the banner of the free; The starry Flower of Liberty! In savage Nature's far abode Its tender seed our fathers sowed; The storm winds rocked its swelling bud. Its opening leaves were streaked with blood, Till. Io! Earth's tyrants shook to see The full-blown flower of 1 iberty! Then hail the banner of the free. The starry Flower of Liberty! j One mingling flood of braided light—i The spotless white from northern snows, And, spangled o'er its azure, see ‘ The sister Stars of Liberty!
When the Fourth Was Noisiest Day — W - OOKING back from the security I of our present Fourth of July i I saneness to the early 1900 s when Re— -j—r all Fourths were insane, we tTjll are compelled to admit that we P retty well in those j days considering the limit- ; ed means we had of being i insane compared to the advantages we enjoy now in our state of scientific ; j sanity, states a writer in the Kansas City Star. To a boy of the Insane Fourth era, i the Fourth of July ranked only with i Christmas in fiscal Importance. On Christmas we knew it was 192 days to the Fourth, and on the Fourth we । knew we had only 173 days until Christmas. Christmas savings funds
had not been invented at that time, and would have I been of no interest to boys anyhow, because boys were on the receiving end at Christmas. On the night before the Fourth, the children began showing strange symptoms, especially an unnatural willingness to go to bed early. That gesture was deceiving and specious; the
children were not interested in getting their rightful rest before a strenuous day, but were insuring themselves against the sad accident of sleeping past three o'clock in the morning. Any boy who wasn’t out by three o’clock in the morning shooting firecrackers under the respective windows of the pastor, the school principal and the tru ancy officer was deemed a sissy and not fit for human companionship the rest of the day. The opening ceremony was the only one unanimously attended. From that time on, too many things were happen ing to engage the entire juvenile attention at one time. Tiiere was the sunrise salute of 21 guns, engineered by the village backsmlth who placed one great anvil upon another with giant powder in between, touched off from a daring proximity with a red hot Iron. Usually the nether anvil grew very hot before the 21 salutes were fired and this was one of the causes of many distressing accidents in the insane era. At ten o’clock there was the rendition of the “Star-Spangled Banner,” led by the band and assisted by the ladies of the G. A. R_, whose voices sometimes didn’t quite make the high notes; and the reading of the Dec laratlon of Independence by the mayor. Hostilities usually were suspended at noon for the community dinner In the city park, where fried chicken, water melon and lemonade from a barrel engaged the general attention until satiety was reached. The afternoon was a dizzy succession of patriotic and athletic events, wherein the popular candidate for congress, vied with a greased pole, a pie-eating contest and a ball game, for popular attention. Such was the Fourth of July celebration in the early 1900 s, fraught, as one may see. with great dangers later minimized by the Sane Fourth cam paign. Then hail the banner of the free, The starry Flower of Liberty! The blades of heroes fence it round, t, r here’er it spring* is holy ground; From tower and dome its glories spreadIt javes where lonely sentries tread; It makes the land as ocean free. And plants an empire on the sea! Then hail the banner of the free The starry Flower of Liberty! Thy sacred leaves, fair Freedom's flower, f hall over float an dome and tower. To all their heavenly colors true In blackening frost or crimson diw— And God love ar as up lore thee ■ Thrice hols Flower of Lib>ns ' Then hail the banner of the free, The starry Flower of Liberty. Our National Anthem On March 3. 1931, concn <s nassed a bill declaring “The Star-Spangled Ban ner” to be our national ant .om; it was signed by President Hoover. The words of the anthem w *re written by Francis Scott Key, on September 14, ^l4; the drinking song, “To Anacreon in Heav en,” and is attributed to John Sanford Smith. Key died January 11, 1843.
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