Az Ujság, 1951 (31. évfolyam, 25-35. szám)

1951-06-21 / 25. szám

EAST MEETS WEST . . . Red dominated East Germany and anti-Red West Germany are represented by Kurt Edel of East (left) and Karl Von Alt, (right) of West, as they get together to sign an agreement to seng one delegation to represent all of Germany in the Olympic games at Helsinki in 1952. President of the United States Olympic committee is signing the agreement made by the two representatives of areas that can’t seem to agree on anything else. REINFORCEMENTS FOR IKE . . . The first member of the first con­tingent of the U.S. fourth division is about to step off the gangplank at Bremerhaven, Germany, as the first reinforcements for the western European defense army of General Dwight Eisenhower arrives from the United States. The G. I. looks as if he is about to run into tough opposition all at once. Actually, he and his fellows were given a cordial welcome by French General Juin, commander of land forces. FIGHTS FOR CHILDREN . . . The former Peggy Boyce Thompson Schultz, who recently married tenor Morton Downey (left), enters New York supreme court to fight suit by her “ex,” Polish Prince Alexander Hohenlohe, for partial custody of their two children. She charged that the prince is unfit to have custody of the two children who were born of her 10 years of marriage with Prince Alexander. Attorney for Mrs. Downey, Arthur Stryker, is at right with briefcase. Carp Can Be Fun Carp fishing, on light tackle, can be an exciting pastime which sports­men's groups and individual an­glers would do well to include in their plans for the 1951 season, says the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests. At least two southern Ontario clubs, at Brantford and Port Perry, have done such a good job in get­ting members interested in angling for the fish that each spring they hold “derbies” in which prizes are given for the most carp and the largest taken. Those who have fished carp say that some of them—and they grow big—"will battle like a muskie,” if they are taken on a casting rod and light line. “Even a 4-pounder,” writes one carp-fishing addict, “can battle for 20 minutes and still have lots of pep left.” For those who would like to take lip this carp-angling sport, and thereby help out the game fish, one of the Port Perry group passes along the following technique: “Use a casting rod and reel; a line of 14 to 20 pound test and a No. 4 or No. 6 hook with a single gut. A double-gutted hook allows the carp to feel that it has something in its mouth other than food and it will usually spit it out. “Fish on the bottom. When the carp takes hold of the bait allow it to run well as one would do in min­now fishing for pike. This allows the carp to swallow the bait, then, as the hook is set the battle is on . . . believe me they can really put up a fight.” Bait, this same angler explains, is a mixture of corn-meal, corn­­syrup and flour: “First put one cup of water in a basin, a cup of corn-syrup or sugar, cook until the mixture is a stiff paste. Allow it to cool until it can be handled, then place it on a mix­ing board, or table, and work in flour until it becomes a very stiff paste. “When ready to fish take off a piece that, when rolled into a ball, will cover the hook. This will stay on the hook for some time. A sinker at the end of the line is optional.” AAA How Fast? How far and fast does a hatchery bass travel after release in fishing waters? These and other interesting data will be recorded at Lake Tex-' oma this year if anglers will co­operate at the state’s biggest lake on the southern edge of Oklahoma. Eight hundred largemouth black bass, released last February from the state hatchery near Durant, were marked with small metal fin­­clips, numbered for future identifi­cation. To date more than twenty caught by fishermen have been re­ported to the state game and fish department, according to H. C. Ward, head of the department’s fisheries division. AAA Redear Sunfish Staff biologists of the West Vir­ginia conservation commission’s division of fish management recent­ly became aware of a “strange” sunfish in Lake Chaweva, near Charleston. Some anglers wondered what the fish might be. Technicians of the Commission identified it as a Lepo­­mis microlophus, or the western shellcracker (now called the red­ear sunfish). This species of sunfish, closely related to the pumpkinseed sunfish, has never been found in West Vir­ginia waters. Undoubtedly it has been introduced into Lake Chaweva from midwestern state areas. The fish has a general shape more like a crappie than the typical bluegill, or other sunfish species. Its pectoral fin is very long and pointed. The opercular flap has a bright orange, or red at times, band on the margin. The maximum size this fish attains is about 12 inches; however, in crowded lake conditions it generally doesn’t get much longer than seven inches. The redear has not been collected elsewhere in West Virginia than Lake Chaweva. It is believed, how­ever, that it has undoubtedly es­caped from the lake and may be found in some of the Kanawha River drainage streams. This spe­cies is generally found only in the Mississippi River in Missouri and from southern Indiana, south to Alabama and the Rio Grande. It has been found in Lake Michigan drainage from Indiana. The fish is commonly found in or near large, warm rivers, bayous and lakes. It is found in Buckeye Lake, near Co­lumbus, Ohio; and in a few other lakes in the State of Ohio. AAA Deep Bear Den A bear den 35 feet deep yet 25 feet above ground has been dis­covered in the Ottawa National For­est. As reported by District Ranger Harry Matthews of Kenton, Hough­ton County, the den was found in a 60-foot white pine stub. Top of the tree had been broken off, so it was marked for cutting. When felled, a mother bear and last year’s cub crawled out of the top of the trunk and scampered off to freedom. Racing’s Boom Golf is facing one of its greatest spectator seasons. The Masters at Augusta broke all past records. “I have never seen such crowds,” Bobby Jones told me. “They were beyond belief.” But actually racing appears to be the sport that is enjoying the great­est boom. Crowds at Jamaica have been well above last year’s gathering and the same increase is promised at Belmont and Aqueduct. ADONIS OFF TO BIG HOUSE . . . Joe Adonis (left), racket king, who was sentenced to from two to three years for violating New Jersey’s gambling laws, enters a deputy’s car for the trip to the state prison to begin serving his sentence. The hatless man in rear is James “Piggy” Lynch, who was sentenced with Adonis. In addition to the prison term, Adonis was fined $15,000. This is the first time in jail for the racket boss. SECRET WEAPON . . . Could be that bats of Cal Abrams, hitting around .463, are keeping the Dodgers going in their pace-setting in the National League this year. His average topped big leagues when this picture was snapped re­cently. JET ACE TELLS STORY . . . Capt. James Jabara, Wichita, first jet ace by virtue of his fifth and sixth “kills” in Korea recently, address­es newsmen at a press conference In the Pentagon. He said the MIG- 15 is as good as the F-86 as a combat airplane. LIVING DEAD . . . Bonny Coby, 2, appears to be stranded as she stands alone on a deserted street in Utica, N. Y., during simulated atom bomb attack. The city was described as devastated with casualties heavy in the attack. Many residents failed to take cover and were described as “living dead.” Make-believe enemy planes roared over the city and dropped the “atom bomb” 13 minutes before the red alert was sounded in Utica’s industrial heart. CHANGES BILLING . . . Dawlath Soliman, Cairo nightclub dancer, drew protest from Egyptian consul when she danced in Germany as King Farouk’s “favorite dancer.” She changed bill to read: “Dawlath Soliman—she enthused the king.” JUNE BRIDE . . . Myrna Loy be­came the bride of Howland Sar­­geant, deputy assistant secretary of state for public affairs, at the army chapel at Ft. Meyer, Va„ recently. They will make their home in Georgetown, Va. SCIENCE FOR ROMANCE . . . Mrs. Clark Gable plans cruise to Hawaii with Mrs. George Vander­bilt and Mrs. Qharles Howard. It will be a scientific fishing expedi­tion. Mrs. Gable recently filed suit for divorce from her husband and Mr. Gable filed countersuit. JOINS UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY TEAM ... Joe Louis receives the United Cerebral palsy home run baseball bank as he attends a Dodgers- Braves game at Ebbets field. The baseball bank, symbol of the drive to help more than 200,000 children suffering from cerebral palsy, was presented to the former heavyweight boxing champ by Karl Van Meter (center), executive director, United Cerebral Palsy, and Melvin Ritter, chairman of the junior division in Massachusetts. MRS. BING HOME . . . Mrs. Bing Crosby, formerly Dixie Lee of the films, boards an airliner at La- Guardia Field, N. Y., for flight to her California home after a vaca­tion in Europe. This is one of the rare times Mrs. Crosby has posed. ONE-STOP NORWAY TO NEW YORK FLYER . . . Captain Charles F. Blair, Jr., who ended a one-stop Norway-to-New York flight, traveling by the way of the North Pole and Alaska, is greeted in New York by his son, Christopher, one year old, and his wife, Janice, following his arrival without mishap at the International airport. Captain Blair's solo flight over the North Pole was the first such flight to be made in a single engine aircraft. The flyer is an employee of an airline. He claims that passenger serv­ice to Northern Europe is very possible using the route that he just traversed. STUDENTS TAKE DEFERMENT TESTS ... Some of the more than 175,000 college students who are scheduled to take the new tests for deferment from the draft at more than a thousand centers throughout the United States are shown in this general view at Columbia University in New York City just prior to the tests. The new examination will determine whether these students will be granted deferments from the draft under the government’s new program to postpone the induction of college men who have especial talents or who have made high scholastic marks in their chosen courses in the universities of the nation. EMBARRASSED . . . R o c c o Fischetti of Chicago, 111., pal of the late A1 Capone, attempts to shield his face from the camera shortly before testifying at a closed door senate crime committee hear­ing on Chicago rackets and gam-The Home Run Touch MASS PRODUCTION in home runs will be a hustling business this season, with keener competi­tion than we've known in some years. In past seasons it has been the custom’ of Ralph Kiner, the Pirate's big first baseman, to take charge. In his last five years with the Pirates, Kiner has struck off 23, 51, 40, 54, and 47 four-baggers. This leaves him all alone in any five­­year group. But things are quite different in thi: new season of 1951. Kiner’s main challenger for the new campaign should be Gil Hodges, the powerful Dodger. Hodges is only 27 years old. He is six feet one, and weighs 200 pounds. It seems that big Gil has sei an increasing home­­run tempo year by year. In his first full season with the Dodgers in 1948, he hit only 11 homers. In 1949 he lifted this mark to 23. In I95C he moved it up to 32. So far as 1951 is concerned, Hodges is off flying well ahead ol Kiner, Ted Williams and other leading sluggers from past years. If Hodges could hold his opening clip steadily through the summer, he would have the best chance yet of reaching Babe Ruth’s famous landmark—60 in one season. Gil was born in Princeton, Indi­ana, not New Jersey, where he could have made the Tiger squad one of its best tackles or guards. He is normally a .285 hitter but he expects to do better this season. Grantland Rice Hodges is a leading part of the powerful Dodger attack. Any pitcher who has to face Abrams, well over .400, Reese, Snider, Robinson and Hodges (with Furillo due later) might as well stand with his back to the wall facing a firing squad. They can all pulverize any ball thrown in reach. As fine a home-run hitter as Ralph Kiner is, the big Pirate can’t afford to lose too much ground to a hitter of Hodges’ standing. And while Ted Williams is hitting poor­ly, so far as his batting average is concerned, he still retains his old power. Westlake has been giving Hodges his closest run. Westlake hit 23 home runs in 1949 and 24 in 1950. He is moving well beyond this pace in 1951. The Relief Handicap Pitchers working overtime in re­­lief roles can have a year or two of glory, but they pay heavily. Joe Page had a terrific pennant­winning year in 1947. He had a bad year in 1948. He came back with another big winner in 1949. He fell apart once more in 1950. So far in 1951 he has had a hard time win­ning for Kansas City. Page worked in 60 tough games in 1949 which is more than the aver­age arm can carry when you con­sider the long hours one spends in the bull pen. The same fact has now apparent­ly overtaken Jim Konstanty, the 1950 iron man of the Phillies. Konstanty worked in 74 games last year. This means he was in the bull pen every day, warm­ing up for almost every game. There was considerable doubt last winter that the Phillies re­lief star could return with any­thing like the same stuff he had last season. He may have had a rubber arm or an iron arm last year, but there is always a limit. Without Kon­stanty last season, Eddie Sawyer's team could never have won. Kon­stanty’ s inability to hit his 1950 pace has been one of the main Philly drawbacks, plus the loss of Curt Simmons. This is like losing two star pitchers. Any team that catches and holds the Dodgers this season will need everything it can reach for. if you picked an altatar team from the National League, out­side of the Dodgers, few could break into the Brooklyn pay­roll. Who in the older circuit is better than Campanella, Hodges, Robinson, Reese, Abrams, Snider and Furillo? Musial could get into this group, but not many others. The All-Star game this summer is likely to be the Dodgers vs. the American League unless some dras­tic changes take place in the next few weeks.

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