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

1951-07-26 / 30. szám

Color Query One of the most devastating arguments in favor of fishes’ ability to recognize colors came out of tests conducted by the scientists Kottgen and Abelsdorf. In all eyes—human, fish, and other animal—the only Identified substance which permits color perception is a chemical known as rhodopsin; by compara­tive tests of rhodopsin from human and fish eyes, these scientists found that each had virtually the same qualities. ' The fishing tackle business has reacted to the color argument with enthusiasm. Anglers can buy lures in practically any color of the spectrum for the purpose of at­tracting fish. A whole lot less at­tention has been paid to another important color angle, however—the use of color in lines to hide their presence in the water. Many dry-fly fishermen will use only light colors in their lines. They believe that since a fish normally sees a dry-fly line as it lies on top of the water—silhouetted against the sky—light colors are less no­ticeable and thus less likely to spook the quarry. Bait-casting lines are, of course, a different story. They have no float­ing qualities and they are much more finely calibrated than fly lines. Therefore, the possibility of their casting a shadow in the water is considerably lessened. However, the color of a bait-casting line may very well be of far greater impor­tance than that of a fly line. This is because a sunken bait-line comes di­rectly into a fish’s view. By far the most commonly used color in bait-lines is, at present, black. There is no apparent explana­tion for this; black is certainly not a shade calculated to blend in with all types of water. Nor is it a shade which fish can’t see. If bass, for example, were totally oblivious to black, there would be small point indeed to fishing for them with black plugs—which actually are notable bass killers under some con­­; ditions. AAA Lotta Tuna! Lt. James Lynch, South Orange, N. J. (the gentleman with the rod) took this 682-lb. tuna at Bimini on June 5. The tuna was the largest taken at Cat Bay or Bimini this season. Lynch was using a Cortland 39- thread Supercuty linen line, a line which, in varying thread strengths took many record fish during the season. AAA More About Carp Contrary to popular opinion carp are not vegetarians. Tom Moen, fisheries biologist for the Iowa Conservation Commission, in the ex­amination of 739 carp stomachs during 1946 through 1949, found that carp of all sizes and ages feed prin­cipally on animal material. The food falls into three groups, insect larvae, crustaceans, and mollusks. Game fish egg predation is, in the popular mind, one of the prin­cipal objections to carp. Moen found that carp do take walleye eggs dur­ing the spawning period. From 37 carp collected in April in Spirit Lake, one contáined three walleye eggs. On analysis of 51 stomachs no eggs were found in Spirit Lake, while of two carp from Okoboji, 9 walleye eggs were found in one stomach. Winter food studies on 167 carp from four Iowa lakes reveals that there is considerable feeding dur­ing winter months, with animal organisms making up 100 per cent 'of the diet, with only traces of plant material found. During winter, both the volume of food and the per cent of stomachs containing food -was found to be considerably less than during the summer. AAA Hook Disgorging The job of extracting a deeply­­swallowed hook from the throat of . a fish isn’t the tough job it used to be. Many alert manufacturers have taken pains to provide anglers with a means for making this for­merly messy job more desirable. They have made a simple and ef­fective hook remover of a metal tube with a slot down one side. The , line is slipped in the slot and the I tube is slid on down the hook. Only I a slight twisting frees the hook. COMMAND APPEARANCE . . . Anthony Brancato, 35, Los Angeles and Kansas City, surrendered vol­untarily in San Francisco after learning he had been promoted to the FBI’s “10 most wanted” list. He gave up to the FBI in the office of an attorneys PHILIPPINES TO PHILHARMON­IC .. . Nena del Rosario, a Fili­pino studying in New York, has been engaged as soloist for next season’s young people's concerts of the Philharmonic symphony of New York. She recently won a radio station musical talent con­test. FIJtED FIRST SHOT . . . Lt. Col. James Little, Rock Springs, Wyo., 5th A.F., fired the first aerial shot of the Korean war for U.N., de­stroying enemy plane over Kimpo June 27, 1950. The colonel is still flying his F-82. KNOWS LUCIANO . . . Gaetano Martino tells crime probers that he spent some time in Italy with Charles (Lucky) Luciano, but de­nies reports that he took automo­biles and medical supplies to re­puted kingpin of drug traffic in U.S. and Italy. A Prediction Conies True SOME four years ago, back in the early winter of 1947, two emi­nent baseball diagnosticians, Harry Salsinger, the Detroit historian of sport, and Toots Shor, were discus­sing the two pennant races. They were talking about the Dodg­ers. “There will be little to it in the National League for some time to come but the Dodgers,” Salsinger said. “Very little to it,” Toots replied. “They have all the ballplayers they need and they have others coming on just as good.” “It is the list of young players coming on,” Salsinger said. “This Dodger team is almost sure to get stronger and stronger. By 1950 or 1951 it will be at its best, hard to beat for several seasons.” Shor agreed fully. The Dodgers won in 1947. They won again in 1949. They should have won easily in 1950. Now, as Messrs. Salsinger and Shor said four years ago, they are approaching a new peak. Mr. Rickey built much too well for the remainder of the National League race. Especially his Pirates, who are currently far behind the Dodgers. It isn’t only for 1951 that this dark Brooklyn shadow will hang over the rest of the league. This thing might go on for several cam­paigns, as it did for the Yankees some years back when they won six out of seven consecutive pennants. I can’t see how any other team can get enough extra help or added strength to move within a furlong of the N.L. leaders. They had all the best of it until they added Pafko and Schmidt, and this merely added crushing strength on both the offensive and defensive side. Recently the Dodgers moved through a heavy batting slump, yet they kept on winning with better pitching than anyone looked for, plus the long hit needed in a pinch. Only overconfidence or sheer lazi­ness can stop this squad. Grantland Rice * * • Waiting For the. Punch Years ago Stanford had seven men who deserved to make any All- American team. Among them were Keith Topping. Benes Hamilton and Bobby Grayson. Yet they kept winning games by a field goal. “We knew we could win any time we felt like it,” Topping told me. “So we’d fool around and finally someone would say: "Aw, let’s kick a field goal.’ ” This Dodger team is much the same way. They seem to fool around untir the eighth or ninth inning and you can almost hear Dressen or someone else say: “Aw, let's have a home run.” And. Snider or Hodges or Cam­­panella or Furillo or Robinson will promptly oblige—even with two out in the ninth. With Pafko now added, every man on the team down to the pitcher is dangerous. The Red Sox have Ted Williams, Vern Stephens, Bobby Doerr and maybe one or two more who can up­set the apple cart on a moment’s no­tice. But the Red Sox have no such array of A-bombs as the Dodgers have. The Yankees, in this respect, are not even in their class, or close to their class. The Cardinals have Stan Musial—and who else? The Giants have one or two fair dis­tance hitters. Pittsburgh has Kiner. The White Sox have Robinson. But what other team has Snider, Pafko, Hodges, Campanella, Furillo, Rob­inson and now and then a fellow known as Pee Wee Reese? * * * The Test of Oakmont Oakland Hills, always a first-class test, was souped up for the recent U.S. Open. OUT OF A JOB? . . . Eric Drake, who was manager of the Anglo- Iranian Oil Co., arrives at London airport from the middle east. He was scheduled to confer with for­eign office officials on latest de­velopments in Iranian oil crisis. Apparently it is impossible to soup up a course beyond Ben Hogan’s play. But no one has to soup up Oakmont, a bunkered for­tress just outside of Pittsburgh, where the P.G.A. holds champion­ship at match play. , Tommy Armour, a brilliant golfer in his day, tied Harry Cooper at Oakmont in the 1927 U.S. Open with a 301 score and then won the play­off 76 to 79. Armour was good enough to be U.S., British and P.G.A. champion. Sam Parks won the U.S. Open at Oakmont in 1935 with 299. Par at Oakmont is 73. So the last two winners there needed an av­erage of 8 over par. After all, 287 was good enough to win or tie at Oakland Hills. This was 13 strokes under the Oakmont test—and at Oakmont the stroke-saving wedge was just coming into use. According to Armour the wedge means a saving of 2 strokes a round, or 8 strokes in a 72-hole test. Oakmont, the dream terror of Bill Fownes, is a magnificient test for either match or medal play, but its main pressure comes from the medal side. PROMOTES BEEF STRIKE . . . Mrs. Louis Wright, Washington, D.C., whose indignation over high beef prices sounded an Independence Day battlecry—“Let the steers grow old”—serves chicken to her son, Louis, as her telephone chain letter consumers’ strike against beef gains mo­mentum. She called 10 women and pledged them not to buy any beef during July. Each in turn pledged to obtain 10 similar pledges from 10 others. The Wrights haven't eaten beef in a month. GENERAL’S LADY HAS A VISITOR . . . Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgway, wife of the supreme commander of allied personnel in the far east, is host to Mrs. Saki Miyamoto, picturesque visitor from northern Hok­kaido, Japan. Mrs. Miyamoto is wife of the chief of the Ainu tribe and a kind of lesser royalty. She visited the United States embassy in Tokyo, where she was received by Mrs. Kidgway, on a goodwill mission from her people to the forces of occupation in Japan. REWARDED . . . M/Sgt. Stanley Adams, Olathe, Kans., hero of Korea who received the congressional medal of honor for leading a bayonet charge in Korea while Communist hand grenades bounced off his body, receives a hug and kiss from his 3%-year-old son, Gary, following pres­entation of the nation’s highest decoration for bravery by President Truman at White House ceremony. Four heroes of the Korean war received the medal at the ceremony. LONDON GUEST FACES INDICTMENT . . . The lord mayor of London, Sir Denys Lowson (robed), greets Mayor David Lawrence of Pittsburgh (left) in London. Mayor Lawrence was one of the many mayors from various U.S. cities who were entertained at London's Mansion House. Back home, a special grand jury recommended indictment of Mayor Lawrence, charging him with misdemeanor in office. The lord mayor’s wife stands beside her husband. Sir Denys. TAKES PRICE PROBLEM TO SHOPPERS . . . U.S. Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston and manager of a New York food store, Caesar Otiolina (right), confer in the latter’s store as Johnston discusses price roll­backs with interested customers. Johnston warned that a ban on price rollbacks in the new controls law would add a dollar a day to every household budget. Strongly backed by President Truman, Johnston made his plea for strong wage-price legislation as an unfriendly house opened debate on an amendment-riddled controls bill that the administration feared would hamper the inflation fight. NEWARK BLAST LOOKS LIKE A-BOMB EXPLOSION ... An aerial view of the spectacular fire in Newark, N. J., as one of the tanks of the Warren Propane Company goes up in an explosion resembles that of a miniature atom bomb. Some of the unexploded gas and oil tanks are in the foreground. All were expected to blow. The city of Newark may be seen behind the smoke pall created by the burning propane. The fire raged for many hours and cost approximately five million dollars. All available Newark fire fighting equip­ment was put to work to combat the flames and the fighters had to call in helpers from New York City. VEEP’S GIRLS OFF FOR EUROPE . . . The Misses Jane and Anne Hadley, stepdaughters of Vice-President Alben Barkley, wave just be­fore they sail for Europe on the S.S. Veendam. The two girls are members of a group of students from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., going over to see how the other half of the world lives. They will spend several weeks in European cities before return­ing to the United States. GJIEASY THUMB’S SON . . . Charles Guzik, son of reputed gang boss, Jake, sneaks into Chicago with a handkerchief over his face and a snarl for reporters after re­lease from Phoenix jail on $87,500 bond on vice den charges. AVIATION ACHIEVEMENT . . . Douglas Rocket is carried to height of 35,000 feet above Muroc, Calif., by another plane, a B-29 bomber, and dropped for successful assault on all known speed and altitude records. Craft was suspended from the belly of the B-29 and carried from Edwards air force base. The Douglas Rocket was flown by test pilot Bill Bridgeman. After release from the bomber, he flew plane at undisclosed heights and speed. MALIK’S DAUGHTER . . . Svet­lana, 7, daughter of Yakov Malik, Soviet U.N. delegate, is carried aboard the S. S. Grispholm in New York as she sailed with her parents for Russia. Malik is going home for a vacation and convalescence.

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