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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT. JULY 1C, 1953 SPORTS £81IIiH * The greatest tennis player of ail time, in the estimation of many experts, passed in the death of a man whose late years were unfortunately shadowed. Whether Big Bill Tilden was the greatest, as so many claim, will always be a point oi contention, as all superlative ratings must be. But there is no question he was the greatest showman of all the tennis stars. Tilden was a flamboyant, swaggering figure in sport's Big Six of the Golden Era of sport, the Roaring Twenties. Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, Babe Ruth, Red Grange, Walter Hagen and Tilden were figures such as are never likely to grace the sport scene again, certainly not at one time. And none was a greater showman than Tilden. Even in the most important circumstances he could not overcome an obsession that ruled him, a desire to see if he could give the Other fellow a handicap and still beat him. Perhaps the most conspicious instance in which this sheer gamble came to the surface was when Tilden was playing a Davis Cup match with the Japanese team member Sbimidzu-- s fine player, too. Tilden, apparently through deliberate design, in the opinion of experts who saw the match, allowed "Shimmy" to win the first two sets and to get within match point of the third set before turning on the heat. Then he began firing in cannonading fashion, and "Shimmy" lost that third set and the next two as well, suffering defeat in a match that had seemed already won. The set scores were 5--7, 4--6, 7--5, 6--2. 6--1. Tilden did the same thing in another Davis Cup match, but this time it was done in a fit of pique. That was in 1923 and the Australian team was the challenging group. The matches were played at Forest Hills. John B. Hswkes and James O Anderson were the Australian aces. In a singles match, after winning the first set, Tilden made a splendid play in the second set. His return went close to the base line. The linesman called it "in." This point won him the set. The crowd booed the linesman's decision. That irked the sensitive Tilden. But his anger took a peculiar twist. Instead of turning in and endeavoring to beat the Australian quickly, he deliberately threw the next set to his opponent, 6--1. It was his way of responding to the crowd's booing. He deliberately handicapped himself in order to show his contempt for the crowd and perhaps for his opponent. Then he cut loose. He poured in everything he had. He won the fourth set and the match in decisive fashion. A great showman, a tremendous tennis player, he made America tennis-conscious in the '20's, when the game was far less popular than now. That he could command attention in such an era, when sportdom was populated by giants, speaks highly of his qualities. Calvert DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTSURG. 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They also led to the discovery of a great sub-artesian basin of fresh water in South Australia. Nature's Reservoir In remote ages there were large depressions on Eyre's Peninsula in South Australia. These great hollows filled with sand and became a reservoir, which to-day holds seven-and-a-half thousand million gallons ol water. This water is pumped to the surface and used for irrigation and the watering of stock The South Australian basin is one of a number of such regions in Australia--one of them, the Great Artesian Basin, lies under 600,000 square miles of ths> country --more than one-fifth of the entire continent. The daily flow from these artesian basins has been estimated at about 400 million gallons. The quality of the water is usually fairly good. Much of the rain that tails on Australia sinks through the soil till it reaches an impervious rock layer. It runs along the top of this, perhaps some hundreds of feet below the soil, anr; eventually comes up as a spring. Off the eastern coast ot Australia fresh water wells up from subterranean springs and is often hauled up in buckets bv the Divers' Discovery Natives of some of the South Sea Islands dive for their fresh drinking water. They oiop in, with hollowed gourds, and kick their way down to the bottom of the sea. They hold the necks of the gourds over the bubbling spring till they are full. Ground ice, too, sometimes rises to the surface of the sea oft the Atlantic cost of America This, too, comes from suomarine springs. When the fresh water meets the cold sea-water, which is below freezing point, it freezes quickly. The ice, being lighter, rises to the surface. Large quantities of fresh water are found off the mouths of large rivers. Over a million cubic feet of water per second flow from the Amazon into the sea. This has been found--and drunk --as far as two hundred miles from the shore. It is a regular practice of some ships to stock up with fresh water oft the mouth of the Ama- CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Day's Work-Clevelond Indian slugger Al Rosen (centre; home plate at the Yankee Stadium in New York after hitting his season's 16th hcmer with two mates aboard. At left is Larry Doby, next Indian to bat, while Bobby Avila (right) offers bis congratulations after being batted in. The Yank< Yogi Berro. A week or so ago many thousands of the citizens of Chicago turned up at Wriglej Field, partly to see a ball game and partly to pay tribute to a character who, at an age when most ball-tossers are nursing dead arms and memories, still manages to do a pretty fair chore of mound duty. The character referred to is, of course, Dutch Leonard who admits to 43 years -- not so old as the one and only Satchel Paige, but still a remarkable age for an active pitcher. This durable Dutchman goes right on working, in spite of Father Time, chiefly because of the simple- device of throwing baseballs with his knuckles rather than his fingers. For some reason this style of pitching seems to require but little wear , and tear on the heaver's physical equipment. -The Cubs, who acquired Dutch sometime in 1949, might have saved themselves 20 years of Waiting for their bull pen stalwart. During 1929, a year noteworthy in other respects, young Dutch Leonard hitchhiked to Chicago from Auburn and promptly applied to the Cubs for a tryouf. At the time no one connected with the Wrigley Field outfit seemed interested, so the pitcher settled down to reaching his destination by a more circuit-out route. He finally got there, 12 railroad stops and 20 years later. In between Dutch had quite a career for himself in the American League. He was picked on six All-Star teams there, being the winning pitcher in the 1943 game. Casey Stengel had helped to make all of that possible by getting rid of Dutch after the 1936 season. That was during Stengel's dark, Brooklyn period, something the winner of four straight American League pennants does not talk about much these days. Such success as the scholarly Leonard has enjoyed with his knuckleball is attributable to another American League manager. Paul Richards did time with Leonard at Atlanta soon after Stengel let the pitcher go, it was under Richards' handling that Dutch really got the hang of throwing the knuckler. Richards caught the baffling pitch, or rather he stoically stayed with it where less courageous catchers would have given it up as a bad Flameproof Fireman -- Walking through flames unsinged is this German fireman seen above. He is demonstrating protective qualities of a flexible, aluminum fireproof suit at an exhibition held in Essen, Germany Ultimately both Richards and his knuckle-throwing buddy got back up t6 the big leagues where Dutch promptly repaid his benefactor by closing him out of a World Series. That came on the final day of the 1944 season when Leonard, then pitching for Washington, shut out Richards and the Detroit Tigers to enable St. Louis to squeak by into first place. Richards had only a year to wait, though, both he and the Tigers being participants in the winning 1945 series over the Leonard-less Chicago Cubs. Since going to the Cubs, Dutch has won his way onto a seventh All-Star roster. He set a club record last season by appearing in 45 games and finishing 35 relief jobs. Because of the way he works now it seems unlikely Dutch will reach his goal of winning 200 games in the majors. As of June 30 h*e was 10 games away, but being primarily a one, two or three-inning relief man he usually is not around long enough to become involved in many decisions. Last year, although he worked 67 innings, Dutch had only a 2-2 won-lbst record. Nevertheless he should be around helping the Cubs for some years. When he warms Up the knuckler in the bull pen it still takes two catchers to hold RELIEVED IN A JIFFY or money back ITCH Very first use of soothing, cooling, liquid D.D.D. Prescription positively relieves raw red itch--caused by eczema, rashes, scalp irritation, chafing--other itch troubles. Grease-less, stainless, 43c trial bottle must satisfy or money back. Ask your druggist for D.D.D. PRESCRIPTION. POST'S ECZEMA SALVE STOMACH SUFFERERS IVELTY BOOK 800 AT BIRD'S FUNERAL When a parrot was burried at Kanpur, in Central India, nearly 800 people were present. Said the grief-stricken owner: "My parrot was forty-four years old and spoke fluent Hindustani. 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