THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 13, 1940.
Dizzy Dean, Paychek Eclipsed; Writer Compares Two Athletes
DEAN WAS GREAT PERSONALITY
Within the past month two men whose names were known even if momentarily to the majority of the 125,000,000 Americans have passed out of the sporting picture of which they were part, writes Jack Guinther from New York.
The first was Dizzy Dean, who lasted eight or nine years. The second was Johnny Paychėk, who
·lasted eight or nine weeks.
JOE LOUIS
CUP
COMPETITIONS
TO FIGHT TWICE YEARLY MAY BE
Joe Louis, world's DROPPED
heavy-weight cham- pion, will defend his.... title only twice next year, both times in out-door engage: ments, his managers announced, in New York last week. They said as long as Louis holds the title, he will defend it only twice annually. United Press.
KEIFER CRACKS OWN
RECORD
years, presided and informed the
Adolf Keifer, veteran Olympic star from Chicago's Lake Shore Athletic club, last week broke his own world record in the 100-meter [backstroke at Santa Barbara, Cal., by covering the distance in 1 min., 4.7 seconds, one-tenth of a second better than the mark he set in De- troit in 1936.-United Press.
A recommendation that to play several games in a short the incoming Council time, while many week-ends were
wasted earlier in the season. seriously consider the Mr. W. Pryde, chairman of the abandonment of several Association for the past three of the Cup: Competitions Council that owing to pressure of so as to allow more time of work he would not be secking
|re-election. for the smooth running of. It was also decided that priority of the League and then the Shield the League and Shield
competitions, should take place competitions was made at over all other competitions
this the Annual General Meet-season..
The election of officers nomin- ing of Hong Kong Foot-ated to serve on the Council
the ensuing year was as follows: ball Association, held yes-President--H: E. Mr. N. L. Smith.
Vice-Presidents:-Mr, W. Pryde Ci- terday.
vilians), Hon. Mr. M. KL6 (Chinese) Another suggestion: was that and Comdr. W. P. McCarthy (Scr- our knowledge of his characteris-areds of thousands of breakfast
the Cups which were not.com- vioes),
Chairman:-Mr. Wong Kasun. tics is second hand but we have tables; thrills to hundreds of thou- which, you never can. give. Pay-peted for this year, be played for been led by printed reports to sands of baseball fans; thousands chek. That is this: Ol Diz never bi-annually,
Representative of Junior, Teams;— believe he was a blow-hard and of dollars to the pockets of
Mr. C.-Guimgam. the would have gone down before These recommendations, arose
At the conclusion of they meeting. Army that there may have been a few men who employed him. Certainly anyone not even Joe Louis out of a suggestion, by
Comdr. McCarthy proposed" a hearty aces missing from his deck. he gave as much as he got. And without raising, plenty of hell as that the fixture list be adhered to vote of thanks to Mr. Pryce for his with due cognizance of all his long as he had two arms one of as much as possible. He cited in-invaluable services as Chairman of the faults, you can give him credit them. bad at that.
stances last year when teams had Council for the past three years,:fil
There is little connection be- unfair contrast, that of the pitcher tween the two of them except who was all arm and no head and that they fall into the group loose-the boxer who, was all style. Ol' ly defined as athletes, they went Diz, and we say it knowing that Deans and into eclipse together and they there will be other were almost extreme opposites. other Paycheks before the great Dean has gone back to the min-day comes. Diz was a Zany, ors at the age of 29; Paychek has bully-boy and a spoiled brat, but returned to, wherever it was he he filled his niche. came from at the age of 25. It is unlikely, while not impossible, that either will make a comeback.
Since we met Dean only
..
DEANS TALENT
once,
Yet in throwing a ball across a given target Dean had talent. He had more than talent; it may even have been lower-case genius. He didn't stand what the oldsters call the test of time because he burn- ed out too soon for that. Still, he won the amazing total of 120 ma- jor league games in five years and pitched 1,528 innings in doing it. These figures showed rather con- clusively that Diz wasn't the only one to blame for his bad arm. Certainly no man can Say he! didn't carry his share of the St. Louis lead, even though he may have had to be pampered into doing it. And no man can say he didn't have heart, even in 1938- after his arm was dead- when: he floated his nothing ball at the Yankees for seven immortal in- nings.
was a
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Now take Paychek. He model young man in his trade. In his street clothes he resembled a doctor or a lawyer more than prize fighter. He was quiet, cour- teous and modest. He was up among 'em too short a time for accurate conclusions, but it is a certainty that he never would have given thought to immortal lines or impetus to such stories as those which surrounded Dean with an aura of wackiness. Pay- chel: never would have been at- tacked by an electric lamp, for instance. In short, he was sin- cere and polite but dull.
NO RED HERRING
equip-
As for his professional ment we drag out no red herring in suggesting that there may have been the faint taint of the phoney] about his victory streak. Even
if there was, however, jouncing Johnny may not have known it. All that matters is that he came into Madison Square Garden for a championship bout equipped with a fair record, a good, head and enough boxing skill to déceive] such a shrewd judge as Benny Leonard. He went out again with- out even throwing a punch and without making any attempt to either fight or defend himself.
Perhaps this is a cruel or even
CRACK GOLFERS BEGIN TOURNEY
Despite inclement weather and the threat of a heavy downpour, more than a dozen of America's top-ranking golf stars, including both amateurs and professionals, teed-off in Washington last week] for the start of the newly-in- augurated Red Cross War Rellef Fund Benefit Tournament spon- sored by leading local citizéps.
The list of golfers who braved the drizzle and appalling golf con- ditions to start the tourney -fn-| cluded such established gallery : attractions 09 Lawson Little, Henry Plcord, Gene Sarazen, Ralph Guldahl, Sam Snead, Paul Runyan, Jimmy Thomson, Horton Smith and Bobby Cruickshank – United PresD.7.
GIVE HIM CREDIT
1
He brought laughter to hun-
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