A LEADING expert on brain and
muscular action has announced
that man’s mental and physical
prime or peak is around 33 years—
that most of his good work is done
before he is 40 and little of it after
50.
The expert admits that there are
certain exceptions, but he is taking
the general aver¬
age. He fixes the
physical peak
around 33 years in
the matter of age.
The mental peak
around 40. He may
be entirely correct
in sizing up the
mental side of the
argument. So many
golden autumns
have slipped by i , ,.i
since we were 33 Bill Tilden
that most of the de¬
tails are a bit hazy, But the expert
uses up too many years in calling
the athletic peak.
Here are just a few leading ex¬
amples—
1. Jack Dempsey was just 24 the
day he manicured Jess Willard and
In this Massacre of Maumee Bay,
Dempsey was at his peak. He was
better that hot July afternoon than
he ever was later on. He earned a
rtne-round knockout in that Toledo
assault, bell or no bell.
2. Ty Cobb was 25 when he turned
in his greatest season. This was in
1911, when Ty delivered 248 base
hits, 147 runs, 83 stolen bases and
a batting average of .420. He was
almost as good a year later with
a .410 average, but not quite up to
his 1911 collection. The two ages
of 25 and 26 found the Georgia Peach
at the top of a great career.
3. Babe Ruth was 33 years old
when he blasted his 60 home runs.
This was in 1927. But the Babe fired
59 four base blows in 1921 when he
was only 27. But it should be re¬
called that the Babe was a pitcher
until he reached the age of 25. He
was around 24 when he came to his
pitching prime.
Jones a Champ at 21
4. Bobby Jones found his best year
in 1930 when he ran into his Grand
Slam. He was then 28 years old.
A “Boy Wonder” at the age of 14,
he was 21 before he won his first
championship in 1923. While Jones
was only 28 when he retired from
active competition, he still had
known 15 seasons of hard, tourna¬
ment golf.
5. Big Bill Tilden was 26 before
he won his first major crown. His
top years ran from 26 to 31, although
he remained a star through another
decade. But you could name his
peak at 28 or 29 and not miss the
mark by many weeks.
6. Jim Thorpe, greatest all-around
athlete, came to his best year in 1912
when he was in the general neigh¬
borhood of 25 years. That was the
year Old Jim won the Olympic all-
around championship while also
playing his best football and base¬
ball.
You’ll find this cross section gives
you man’s athletic prime around 26
or 27. I mean the top ones. I could
name other examples. Walter Hag¬
en was 21 when he bagged his first
U. S. open crown in 1914 and he
was 26 when he won his last one at
Brae Burn in 1919. But after that
his British campaign was just as
brilliant.
The war cut into any Joe Louis
rating but you could name his 27th
year and not be far wrong.
And thqre’s the case of Mel Hein,
the Giant center now facing his 19th
or 20th football season, adding in
his college years at Washington
State. Hein’s peak was in the vicin¬
ity of his 27th or 28th year.
Value of Experience
The eminent expert in sizing up
the mental and physical side over¬
looked one important detail—it is
the physical side that collapses or
takes the first dip.
Many veterans still hang on, vet¬
erans with fading legs and fading
arms, through greater experience
and the smartness that only the
years can bring. These men have to
offer their brains against younger
legs and younger arms.
Jack Quinn was a winning pitcher
well beyond 40, after 26 years of
pitching. When some one asked Jack
how he could hang around so long
his answer was quite simple—“A
wife and six children.”
But the golden age of sport is still
youth—those years that run from 23
to 27. At the ages of 26 and 27 we
have the winning combination of
physical youth and experience. Pos¬
sibly the ages 22 or 23 would be the
big years physically, but they lack
the experience which later years
bring.
Knute Rockne never liked sopho¬
mores and John McGraw never
cared for rookies.
After all, there is no substitute
for experience, eight times out of
ten. In this diagnosis we must stick
with the general average—not with
the exceptions. In sport the best
physical years would be around 23—
the top mental years around 28.
“As a matter of fact,” several well
known trainers tell me, “the ideal
physical age, minus experience, is
around 21 or 22. It is experience
and the know-how that make 26 or
27 the better yea£S&^
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in WASHINGTON
By Walter Shead
WNU Correspondent
WNU Washington Bureau,
1616 Eye St., N. W.
D()C tors’ Lobby Fights
Socialized Medicine
. . r HAT happens, or what does not
\V happen here in Washington
iifcongress, .mimes gives cause for wonderment
if leaders in the fields
f economics, of agriculture, indus-
L labor, social relations, etc.,
(actually know what the people are
inking, what the people of the na-
j on want or need. It is easy for
ers0 ns down here in the nation’s
apital where events happen so fast
n d with such far-reaching effect, to
0S e the “common touch.”
And the cause for most of the
lindness and the out-of-focus per-
pective is self-interest and the self-
sh activities of various pressure
'roups. present time, there is
At the a
remendous lobby functioning
gainst the extension of the social
:ecurity act to include medical care
nd hospital insurance and other
rotective features for low income
;roups. This lobby is spearheaded
y an organization known as the
Jafional Physicians committee,
nth headquarters in Chicago.
Every effort is being made by this
pposition to defeat the provisions
f the new social security amend-
,ents, all in the face of the wants,
eeds and desires of those for whom
'ie benefits are intended. Labor is
lidly behind the new social securi-
proposals and a survey just com¬
pleted by the department of agricul¬
ture indicates that this same con¬
cern is voiced by farmers the coun-
! ?y over.
ospital Insurance
The survey shows that more
than four-fifths of the nation’s
farmers favor more public med¬
ical clinics in rural areas, and
more than three-fourths want to
subscribe to some flat-rate pre¬
payment plan to cover possible
hospital bills and the cost of
doctors and nurses for them¬
selves and their families. This
(is the hospitalization insurance
. feature of the new proposals.
IThe answers to the department
nrvey indicate that farmers gen-
rally are conscious and concerned
bout the need for better rural med¬
ial and health facilities. They are
Bare that farm youth, 18 and 19
iars old, showed the highest re-
ction rate in the selective service
r physical, mental and education-
defects of any occupational group
j. rerage • 41 per of cent, 25 compared cent for with other an
per
roups.
Intribute Many factors, the survey shows,
to bad rural health . . .
je j>n shortage facilities of and medical the lack and of sanita- physi-
pns, dentists and hospital serv¬
es. |e Many of these rural folks
in the low income groups which
puld nendments, be reached since in by 1939, the approxi- new
ptely tms in 3,000,000 the out of the 6,000,000
$600 country produced less
pn worth of farm products,
J70 phe records show that out of the
^Jere counties in the country, in 1940
were 1,200 counties contain-
a total of more than 15,000,000
^n°ple, which had no hospitals at
I- And there were only about 1,800
bnties with any organized pub-
f health ^adequate. service, and most of
ese According to the
timates of the surgeon general of
B United States, there is need
w f or some $2,000,000 in hospital
instruction which would provide
r 1.000,000 jobs including doctors,
F ses > technicians and assistants to
e P them going.
edical Care Wanted
nools, j^imal roads husbandry, and bridges, consolidated soil
reservation an d crop insurance,
^cultural experiment stations,
ist a £ r icultural laboratories and
an y other material objectives
e fostered through governmental
P for the benefit of the rural
aa s. Many, many farmers, how-
r, believe that assurance of
™cal and hospital care for them-
7 fportant es and their families are more
than building roads, con-
- ang dams or saving soil, and
no Pyice is too high for a
5 , t ,
vigorous and productive
eath satisfies rate from show all that although for
causes
(•pl aSt severa l decades has been
- among rural people than ur-
htaKi ’ dea th s from some pre-
Li, e diseases . such as typhoid,
&ri ’ ma ^ ar i a and pellagra
id t 0 K be more
31 People. , numerous among
^ore ov erj the ra t |j
e een
ra P idl y in the cities, but
|e y j lowl y in the rural areas.
rpr. °rds show that folks
reEs in the
c are oftener and for
|; l-’adef Pr r e 7K ds than city
P e °P le -
L " tue social security law
Jrker We S a n 8. ° a W inst 36 > 000 unemployment, >°00 insured
; n insurance
her ° for farmers
rvivorJ* tr u P Pl°ynient,
em old age or
uid msuran ce. The new act
ions' py. these Iatter
♦ . two Pro-
sionai 10 lnc lude farmers, pro-
srs n P eo Pl e > domestics and
not now covered by the l#w.
THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GA.. THURSDAY, OCTOIiER 4, 1945
THROWING THE BULL
Among the stories which have
crossed the ocean about those fabu¬
lous British Commandos is this sto¬
ry of one who had spent a long eve¬
ning with friends at the village inn.
They showed him a quick way home
across the fields, forgetting that the
local bull was loose.
The bull attacked, not recognizing
the Commando’s red beret. The un¬
fortunate animal was gripped by the
horns and lugged about the field un¬
til it managed to break free and
bolt.
“Pity I had those last two drinks,”
said the soldier-matador. “I ought
to have got that chap off his bike.”
Good Neighbor Policy
Jones looked over his garden
fence and beckoned to his neighbor.
“I say, Smith,” he said confiden¬
tially, “I understand you have
Brown’s lawn mower.”
“Yeah, what of it?”
“Well, if you’ll let me borrow it
occasionally, I’ll let you use his
rake and shovel.”
Sports Item
Mother — You were supposed to
come home from the ball game in
an hour, and you stayed nearly two
hours.
Boy—It really wasn’t my fault,
mother. I tried to steal home in the
fifth inning, and they wouldn’t let
me.
HE GOT PLENTY!
Mr.—While I was out with the
boys last night, a burglar broke into
our house.
Neighbor—Did he get anything?
Mr.—I’ll say he did. My wife
thought it was me!
Something Missing
Mother—Jimmie, you appear to
have been at the jam again.
Jimmie — Don’t go by appear¬
ances, mother.
Mother — No, I go by disappear¬
ances.
Rational Behavior
Mrs.—Is it true that the butcher
got so fed up with the meat short¬
age that he closed his shop and went
on a vacation?
Mr.—Yes, he’s gone on a- meat
loaf.
Long and Short of It
Wifie — Does the newspaper give
any description of the missing cash¬
ier?
Hubbie—Yes, he was about 5 feet,
5 inches tall and about $70,000 short.
Starting Even
She—I see by the paper that a boy
who speaks six languages has just
married a girl who speaks three.
He—I’d say that is about the right
handicap.
Winter Winds
Myron—This is certainly terrible
weather!
Byron—Yes, all it’s fit for is con¬
versation.
History Lesson
Teacher—What did Caesar say
when Brutus stabbed him?
Boy—Ouch!
Golf Yarn
Brother—I made a hole in one.
Sis—One stroke?
Brother—No, one sock.
THANKSGIVING
Mr.—May I have the afternoon off
to go shopping with my wife?
Boss—No; certainly not!
Mr.—Thank you very much.
Extra Long
Mrs.—I saw a swell show this
afternoon, but I couldn’t stay for
the last act.
Mr.—Why not?
Mrs.—They said it took place a
month later.
Double Trouble
Bess—I hear Jack’s dad has two
wives to support.
Tess—You don’t mean he’s a biga¬
mist?
Bess—No, but Jack just got mar¬
ried.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
By VIRGINIA VALE
XI/'HEN Ann Sothern’s 8-
rf months-old daughter Patri¬
cia is old enough to aspfire to fill
her mother’s shoes, she’ll have a
complete set of “Maisie” films
and airshow recordings to study.
Mama (who is Mrs. Robert Ster¬
ling in private lif e), has had each
of her “Maisie” movies reduced to
16 mm. sound film for her daugh¬
ter’s library. And since she started
the Wednesday night CBS radio se¬
ries she’s had special recordings
made of each broadcast. Incidental¬
ly, the latest popularity rating of
the “Maisie” broadcasts shows a
marked increase over the previous
survey—in fact, a gain of nearly 3,-
000,000 listeners in a single month I
* * *
Lt. Wayne Morris has returned to
his screen career at Warner Bros,
with a brand new contract. He en¬
listed in the navy immediately
after Pearl Harbor, and earned his
commission while in the service. A
WAYNE MORRIS
fighter pilot with seven enemy
planes to his credit, he’s won
plenty of decorations, among them
the Distinguished Flying Cross with
two stars and the Air Medal.
When you see Jose Iturbi dashing
around on that motorcycle in “An¬
chors Aweigh” he’s just being nat¬
ural. He drives that same vehicle
just that way around the studio all
the time—and nobody’ll ride with
him, not for love, money, or even a
new contract.
* • •
Una O’Connor, one of Hollywood’s
most versatile character actresses,
makes a good bit of extra money
each year by doing the crying for
screen babies who refuse to wail
when the director wants them to.
She calls this extra-curricular prof¬
it “tear money” and invests it in
war bonds. The voice of the weep¬
ing infant in “Christmas in Con¬
necticut” is hers; she also has an
on-stage role in the picture.
• * *
Those wise men of the motion pic¬
ture industry, the exhibitors, voted
this way in the Motion Picture Her¬
ald’s annual poll to determine the
stars of tomorrow: 1. Dane Clark;
2. Jeanne Crain; 3. Kennan Wynne;
4. Peggy Ann Garner; 5. Cornel
Wilde; 6. Tom Drake; 7. Lon Mc-
Callister; 8. Diana Lynn; 9. Mari¬
lyn Maxwell; 10. William Eythe.
That’s a prophecy worth remember¬
ing.
• • *
Eleanor Parker of “Pride of the
Marines,” who’ll have the feminine
lead in “Humoresque,” is regarded
as the shyest star in Hollywood.
Doesn’t go to night clubs, doesn’t
show off at public functions, never
attends a premiere of her own pic¬
tures unless completely disguised.
• • *
Tuesday night on NBC is dedi¬
cated to laughter. There’s Amos ’n
Andy at 9:00 p. m., E.P.T.; “A
Date with Judy” precedes them,
and a climax is reached with Fib¬
ber McGee and Molly following.
« * • *
If you’ve ever wondered what the
studio audience was laughing at,
when listening to a broadcast, and
felt annoyed because you couldn’t
share the fun, you’ll agree with
Kate Smith’s manager, Ted Collins,
who feels that too many radio stars
play up to the studio audience, to
the detriment of their radio per¬
formances. That’s why Kate has
eliminated studio audiences on her
new Friday night series.
• * *
Danny O’Neil has been signed for
his first network commercial series
as star of the new Powder Box the¬
ater, beginning October 11, Thurs¬
day nights on CBS. The series re¬
places “Rhythm, Romance and Rip¬
ley.” Evelyn Knight and Jim
Ameche are also featured.
* * *
ODDS AND ENDS—Extras who kissed
Shirley Temple in the kissing-booth se¬
quence of Columbia's and Tell” were
paid fl6.50 a day—those who merely stood
in line got . . . RKO is so enthusi¬
astic about Frankie Carle's first picture,
“Riverboat Rhythmthat he’ll be starred
in a bandleader story. . .. According to the
latest Hooper survey, “Mr. District Attor¬
ney” ranks second in popularity among all
radio programs. . . . For the next two
months Ethel Barrymore will play her co-
starring role in “Some Must Watch" in
bed—the script, not her health, is respon¬
sible; Dorothy McGuire and George Brent
share honors, on their feet.
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