The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-02-05
STRENGTH TOCARRY
ON SETS OBSTACLES
ASIDE IN CONTESTS
Hundreds of Examples Can Be
Cited Where Injuries Are
Overcome
TONY LAZERRI is EXAMPLE
one-Armed BowIers, Basketball
Players and Cridsters Are
9 Almost Common
By HENRY l.. FARRELL

HandicapS? There are no such
things as physical handicaps when
there is great fighting heart to in
spirc the cripple or the physically de-
ficient to go on with his game.
1t took a great fighting heart for
Tony Lazzeri to play through world
series. dropping tears from the pain
that shot down his arm every time he
threw the ball.
1t was magnificent courage that
kept Adam Walsh playing for Notre
Dame against the Army football team
with two broken hands and for Red
Dunn to battle through whole game
for Marquette with an arm broken in
two places.
It was the impulse from superb
heart that kept little Jimmy Wilde
coming up off the floor in front of
Pancho Villa with his tongue hang
ing by thread and with his eyes
pounded shut. He couldn't see, hear
or talk. But he kept going.
Hundreds Of other examples might
be related of great bravery in action
on countless fields of battle.
spontaneous AOUI6kCs
The torture that a man inflictS
upon himself is one kind of courage.
The things that a brave man does
when it is up to him to do or die
come from spontaneous courage. The
zcst of competition and the thrill Of
action work up ordinary courage in
to a mad frenzy of devil-may-c
bravado.
But there is another kind of cour-
age. And perhaps more noble.
It is the kind OF courage that
springs from barren hope. The kind
of courage that inspires man to at
tempt the almost hopeless. And the
kind of courage that has to be worked
up cold.
Tom McAuliffe lost both arms at
the shoulder in an accident but he
didn't attempt to capitalize on hts
misfortune. He went into newspaper
work and became a golf writer in
spite of the handicap. He used pen
Gil in his mouth to strike the keys
on a typewriter.
He took up golf and became q fair
player in spite of his terrific handi-
cap.
John Mayor, a young Pennsyl-
vania boy, lost his left arm in rail-
road accident but the disability did
not keep him out of athletics when
he matriculated TT Temple Univers-
ity and he made the freshman bas-
ketball squad.
Handicaps Overlooked
Harland Eastwood, San Francisco
boy, is typical Of q number Of cases
where boys handicapped by the loss
Of an arm went into football and
made good and there have been in
stances where one-arm boys have
played on college and semi-pro base
ball teams.
Cudahy, Wis, boasts of q six-man
team Of fine bowlers and 1t is not
such q rarity to see a man on
clutches speeding q ball down the
alleys.
Defective eyesight, many times an
almost hopeless handicap in athletics,
has not prevented any number Of
performers from indulging in games
where personal contact or q flying
object made it hazardous to wear
glasses.
George Torporcer. Lee Meadows
and Carmen Hill were three baseball
players who wore glasses on the ma
jor league diamonds.
Wisconsin has two hockey players,
Mieklejohn and Kruger, who risk
the hazard Of wearing glasses in one
OF the most dangerous games Of all.
They wear guards over their eyes
but flying puck viii go through the
strongest guards.
Many basketball teams have used
players who wore glasses but Coe Col
lege is thought to have establishehd q
record by having four four -eyed play
ers on its team.