The Hemphill County News (Canadian, Tex), Vol. 11, No. 51, Ed. 1, Friday, August 26, 1949 Page: 3
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SPQRTUGHT
IS THE MAIN factor In
Wind
sport competition direct
thought or the subconscious mind
How much success belongs to quick
brain work and
how much to lntul
tlonTo
To help settle
this Issue we
called In the patri-
arch of brain-
waves the same
being John Kleran
who In his day was
a high class com
Grant and Illce petltor at Fordham
and who needs no
further comment when it comes to
a matter of brain action
The subconscious mind ac-
cording to Kleran does most of
the work The brain cant work
with the speed needed to handle too
many situations For example a
Jockey has less than a fifth of a
second on many occasions to de-
cide whether he must go Inside or
stay outside A Ted Williams will
often wait until the ball Is within
19 feet of the plate before he de
cldes to swing or not to swing
That Is another fifth of asccond
decision
I Some brains of course-
work faster than others Dut
there are few that can work
with splitsecond speed In mak-
ings a decision Subconscious
action takes over or Intuition
or whatever you want to call
itBoth
Both Eddie Arcaro and Ted At-
kinson bear out this angle in regard
to racing
Ill be moving up Arcaro said
and suddenly theres an opening
to the left I havent time to size
things up Your intuition acts for
you and sometimes your Intuition
can be wrong You can use your
brain In mapping out a race in ad
vance But once you get into fast
action youve got to depend a lot
on your reflexes or your Intuition
whichare the products of experi-
ence In fact I think this is where
experience counts most X mean In
giving you the right intuition
Boxing follows the same line
A younger fighter In his prime
sees an opening and punches
at practically the same Instant
Or he sees a punch coming and
ducks Later on be Is Just as
smart nis brain Is just as good
as It was years before But his
subconscious action has slowed
down bis Intuitive action has
Dy JOE
MAHONEY
Instinct Is Guide of the Great
By GRANTLAND RICE
gone rusty so he punches for
the opening too late or he
doesnt quite duck in time
Joe Louis for example had as
good a brain In 1048 as he had In
1938 but though he kept catching
Walcott In 1048 his subconscious
reactions were too slow to land a
knock out punch
Applied to Golf
Now golf Is a game J Kleran
continued that should be played
with a subconscious mind entirely
But It isnt The ball Isnt moving
so there Is the deadly temptation
to start thinking what club to use
etc This is when the trouble be-
gins
Remember that round Watts
Gunn had in the amateur at Oak
mont In 1025 I think Watts lost
the first five holes I know he was
being murdered Then suddenly he
seemed to settle into a trance and
he won the next IS holes 15 holes
In a row
I talked to htm later and Watts
admitted he didnt remember
thing that had happened in those
15 holes
I never thought of anything
he said I Just kept swinging the
club head I was In a sort of mental
groove
There was certainly no con
sclous effort in anything Gunn did
He went sailing through until he-
met Bobby Jones In the final round
where neither conscious nor sub-
conscious effort was of any use
Direct thought or brain action
has certainly wrecked many
round of golf Kleran continued
If a fellow could Just step up to
a ball and think about nothing at all
as he swung the club head scores
would take a terrific dive
Heres another thought along
theso lines Kleran reported
Ive known a lot of baseball and
football players Many of these
not all of them I wouldnt call too
smart I wouldnt say their brains
were too agile although they had
their share of good sense Ive seen
these fellows make few mistakes
They were generally where they
should have been Some instinct
seemed to guide them I know It
wasnt sharp thinking
Trying to Think
On the other hand Ive known
extremely Intelligent players I
mean intelligent off the field who
always seemed to be pulling some
boner or doing something wrong
By Harold Arnett
GASS FIRMS
SMOTHERED QUICKLY
WITH OLD TIRES
BORROWING AM IDEA FROM RANCHERS OF YESTERYEAR
WHO WOULD PUT OUT PRAIRIE FIRES BY DRAGGING A
HALF OP A BEEF CARCASS ACROSS THE FLAMES YOU
CAN PUT OUT GRASS FIRES BY USING AN OLD AUTO
TIRE IN A SIMILAR MANNER THE TIRE IS WIRED
TO THE END OP A LIGHTWEIGHT POLS AND
IS PULLED OVER THE BURNING GRASS
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T1IB IIEMPHtlA COUNTY NEWS CANADIAN TEXAS
FLYING DUTCHMAN This bespectacled horseman who shows very good form Is Prince Bern
hardt consort of Queen Juliana He Is taking his mount Veronlque over the hurdles In the country life
riding competition at Londons International horse show In White City The queen Is reported to be very
proud of her husbands horsemanship and not a bit perturbed by his high flying as many wires would
be She was In the stands during the show and enjoyed the antics of the horsemen as did other royalty
who attended the show with her While Red aggression hovers over Europe sports are a method of re-
lieving the tension of the people Horsemanship has always been the favorite sport of rulers and Is known
as the sport of kings
AMAZED Private Chester E Pike West Palm Beach Fla and Private Tirst Class Archie L Smith
Kelthsburg III try to figure their location from one of the direction Indicators In the Pentagon building
Washington D C These troopers were chosen from the 82nd Airborne division Fort Bragg NC to be among
the 25 outstanding soldiers of the month and awarded a trip to the nations capital They were graded on
their conduct performance of duty and soldierly appearance They were Introduced to outstanding figures
In the military establishment and government and were given an Idea of democracy In action
WELL STRIKE ME PINK The girls are the striken and the cop Is probably pink from embarrass-
ment Sent to keep order after a walkout of Paris seamstresses the gendarme found the strikers very
agreeable docile and at times affectionate Twelve thousand employees of the worldfamous Parisian fash-
Ion houses went on strike for fourcentsanhour raise Just before the couturiers planned to open their fall
showings The girls present average hourly wage Is 15 cents They later agreed to return to work after
agreement with their employers
PUBLIC ABEARANCE Britains lint tourJet airliner the new Comet da Ilvlland appears publicly
or tba lint time and successfully pisses Its lint flight Teat piloted by Capt John Cunningham war night
tighter the ship 8009 feet then lew at 100 Ictt The plane la expected to SO In
ace rose carry passengers a
cabin miles hour la the
pressurised at 49000 feet at 500 per In foreground Dn 10S used to cal
l eolale wing resistance stress and strain and speed ot the new craft Britain Is In the race to snatch soma
el the world passenger air line business from the Called State 0 course many mora lest lights of
tba new Comet will be necessary before It will ts ready for production for eommerlcil uae
PAGE THOEB
Gods Map for Me
Lesson for August tS 1949
did the writer of the Bible
HOW
think about the Bible We can
get part of theanswer by looking
at our Psalms for this week These
poets already possessed a part of
our Bible the Law some historical
books perhaps some of the Proph-
ets It was an Incomplete Bible
they had but they loved It
They did not think of It or use it
In some ot the mistaken ways you
may find some people thinking of
the Bible today They did not think
It was enough to
read a line or two
before going to bed
every night They
did not think that j
having a copy of it J
around would bring
good luck or scare
off demons They
said nothing about
the Bibles being
great literature
Dr Foreman
They were not at
all bothered by miracle stories In
Scripture they believed them and
took them as evidences ot the
mighty power of God see Psalm
105 They did not look on the Bible
as chiefly a dictionary of Donts
They did not think of it as a Sab-
bath book but rather as an every-
day one It did not strike them as-
a book of mystery
The Psalmists Blblo
IN reading Psalm 19 714 It Is in-
teresting to see how many differ-
ent things the Psalmist says about
the Word of God He calls It by
various names but that Is only be-
cause being a poet he likes to use
several words for the same thing
As for Psalm 105 where else but In
his Bible would the poet have
learned that story of Abraham
Isaac Jacob Joseph and the de-
liverance from Egypt
The reader of thl Fsalm will
observe that tbe subject of most
of the sentences la GOD As
the poet reviews his people
history he shows that It la not
simply the doings of the Israel-
ites but It Is God who brings
things to pass
Man proposes but God disposes
Is proverb which the writer of
a
Psalm 105 would approve Psalm 119
is known as an alphabetic or
acrostic poem It Is divided Into
22 sections each one exactly eight
verses long There are 22 letters In
the Hebrew alphabet and In the
Hebrew original of this Psalm each
verse of the first section begins
with the first letter of the Hebrew
alphabet Aleph In the next sec-
tion Beth and so on down to the
last letter Tau
Tlio Book of God
the writers of these Psalms
WHAT
said about the portlydone
Bible ot their times Is of course
even more true of the completed
Bible which Is our heritage as
Christians One thing they moke
clear is that this Is first of all Gods
book They knew as well as we do
that different human minds had a
part of it but for aU that it is
always God whose message comes
through what they wrote The Bible
properly understood reveals the
God
mind of God and the will of
The Bible reveals also the doings
of God His story Is the weaving ot
Gods eternal decrees on the looms
of time Again these poets see that
the Bible Is for man and about man
None of them thought ot It as-
a guide to heaven but rather as-
a road map or to guide ua
through the mazes of this world
Psalm 119 stresses this world
and no other as the world on
which Gods light shines
The commandments of God are
so many lengths of barbed wire to
fence us In rather road signs to
guide us on lifes open highway
The Bible presents the How of
living It Is Gods map for me
The Dlblo In The Heart
SENTENCE Thy word
THE
1 have I hid In my heart
Psalm 11911 is the clue to the
right use of the Bible When a
Hebrew writer says heart be
means something more than mere
emotion The word means char
acter what a man really Is A
young Korean was learning the
Sermon on the MounL but making
slow work of IL
When a missionary asked him
about It the boy said I have
to be slow First I learn
vene then I co out and live IL
I can learn the words in a few
minutes but It lakes longer
than that to live IL
That Is the right Idea Ona verse
translated Into living Is worth
mora than a chapter that never
gets deeper In than the tdge of tba
brain
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Miller, Othello Ontje. The Hemphill County News (Canadian, Tex), Vol. 11, No. 51, Ed. 1, Friday, August 26, 1949, newspaper, August 26, 1949; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth47619/m1/3/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.