1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 This is Retro Sports Radio. Visit RetroSeasons.com for more sports history. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Listen to Leo DeRotier. Chimney Sweep, America's number one soot destroyer, presents the famous fiery manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Leo DeRotier, in a sparkling new 15 minute program, your sports question box. 3 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:30,000 You send in the questions, any question on any sport or game, and Leo answers it. For every question used, Chimney Sweep soot destroyer pays the sender $5. 4 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:41,000 And the question considered by Leo the most interesting nets the sender $50. Compliments of Chimney Sweep. Send in your question tonight. All questions become the property of Chimney Sweep. 5 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:47,000 And here's the masterminding manager of those dashing slam bang Brooklyn Dodgers, Leo DeRotier. 6 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:51,000 Hi, you sport fans. This is DeRotier speaking. And this is Frank Chase. 7 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,000 Sticks his oar in every chance he gets. Let's get to the questions, Chase. 8 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:59,000 You know, without me, DeRotier, there'd be nobody to ask you these questions. 9 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:07,000 I can think of a lot worse things happening to me. You can. I can. You know, I got a kick out of standing here and trying to stick you with the customer's inquiries. 10 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Yeah. I sort of guessed you liked your end of the work, so today, guess what? 11 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,000 What? 12 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:19,000 I've got a question for you. Okay, give. I'll get to it, Chumsy. I'll get to it. Let's attend to the listeners for the time being. 13 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:24,000 Okay. Number one is from Jay Tobin of Niagara Falls, New York. 14 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Just remember, we'll get back to you later. 15 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:33,000 I'll remember. Mr. Tobin asks, is it possible for three men to be retired with only two pitched balls? 16 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,000 That's a chestnut from the year one. 17 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:40,000 Maybe Mr. Tobin is in his baseball infancy and he's still waiting for the answer. 18 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:46,000 Yes, it's possible, but not very likely. For three men to be ruled out on two pitched balls, the umpire would- 19 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,000 A dear friend of Mr. DeRotier's, as you've no doubt heard, Mr. Tobin. 20 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,000 You're killing me, Chase. Now clam up and let me go on. 21 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:59,000 To knock off three batters on two pitched balls, the umpire would have to make use of a rule which is very seldom enforced. 22 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:08,000 It is section two of rule 44 and says, the batter is out if he fails to take his position within one minute after the umpire has called for the batsman. 23 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:13,000 The first two men could be put out on the very first two pitched balls any way you choose. 24 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:22,000 But then that guy in the blue suit would have to dig into the rule book, like I said, in order to declare the third man out for not taking his place in the batter's box in time. 25 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Five dollars to you for that question, Mr. Tobin. And here's one from George Ludlam of East Dorset, Vermont. 26 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:33,000 Mr. Ludlam asks, in weighing English prize fighters, what is a stone? 27 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:38,000 That's a very interesting question, Mr. Ludlam, and one well worth a five dollar chimney sweep check. 28 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,000 Watch your job, Ken. The lip is taking over the commercials. 29 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Yeah, can't you hear my knees rattle? 30 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Were those your knees, Roberts, all along? I thought they were your brains. 31 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:52,000 As sweet a guy as ever I worked with. But Mr. Ludlam still wants to know his answer. 32 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:57,000 And here's Mr. Ludlam's question again. In weighing English prize fighters, what is a stone? 33 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:06,000 It's 14 pounds. So if Ludlam is Junior Wellerweight champion and weighs 140 pounds, he'd be the ten stone champion of England. 34 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Mr. Ludlam would also like to know, in measuring horses, what is a hand? 35 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:18,000 That's four inches. And if Mr. Ludlam is also a horse and is ten hands high, that makes him three and a third feet tall. 36 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,000 And I'd be delighted to put on the gloves with him. 37 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:26,000 I'll report your agreeableness, Leo. In the meantime, we'll send Mr. Ludlam a five spot, which he can leave to his widow and children. 38 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,000 And now a word from Ken Roberts. 39 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Friends, go easy on that coal shovel this winter. 40 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Planting in the fuel won't push up the temperature of your home until you clean soot out of your heating plant. 41 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:42,000 Soot wastes fuel, steals heat. 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It's America's number one Soot Destroyer. 51 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:33,000 And for a much warmer, much cleaner home, just sprinkle Chimney Sweep on the fire every week. 52 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:37,000 And now back to Leo DeRosha and Frank Chase and your questions on sports. 53 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Here's a question on golf, Leo, and it comes from Barbara Rogers of Philadelphia. 54 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,000 A member of Roger Wilkoen out, no doubt. 55 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Keep your feet on the ground, Leo, and listen to the lady's question. 56 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:55,000 She says, I just started to play golf last summer, and one day my opponent said she would give me five bisques. 57 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Not wanting to display my ignorance, I didn't like to ask what she was talking about. 58 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,000 But I would like to ask you, what is a bisque? 59 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:07,000 A bisque, Miss Rogers, is a handicap of one stroke that you can take wherever you choose. 60 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:14,000 If your opponent gave you five bisques, it meant that you could take five strokes all on one hole, 61 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,000 or scatter them wherever they would do you the most good. 62 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:24,000 Whereas, if she'd given you five strokes, you would have had to take each stroke on the hole specified on the scorecard. 63 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,000 Just remember one thing, Miss Rogers. 64 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:32,000 You have to take your bisque, or bisques, on any given hole before you tee off on the next hole. 65 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:36,000 And Leo, you know the term bisque is also used in tennis. In that game, it means a point. 66 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,000 You always have to know more than I do. 67 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,000 Oh, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings, Leo. 68 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,000 Well, you sound money-happy when you do. 69 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Well, that's not bicker, Bob, and get on to the next problem. 70 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Well, first send Miss Roger five dollars. 71 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:50,000 I'll do that. And now, Zach Yates of Suffolk, Virginia, wants to talk about money. 72 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,000 There's a guy after my own heart. How much does he want to give me? 73 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:58,000 Not a penny. Mr. Yates is interested in authenticating that story. 74 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:03,000 But Tunney received a check for a million dollars for his 1927 fight with Dempsey in Chicago. 75 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:08,000 Well, that one has been argued all over the place. But here's the story as I've heard it. 76 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Tech's record guaranteed Gene Tooney 37.5% of the gate for that Chicago battle. 77 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:21,000 And when they finished counting the fans, Tooney's percentage came to 990,445 dollars. 78 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 That still ain't a million. 79 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:31,000 Now, aren't you the clever lad? Gene first gave Rickard a personal check for his own for 9,555 dollars. 80 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:36,000 Then, just for the thrill of it, and in order to make a good story for the newspaper boys, 81 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Rickard handed Tooney his check for one million dollars. 82 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,000 But you say the story isn't true, Leo. 83 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:46,000 I didn't say anything of the kind. I merely said it had never been verified. What's next? 84 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,000 We're in a bowling alley this time, Leo. 85 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,000 Radio's a wonderful thing, all right. With just a word or two, we can change the entire scene. 86 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:57,000 Right. John Conley, Jr. of Glen Cove, New York, presents this problem. 87 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:04,000 A bowler knocks down nine pins with his first ball, leaving the tenth pin wobbling back and forth. 88 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:09,000 Being somewhat nearsighted, he fails to notice the wobbling pin and rolls his second ball. 89 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:16,000 But before the second ball is halfway down the alley, the tenth pin finally tumbles over. 90 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,000 Does the bowler get credit for a strike or a spare? 91 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Neither one. In bowling, it's against the rules to roll your second ball while any of the pins are unsteady. 92 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:33,000 If you do, any pin that falls down, in this case the tenth pin, is set up again, and you have to take your second shot over. Next? 93 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:37,000 On basketball from R. Thomas of Birmingham, Alabama. 94 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,000 What all does Mr. Thomas all want us to tell him all? 95 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:49,000 He all says like this, Leo. In a basketball game, a player trying to bat the ball away from his own basket, accidentally bats it right in. 96 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,000 Two points for the opposition and a vote of thanks. Next question. 97 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,000 Wait a moment. There's more. 98 00:07:54,000 --> 00:08:03,000 Realizing what he's done, and before the ball touches the floor or any other player, he shoots it back through the basket from the underside and out over the rim. 99 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,000 Sort of unraveling his own goal, you mean. 100 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:06,000 Yeah, that's the idea. 101 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:14,000 Well, it doesn't make any difference. Still two points for his opponents. Once a ball is dropped through the basket, nothing else matters. The score is good. 102 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,000 You're a hard man, DeRosha. 103 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,000 Well, it comes from banging my head against guys like you. 104 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:19,000 Here's our next problem. 105 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,000 Save it, chum. I got one for you this time, remember? 106 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:25,000 Oh, yeah. This is where you try and put me on the spot, eh? 107 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:31,000 That's right. But to show you what a square guy I am, I'll let Ken Roberts help you out, if he can. 108 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,000 You mean we can gang up on you, two against one? 109 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:35,000 That's kid stuff in my league. 110 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:41,000 Okay, Ken. Let's stick our chins way out and give the lip the poke at us that he's been looking forward to. 111 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:53,000 Get a large load of this, you eggheads. Here's the question. There's two out. The bases are loaded. The next batter hits a home run, and not a man scores. What's the answer? 112 00:08:53,000 --> 00:09:01,000 Wait a moment. Two out, the bases loaded. The next batter up hits a home run, and nobody scores. Not a man scores. 113 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Right. That don't seem possible. 114 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:04,000 I saw it happen. 115 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:12,000 Well, now, just a minute. There's only one thing I can think of that might be wrong with that, Leo. Does the batter or any of the, do any of the runners forget to touch one of the bases? 116 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,000 They did not. They touched all bases. 117 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:16,000 All the bases were touched? 118 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:17,000 They were. 119 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,000 And the home run was a fair ball. 120 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:20,000 It was. 121 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,000 And the run scored? 122 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:23,000 Not a man scores. 123 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:24,000 I said not a man scores. 124 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:25,000 I don't get it. 125 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,000 I don't get it either, Leo. 126 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:27,000 Do you give up? 127 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:28,000 I give up. 128 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000 Remember, I said not a man scores. 129 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,000 We got that. 130 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:32,000 It was a girls' game. 131 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:33,000 Oh, please. 132 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:36,000 Oh, no, Leo. What were you doing watching a girls' game? 133 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:37,000 Two geniuses, huh? 134 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,000 Well, you've had your fun. Now back to the custom. 135 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:41,000 Okay. What is it this time? 136 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:47,000 This time we come to the most interesting question of the week. Where does the expression behind the eight ball originate? 137 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:58,000 And taking up my cue, I have a few facts to lay on the table. If any of you listeners are behind the eight ball because of dirty or sooty chimneys, you can clean up the whole situation with chimney sweep. 138 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:08,000 Soot may look harmless enough, but look out for it. 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Use chimney sweep in coal and oil furnaces, coal and wood fireplaces, stoves. 144 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:49,000 Get chimney sweep soot destroyer tomorrow, only one dollar or a dollar eighty-nine. 145 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:54,000 All hardware, department, and chain stores. Chimney sweep is on sale in Canada too. 146 00:10:54,000 --> 00:11:01,000 Don't accept an imitation. Insist on chimney sweep. Genuine chimney sweep soot destroyer. 147 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:06,000 And remember, be sure and sprinkle chimney sweep on the fire every week. 148 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,000 And now, back to the most interesting question of the week. 149 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:19,000 This week's most interesting question was sent in by W.W. Lewis of Louisiana, and is, as I said before, a query on how the expression behind the eight ball originated. 150 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:23,000 Well, I suppose he figures me as a guy who should certainly know if anybody does. 151 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:28,000 Well, it is rumored, Leo, that you sometimes live behind the eight ball for weeks on end. 152 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:32,000 Well, you ain't just saying it. I'm thinking of having the place air conditioned. 153 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:36,000 But maybe Mr. Lewis would like it better if we gave him his answer without wasting any more time. 154 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:37,000 And so? 155 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:42,000 Nobody knows for certain, Mr. Lewis, where, when, or how that expression came into being. 156 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:47,000 But here's our guess. There are fifteen balls on a pool table numbered from one to fifteen. 157 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:51,000 Numbers one to seven are solid colors, and numbers nine to fifteen are striped. 158 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:56,000 Moreover, the eight ball right in the middle is dead black and is the only black ball on the table. 159 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:05,000 Right. Now, in the game known as black ball, one player has to sink all the solid colored balls while his opponent tries to sink the ringers. 160 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:10,000 When a player's object balls have all been made, he then sinks the eight ball and wins the game. 161 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:18,000 But according to the rules, if a player pockets the eight ball before he has cleared his object ball, he loses the game just like that. 162 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:24,000 Get the idea? Let's suppose you're one of the players, Mr. Lewis, and your cue ball is penned in the corner. 163 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:28,000 Not a quarter of an inch separates the eight ball and the cue ball. How are you fixed? 164 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:33,000 You're in a tough spot, Mr. Lewis, or in other words, you're behind the eight ball. 165 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:37,000 And that sends fifty dollars to you, Mr. Lewis, with the congratulations of chimney sweep. 166 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:43,000 Yep. And the next time you get yourself behind the eight ball, Mr. Lewis, just give it a good busting the nose for me. 167 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:47,000 Why, with all your practice, Leo, I should think you could do your own busting in the nose. 168 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,000 Frank, I'm behind the eight ball so much that my hand is getting sore from hitting it. 169 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:56,000 And now, sports fans, we'd like to tell you how to make a five dollar hit or a fifty dollar hit on this program of yours. 170 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:00,000 Just send in the questions, any question on any sport or any card game. 171 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:05,000 For every question used on any program, we'll mail the sender five dollars, but that's not all. 172 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,000 If your question is judged most interesting of the week, we'll mail you a check for fifty dollars. 173 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,000 Just write your question on a plain piece of paper and be sure to include your name and address. 174 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:18,000 Mail to Leo DeRosier, American Broadcasting Company, New York City, 20, New York. 175 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:26,000 This is Leo DeRosier saying, see you next week, same time, same station, when I'll be back for chimney sweep with more answers to your Sports Question Box. 176 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:30,000 Meantime, remember in golf, it's heads down. In life, it's heads up. 177 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,000 Friends, don't let soot in your heating plant start a chimney fire. 178 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:38,000 Don't let soot clog your furnace flues and perhaps cause a dangerous coal gas explosion. 179 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:42,000 Don't let soot steal heat, too, and dirty up your home. 180 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:48,000 Get Chimney Sweep Soot Destroyer tomorrow from any hardware department or chain store and start using it right away. 181 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:56,000 If your dealer happens to be out of Chimney Sweep, just mail one dollar along with your name and address to Chimney Sweep Orange, New Jersey. 182 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,000 That's Chimney Sweep Orange, New Jersey. 183 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:03,000 And we'll see that you receive your Chimney Sweep Soot Destroyer promptly and post-paid. 184 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,000 Your Sports Question Box is the original production of Frank Chase. 185 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:18,000 This is Ken Roberts speaking.