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Of.SfkET TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1975 The S&K Lake Wednesday, October Trfbu.-rf-t. r r 15'- - 25, 1875 A tribute to the entertainers A tribute to the enterarid women who brought hap- tainers, the men piness, diversion and enjoyment to millions of Americans throughout the growth of the nation, will appear in a mult- imedia aboard Train. presentation the Freedom Films, video tapes, re- cords, costumes and memorabilia of stars from vaudeville, the silent screen, motion pictures, TV and radio are the among . fascinating items contained in the train's 2,O'year view of U.S. art, entertainment, exploration, govern- -' ment, literature, science and sports. trains moving The walkway takes visitors past four continuously operating movie projectors, showing such clas- Hank Aaron's bat and bail with which he hit the record-tiein- g 7 4th homerun are part of the baseball portion of the car devoted to sports' achievements. sics as a Charlie Chaplin silent epic and A1 Jolson Vital part of heritage Feller and Ted Williams; the bats of Roberto Clemente, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Stan Musial and Heinne Grohs bottle bat. The bat Henry Hank Aaron used to hit his historic 714th home run and the ball that sailed out of the park in Cincinnati will be on display as part of the Freedom Train's Bicentennial tribute to the impact of sports on American life. Sammy Davis wanted to buy it (the ball) aud a lot of other people wanted it, Aaron explained, but now its been loaned to The American Freedom Train and thousands of youngsters throughout the country will be able to see it." Films, video tape replays, uniforms, sports equipment, Olympic medals and trophies covering 200 years of U.S. sports are among the fascinating array of documents and memorabilia contained in multi-medpresentations aboard the train. Visitors to Car 7 will see displays on baseball, football, basketball, golf, tennis, swimming, horse racing, auto racing, ice hockey, rodeo and lacrosse. Sports items range from a Cherokee lacrosse stick and ball to a 1775 putter, from the basketball used in 1908 in the first national collegiate championship game (Chicago University defeated the University of to a fingerless baseball glove Pennsylvania, and the 1878 patent model for a catchers mask. The mask was originally invented for use by Jim Tyng, Harvard catcher, who, ironically, joined the National League as a Boston pitcher. monitors continuously The trains multiple-scree- n replay great moments in baseball juxtaposing a homer by Ruth with one by Aaron, a toddler in Mobile, Ala., when Ruth slammed his 714th homer. The same monitors also enable baseball fans to Bobby Thomsons dramatic ninth inning, three-ru- n homer that gave the New York Giants a 4 win over the Brooklyn Dodgers in the final game of the 1951 World Series. include Brooklyns defensive Other replacement A1 Gionfriddo catching Joe DiMaggios drive at the sign to preserve the Dodgers victory in the sixth game of the 1947 World Series, and a close-u-p of Joltin Joe DiMaggio kicking the dirt as he rounded second in an uncharacteristic display of emotion. Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson, who broke major league baseballs color line in 1947, is shown stealing home against the New York Yankees in the World Series, w'hile champ Maury d 103rd. Wills swipes a Completing the base stealing sequence are the red and white shoes worn by the St. Louis Cardinals' Lou Brock last season when he broke Wills' major league record with 118 stolen bases. On loan from the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. are the bronze plaques of Bob Collegiate football fans will recall the glory days of Heisman trophy winners as four monitors replay Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis in the 1946 Army-Navclassic, and Leon Hart leading Notre Dame's 1949 national champions against Southern Methodist and Kyle Rote. y The moving walkway will also take visitors past reminders of the days of Jim Brown, Red Grange, Crazy Legs Hirsch, Gayle Sayers and Jim Thorpe. ia Basketball highlights range from an instant shot that replay of Jerry Wests sent the Lakers sixth plavoff game with the Knicks into overtime to Bill Russell and K.C. Jones leading San Francisco State over Tom Gola and uefenoing champion LaSalle College in the 1955 NCAA championships. last-seco- Other basketball 70-fo- stars represented include Bob Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-JabbaCousy, John Havlicek, Bob Lanier, Meadowlark Lemon and George Mikan. 16-1- r, Theres a knockout every four seconds as Jack Johnson spoils champ Jim Jeffries comhack bid in 1910; Jack Dempsey KOs Jess Willard to win the heavyweight crown in 1919; Joe Louis knocks out Max Schmeling in the first round in 1938; Rocky Marciano takes the crown from Jersey Joe Walcott in 1952; and Muhammad Ail floors Cleveland Williams in the third round in 1966. e 5-- In horse racing, four monitors show out distancing Sir Barton in the famous $100,000 match race at Belmont Park, as well as the last two Triple Crown winners. Citation (1948) and Secretariat (1973). The unique Triple Crown silver trophy is also on display. Man-of-W- 415-fo- ot six-tim- e, declaring, In another fascinating sequence, the nations greatest woman athlete, Babe Didrikson Zaharias is shown competing in track, tennis and golf. She set Olympic records in the 30 meter hurdles and javelin in 1932, and later went on to win national championships as an amateur golfer in 1916, and as a professional in base-stealin- g 1948-50-5- 4. then-recor- Other displays include the gold medals won by Johnny Weissmuller as he broke the barrier in the freestyle at the 1924 and 1928 Olympics; Jesse Owens gold medal for a record long jump in the 1936 Olympics; Biiiy Casper's pitching wedge and Arnold Palmer's No. 2 iron, and 27 medals won by Jim Thorpe. one-minu- te Ba-c-b- Exciting trek through two centuries of history Continued from page 2 Train is traveling to more than 90 cities in 48 states during its journey, which started in Delaware on April 1. 1975 and will end in Miama, Fla. in December 1976. During that period the train will have come within an hours drive of 90 percent of the nations population During the journey upwards to 10 million persons will have boarded the train and viewed its historical displays. Another 40 to 5ft million people will have viewed the tram from trackside as n moves slowly along its route. In 1947 there was an earlier version of the American Freedom Train, sponsored by the American Herigage Foundation. It logged 37.160 miles in its travels across !he country, stopping in ct cry one of the then 48 states. It was an enormous success, playing for a a few moments movie fans are with James Cagneys Oscar- - w i nil in g pe r f o Yankee Dooa swashdle Dandy, Errol Flynn buckling dueling with Basil Rath- in Consciousness raising of the explor- ers, including a Lewis and Clark map made during their northwestern trek that laid the original U.S. claim to the of aviatrix Amelia Earhart; and collection of space exploration memorabilia from Apollo astronauts. uiU 150 CarMil 335 SO. MAIN The- - Act -- r . i coring I's fir,an A. m Freedom i'rem wiii cover some 7,000 f .! . journey p iiw oruiuu ueic. 1 I I i t U .i-i- 3637222 validation for Cpbert, fcMtos ivdp., er,d &rant parfclrsg Suit. ... vice. Robert Young as Completing, the enter- Marcus Welby, M.D. and Ed Wynn:s coat with World War I and II tainment presentation are excerpts from radio Shadow Ranger, included aboard the entertainment car are Jack Bennys violin, The Freedom Train will also carry an Oscar, an Emmy, It Now, the Look and The Lone and TVs See with Edward R. Murrow, and Award, the Peoples The George Bums Show. may not have been part ramowitz was only 15 when she laid down her needle at a Chicago sweatshop and started a walkout that eventually led to the formation of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Rebelling against poor working conditions and low pay, the button sewer helped change Americas industry' to make conditions more tolerable for its workers. Among other improvements, union she founded with Sidney Hillman, that was the workweek as opposed to workers 60 hours. Items reminiscent of it was the garment her future husband, first to demand a workweeks of up to Bessie Hillmans activist role in the American labor movement include her copy of the 1915 Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America union dues book and her union Golden Jubilee Convention badge. Also included is an invitation to a 1913 dinner meetinf of the Lincoln Center Fellowship. The dinner, incidentally, cost 50 cents. It's in that great P.V.C. fabric (polyestervi-nylchloride- ) that wipes clean with a sponge, all the better to show off its embroidered' flowers, topped stitched ribbing and shirt cuff sleeves. Chamoise, white, French blue, copMail and per. By Preston Robins, 35.00. phone orders are invited. From Coats, 25. BROADWAY in preientsfien box ii1 Also P fcf fell, As featured in the Sept .Oct, issue of the Architectural Digest 'll President Franklin D. Roosevelt to George M. Cohan for patriotic ser awarded Bing Crosby for White Christmas, the stethoscope used by 8-1- 6. - tim pur nollors ires founded, Royal Wocceeter hisf already acquired an irUemelteosi reputation for exquisite beauty end iiniwpaued quality si it fin 'Kina. According to tradition, Benjamin Franklin to deugrt end commiesioned Raya! Wo produce tKe pattern known os Independence 1 776 ucing a it intpiratton our rotkwiol emblem, the American eagle. '!! 1.. rope, a gold record presented by CvuSOlCSf .OJ Limited Edition 10,000 sequentially numboted -- and the gold Award, medal the Rocky Mountains; a Congressional medal presented to Rear Adm. Robert E. Peary, the Arctic explorer first to reach the North Pole ; the flight scarf and goggles By Ih- NT Choice Award, the Entertainment Hall of Fame a 1930 TV set, Bob Hopes manuscript of his theme Thanks for the song, Memory, Will Rogers Wizard of Oz. but social reform was. An abolitionist and social reformer, she visited military camps near Washington D.C. after the start of the Civil War. Following this experience, Julia Ward Howe wrote a poem that is widely known today as The Battle Hymn of the Republic. The original manuscript, that was later set to musie, is one of the historic items on the Freedom Train. The handwritten manuscript is among a variety of historic items reflecting the involvement of women in every aspect of the nations development. Documents, articles, and photographs span womens roles from reform movements to organized labor, and from the sports arena to the arts. Julia Ward Howes significant contribution is in Car 6 that is devoted to Human Resources. Displayed in the same car is a collection reflecting the achievments of Bessie Abramcwitz Hillman as a labor organizer. At the turn of the 20th Century, Bessie Ab- - our nation's 200th birthday with a limited edition of The Independence Plate if brooch from Gone With the Wind, Charlton Hestons staff from The Ten Commandments, Robert Bedford's costume in The Sting, and Judy of Julia Ward Howes vocabulary back in the 1800s, Other memorabilia represent 200 years of regions beyond Dangerous. The trains tribute to the silver screen also includes the first movie projector, Harold Lloyds glasses, Douglas Fair sword, Rudolph Tribute to women's role in U.S. Continued from page 4 and Peoria Indians that resulted in the 21st state; the first treaty with Hawaii to further commerce and navigation in 1849; and the Treaty of Cession of Alaska of 1867 signed amid vociferous claims that the frozen lands would never be worth the purchase price of $7.2 million. accomplishments Franchot Tone in banks Valentinos jacket, Shirley Temples teddy bear from Captain January, Fred Astaires top hat and cane, Vivien Leighs fa Car No. 6 Unusual pioneer diaries nations famous and Nelson Eddy return in Indian Love Call, Johnny Weissmuller in Tarzan, The Ape Man, and Bette Davis and Royal Worcester celebrates Bicentennial "Freedom Train" came from Ross Rowland a commodity broker wi:h a passion for railroading, in 1966. Rowland formed the High Iron Company, Inc., to restore and operate a mainline steam locomotive. 6 For Jeanette MacDonald WORCESTER Tentative noute'of The American freedom Train 1975-1S7- seen nothin yet in the first talkie, the 1927 .Jazz Singer. bone in Captain Blood, and tough-gu- y Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar. ROYAL host to more than 3.5 million visitors during its 16 month tour. The train had seven cars, three of which housed exhibits, was painted gleaming white with bands of red and blue, and was diesel powered by a engine. That train, called the Spirit of 47, could accommodate only 640 people an hour, and. as a result, the wait to board was often long and discouraging. (The moving walkway on the Freedom Train doubles that hourly rate). On the stopover in New York City, for example, people waited four abreast in a line that was 15 blocks long. The idea aint You Marque montage, vaudeville posters, an early motion picture camera, and Rudolph Valentino's jacket highlight the "Entertainment" iPw S Hi f '!Dv- - I |