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Show From the Dutch to the Dodgers: Brooklyn in the past and present Brooklyn . . . And llo h It Got That Way, by David W. McCullough; The Dial Press, 264 pp., $19.95. Chris Christiansen, of Salt Lakes Control Equipment Co., Steven Diesso, a senior programmer at our valley's new American Express Co. establishment, and Joseph Bernini, police chief of Eureka, have a common bond although theyve never met All are natives of New York Citys most famous borough Brooklyn Mr. Bernini came to the Wasatch country with the CCC four decades ago, Mr. Christiansen (who proudly reports that his mother, a stewardess aboard an ocean liner, "jumped ship in Brooklyn before the World War") came west to help install nuclear reactors at Arco, Idaho. Mr Diesso, the most recent emigre returns to this native heath annually to help fellow parishioners carry the 85- - foot-tagiglio outside the Shrine Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel during a street festival that makes our Days of 47 affair look positively pallid. What with an abundance of sausage and calzone vendors, this Brooklyn event, along with others in Bensonhurst. Bushwick. t, Greenpoint, Flatbush and smells even livelier Reversing Decline Alas, the emigration of the Utah not to menresidents cited above tion your reviewer's own departure from the vicinity of Ebbetts Field in the wake of World War II typify one reason for the decline of Brooka decline now being arrested lyn by an increasing interest in Historic Preservation, the restoration of the borough's multitude of brownstones. and the upsurge of real estate values on Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Crown Heights and in Flatbush, Bay Ridge, and even owner-preside- ll Bedford-Stuyvesan- Bed-Stu- Author McCullough correctly traces the history of this western- most tip of Long Island, a lovely, covered terrain e g purchased from Indians by Dutch settlers who saw its resemblance to Hollands clam-diggin- Can-arsi- trict tVlache Bos (Flatbush) and Graven-sand- e (Gravesend) prior to the arrival of those language-corruptin- g English. Illustrated via a wealth of ancient prints from the Long Island Historic Society, old photos from the vanished Brooklyn Eagle once edited by Walt Whitman, and enlivened by present-da- y photos taken or selected by Jim Kalett, this lively volume is an engaging report on a city that grew in size and stature to be the third largest in our land only to be swallowed up, and virtually forgotten, as one of five boroughs of Great- And, of course, Ebbets Field has vanished, along with Uncle Wilbert Robinson, Zach Wheat, Rube Dazzy Vance and Babe Herman, the pennantless Dodgers of my own day. Charlie Ebbets himself lies in Green-WooCemetery, unable, I presume, to enjoy the finest view of New York Bay in all of Brooklyn. The Daffiness Boys Dodgers of the 1920s and 1930s were famous for playing a 26- - inning, game ending due to darkness, in which both starting pitchers lasted the entire game. Three Dodgers did end up on third base at one time. These Daffiness Boys included a manager who would not play men whose names he couldn't spell and featured a star batsman who stolidly refused to bunt. Casey Stengel did tip his cap at therehome plate one day in 1938 by permitting a bird to fly out from beneath it. There was indeed a Hilda Chester who sat in the left field bleachers armed with two cowbells she clanged incessantly to annoy visiting leftfielders. Author McCullough accuratly reports the awesome presence of the late, lamented Dodger Symphony. It consisted of eight Italian gentlemen from Williamsburgh who could not read music but who could, and did, render Three Blind Mice with considerable passion whenever they believed an umpire had erred, which was often. Why were the Brooklyn ballplayers dubbed Dodgers? Simple enough. Throughout the teams residence, Brooklyn boasted more trolley tracks, and more trolley cars operating in dangerous fashion, than any other metropolis on our globe. The clattering, clanging open-side- d summer cars baseball fans rode have vanished, but not before Jackie Robinson became the first black k greenplayer to grace any sward. A huge housing development (named for Jackie) occupies the Bedford Avenue site of the ballpark. er New York. Cursed Politicians Brooklynites alive during the great consolidation cursed the politicians responsible for their city's demotion to borough status. Tom Trask, who taught civics at my own high school, insisted party bosses should be "indicted for civic treason. But he taught us to take pride in learning the locale of the Battle of Long Island or visiting the site of the shipyard where Ericcsons Monitor was built just in time to save the Union Navy in its. battle with the Merrimac. Similarly, the volume at hand makes clear in text and pictures that the nations oldest Dutch farmhouses still stand in Flatlands, that Prospect Park, created by Frederic Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux between 1866 and 1874, still contains woodland hills and lovely lakes and that Coney Island beaches are as crowded as ever on summer Sundays while the youth of today can still ride the scary Cyclone roller coaster and ingest Nathan's Famous Alas, Feltmans, where the frankfurter-on-ro- ll allegedly was inhas vented, vanished, along with the Brooklyn Eagle, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a trio of racetracks, and Sands Street. The latter narrow thoroughfare near the famed bridge was known by all wearers of trousers as the prime red light dis hot-dog- s. bell-botto- m Sunday , July 24, 1'JH'l E3 of the North American conti- Breukelen, and who named adjacent hamlets Boswijk (Bushwick). The Salt Lake Tribune nent. Mar-quar- d one-one-t- ie " Its entrance is situated just about where the Abe Stark clothing store billboard once stood, advertising a cut-rat- e mens' shop on Pitkin Avenue. The sign, which read "Hit Sign, Win Suit in no way endangerd the vitality of the haberdashery since the billboard, a mere four feet m height, stood nearly 400 feet from home plate. History of Shipping In addition to tracing the history of the Dodgers and their fans, the volume gives some detail on the rise and fall of Brooklyn as a shipping center, plus a bit of fact and fiction d longconcerning its shoremen. There are photos of Erasmus Hall High School, founded in Colonial times, and later attended by such phenoms as Clara Bow and Barbra Streisand - Mafia-affiliate- pro-par- Al t fV Jlj k ( uir4nl(0 created this original sketch of a bygone scene in the borough on Long Islands tip. Jack Goodman, a former Brooklynite who frequently reviews books for The Tribune, There are quotations from PG Jerome Kern. Walt Whitman, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thakeray, Truman Cawho pote and even Thomas Wolfe once resided on Brooklyn Heights, enjoyed a fine view of Manhattan, and imitated, at his personal peril, the accents of borough taxi drivers and subway riders Sheepshead Buy (all pierced by lengthy Bedford Avenue) have become havens for congregations of Polish Catholics, Ha sidic Jews, Moslems, Rastifarians and even an Episcopalian remnant Wodehouse, side-by-sid- o While giving only scant attention to such glories of the borough as the Brooklyn Museum, the Japanese Garden, Botanic Garden and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, author McCullough and photographer Jim Kallett are at their best in a trek through the vast reaches of this onetime city, detailing the manner in which ancient Williamsburg, Bedford, Crown Heights, Flatbush, and Brooklyn, as most other cities in our land, has suffered from the migration to the suburbs of its upper and middle class residents, but a new generation of professional folk, refugees from the same suburbs that once attracted their parents, has now returned to the auld sod. The infrastructure of a viable city remains, and Brooklyn is giving all signs of becoming a healthy melting pot, within sight of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island just across Buttermilk Channel and the Upper Bay Jack Goodman. - Mens pro tennis is a real racket, expose says Short Circuit Six Months on the Tour, by men, officials of pro tennis's governing bodies and representatives of its Mens Professional Tennis Michael Mewshaw; Atheneum, 306 br pp., $13.95. As Michael Mewshaw muses near the beginning of his latest nonfiction book, Short Circuit, after having published his fifth novel, Land Without Shadow (1979), which re- viewers described as mordant, bleak and unrelievedly depressing, he had written Life for Death (1980), a nonfiction account of a boy who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his parents. It was evidently time for a change of mood. Longing to write something lighthearted, uplifting and funny, he explains, I decided to combine the twin passions of my life, tennis and travel, and follow the mens professional tour for a few months. But instead of being buoyed and amused by his time on the tour, he was by turns downcast, flabbergasted and outraged. More than just a travelogue and a series of lively portraits of the top players in the game, his book turns out to be an indictment of professional tennis. For he quickly spotted evidence of all sorts of hanky-pank- y going on guarantees paid to the stars for participating in events; prize money split among contestants so as to diminish their incentive to win; betting by participants in contests, albeit with friends and for relatively small amounts; drug abuse; preferential treatment of top under-the-tab- le players; matches thrown, or Assoc'crted Pres Loserphoto John McEnroe, reigning Wimbledon and U.S. Open champion, exhibits court behavior common in mens tennis today. "tanked, to avoid schedule conflicts; dubious business deals between tournament directors and umpires. Why. there were even ac- - Sritmnr Book guards against all but the most determined regional blitz. Two Scientology organizations bought a total of 30,000 copies of Battlefield Earth at discount directly from the publisher, apparently to' sell or to give to current or prospective Scientology members. That purchase is not counted as part of the best-selllists, which record sales through general bookstores. Kathy Heard, a press spokesman for the Church of Scientology at its West Coast headquarters in Los Angeles. denied church involvement in any manipulative buying of Hubbards book. But there are six million members of the Church of Scientology, she said, and the membership has an enormous interest in all L. Ron Hubbard's writing. A lot of them would naturally pick up his book." Former Scientologists said that church membership in the iev tions. cusations that some of the writers who cover tennis were bought! Tainted Profession Again and again, comparisons to show business and even professional wrestling came up. By the time he finished what turned out to be more 's an investigation than a report, misgivings and suspicions had gradually hardened into the painful certainty that except for the Grand Slam events Wimbledon, and the French, United States and Australian opens professional tennis was so tainted it was bo longer possible to regard it with anything like my old enthusiasm and affection. How effective is the case he makes? Pretty persuasive. Dozens of people spoke openly to Mewshaw players, former players, umpires, trainers, tournament organizers, television producers, equipment Mew-shaw- Lease S 40 per month Only 1 'with suo d2MUSK3$OTTO n a The Retreat... Magnificent Get away to the beautiful mountains of Deer Valley at the new Stem Eriksen . . per rught Sunday Starting at through Wednesday, you will ieceive a down et wnmerhq Bill Widder, president of Dateline Communications, a company in Santa Monica, Calif., that is handling publicity for Battlefield Earth, credited luck with having a lot to do with making the book a best seller nine months after publication. I think its a combination of the fact that there are a number of other science-fictio- n and fantasy titles on The Times list at the moment, plus the release of the movie Return of the Jedi, he said. One of our stores had a telephone call from a man who said hed like to buy 600 copies of the book, said the buyer for a major book chain in the Lodge in Park City 4nnutl percenter rate Simple niter ui tle unpaid ? 2 months piano is only 1 40 down $ 40 per month tor mi kKlmq Mes mtrre.i plus payment ot S4o IN Utai payments down and pnnt p.ii are 4 O H IM it t 'n u s i " ' rd ,r ' 'o' momhs 1H 100,000. Northeast. "We didnt have 600 in fact, we didnt have any copies copies then. We were returning it. Now its coming back on the list, apparently because Hubbards people are creating a demand Booksellers suggest that church members could be trying to buy themselves a best seller in order to obtain a large paperback or movie sale, both of which are often contingent on a books first becoming a best seller in hard cover. GOLD The Price . Unbelievable 549.50 MEDAL Kawai Grand Pianos Buy or United States is actually closer to GETAWAY SH Lrt -- 4SOCrn nv .i"" Se Otione OB 4446 in Orem '40 Ooulh Slain IS ijr ' i1m tjhnfc Uir" it A mood-swing- fuddled and evasive when Mewshaw confronts them that inadvertently they end up validating his accusa- Are authors followers creating artificial best seller? Continued from Page E-- 2 not be used, because they said they are concerned about the Church of Scientologys alleged pattern of harassment against its critics said they are concerned about attempts to whip up a demand for books outside of the normal review, publicity and promotional channels. Yet they acknowledged that attempts to buy a best seller are not new. They said that Hollywood studios have frequently attempted to do so, usually soon after purchasing film rights to a book. But Battlefield Earth did not reach the best-selllist just because it has sold well in strongholds of Scientology. The Times's bestseller list, compiled from sales figures from about 2,000 bookstores in every region of the United States, and balanced between independent stores and chains, las built-i- n safe Lamar Hunt's World Championship Tennis and Volvo's Grand Prix Tennis. Indeed, so openly do these people speak to Mewshaw, and so freely do they confirm one another's stories, that they betray a kind of cynicism, if not an outright despair. And the people who ought to be laying down the law, or at least enforcing it, seem so be- Salt ialif Ke circuits, warring deluxe room, a complimentary fruit basket and Continental breakfast for two $69 SO on hiuisday f nday and Saturday Is Tennis Worth Saving? an But equally important question Short Circuit raises is whether professional tennis is even worth saving anymore. When one recalls some of the better Grand Slam matches of the past few years Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors in the finals at Wimbledon, Connors against Ivan Lendl at the United one would States Open last fall have to say that it is. Mewshaw himself answers this question by saving his best descriptive passages for the matches he witmany first-rat- e nessed. Hes good at description at catching the quirks of the tour's more charismatic players, whether its Vitas Gerulaitis, with his "gold cockscomb of hair and prominent nose and his nervous tic of swiveling his head just before he serves, looking like a rooster checking the henhouse for interlopers; or Ilie Nastase spewing out truly shocking vulgarities at anyone within earshot, including, in one appalling instance, a girl. Mewshaw also captures what it's like to earn a living on the tour, and why the constant traveling leads to a kind of claustrophobic fugue state that distinguishes the psyche of a tennis pro. M ATTENTION: PROSPECTIVE "Fatigue, boredom, nagging illness, homesickness, sophomonc hua feeling mor, abrupt of season indoor the living in during a time capsule shut off from the sun, fresh air and all outside influences these are the hallmarks of the professional tennis tour, and they leave little opportunity or inclination for cultural excursions. If a camera is the symbol for a tourist, then a Walkman headset is the symbol of the circuit. Whereas a traveler is eager to record what he sees outside himself, a tennis player is interested almost exclusively in his own space, in creating through acoustical cologne a placid inner environment. Short Circuit is a surprisingly entertaining piece of reporting, considering the amount of muck raking that it does. It is marred only by a taint of aggressive piety, as well as the authors peculiar and somewhat tasteless curiosity about how much homosexuality is practiced among the men on the tour, an interest that was properly greeted with stares of incomprehension whenever he expressed it. Yet most of all, Mewshaw's love of tennis comes through. And his indignation. As he concludes Short Circuit: "Of course, if tennis were merely burlesque and no more, it wouldnt be worth saving; it could be allowed to decay and die. But it has the new vitality and the ancient traditions, the attractive personnel, the sheer excitement and symmetrical beauty to be much more than vaudeville. Its reform would not take years of study and countless hours of committee meetings. Nor would it cost millions of dollars. Professional tennis could be completely changed in a matter of weeks if it had the Christopher Lehmann-Haupt- , courage. New York Times. 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