Eddie Arcaro

The Colgate Shave Cream Sports Newsreel featuring strange and fantastic stories. Some legends, some hearsay, but also interesting that we'd like to pass them along to you. Our guest tonight is the most famous jockey riding in American race tracks today, Eddie R. Carroll.

But before we bring you the famous jockey, Eddie R. Carroll in person, here is real one, profile of a ballplayer. Let's go back through the years tonight. Back and remember one of the strangest stories of baseball.

To start our story, we have to go back many years back to a bright sunny July morning at the Polo Grounds in New York City. The New York Giants are practicing. Watching them from the sidelines is their manager, John McGraw.

That is, John McGraw is watching his team until he sees a stranger slowly approaching. McGraw looks at the stranger. He's wearing a shabby suit. There's a battered hat pull down over his eyes. The stranger walks up to John McGraw and says, Mr. McGraw, I heard them say that sometimes you give a ball

player a chance when nobody else will. Not Jack Scott. It was Jack Scott. Jack Scott once one of the greatest pictures in baseball. But now, now just a washed up has been his arm was dead. Nobody wanted him. He was through McGraw looked at the shabby man and said hello Scott. I was wondering if you'd let me

work out with your team. Maybe if you'd be a little patient my arm would come back. John McGraw dug down into his pocket. He peeled off a $50 bill and he slipped it into Jack Scott's hand telling him to keep the $50 to pay the $50 back when he could. But even more important than giving them fifty dollars, John McGraw gave Jack Scott