That the athlete is not necessarily a young man in the full bloom of youth is shown by a glance at some of the greatest characters in the world of sports. Everyone knows that “Uncle Jeems” O’Rourke who has played several games at Hampden park this season is over 70, but “Jeems” is not the only old-timer doing business today on the diamond. Lave Cross of Washington began in league company at Altoona in 1885, in the Pennsylvania State League. He is still good enough to hold his place at third base, and during the whole period he has never been out of the big league since he quit Altoona.

50 Years Ago, 1956

A perfume chemist said today that “although he would never admit it,” the average American male uses MORE perfume products today than the ladies.

Dr. Oliver L. Marton, chief perfumer of Shulton, Inc., Clinton, N.J., reported that men’s purchases of fragrance – containing preparations of various types – total three times as much as women spend on “perfume, toilet water, cologne, bath sales, bubble bath and so forth.”

“If the market were measured in gallons instead of dollars,” he said, “the after-shave lotion market would be the largest single fragrance market in existence. It is almost as big as the total lipstick market. And there is more sold than all the talcum and dusting powder put together.”

25 Years Ago, 1981

If your favorite disc jockey’s voice has recently developed a “down home” twang – welcome to hoedown.

Country music is riding the bull market that was partly created when the movie “Urban Cowboy” was at its popularity crest, and it may be bucking for the No. 1 radio format if the stations keep converting at the rate they have been.

In the last year over 500 radio stations have switched to programming country music, boosting the total to almost 3,000 stations carrying the mountain-born music. That is an increase of more than 20 percent over 1980, according to an annual survey done by the Country Music Association.