Fred Clarke
Outfielder / Manager
Born: October 3, 1872 Winterset, Iowa
Died: August 14, 1960(1960-08-14) (aged 87) Winfield, Kansas
Batted: Left	Threw: Right
MLB debut
June 30, 1894 for the Louisville Colonels
Last MLB appearance
September 23, 1915 for the Pittsburgh Pirates
Career statistics
Batting average	.312
Hits	2672
Runs batted in	1015
Teams
As Player Louisville Colonels (1894–1899) Pittsburgh Pirates (1900–1911, 1913–1915) As Manager Louisville Colonels (1897–1899) Pittsburgh Pirates (1900–1915)
Career highlights and awards
One World Series championship: 1909 Four National League pennants: 1901, 1902, 1903, 1909 Managerial record: 1602-1181 7th-most triples in Major League history (220) 11 seasons with a .300+ batting average 5 seasons with 100+ runs scored
Member of the National
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction	1945
Election Method	Veteran's Committee

Fred Clifford Clarke (October 3, 1872 – August 14, 1960) was a Major League Baseball player from 1894 to 1915 and manager from 1897 to 1915. A Hall of Famer, Clarke played for and managed both the Louisville Colonels and Pittsburgh Pirates. He was a left fielder and left-handed batter.

Of the nine pennants in Pittsburgh franchise history, Clarke was the player-manager for four of them. He and fellow Hall of Famers, Honus Wagner and Vic Willis, led Pittsburgh to a victory over Ty Cobb and the Detroit Tigers in the 1909 World Series. Clarke batted over .300 in 11 different seasons. His 35-game hitting streak in 1895 was the second-longest in major league history at the time and is still tied for 11th-longest. For six years, Clarke held the major league record for wins by a manager.

Early life and career[link]

Fred Clarke was born on a farm near Winterset, Iowa. At age two, his family moved as part of a covered wagon caravan from Iowa to Kansas before relocating to Des Moines, Iowa, five years later. As a child in Des Moines, Clarke sold newspapers for the Iowa State Register where his boss was future Baseball Hall of Fame member, Ed Barrow.^[1] In 1892, a professional team in Hastings, Nebraska sent a railroad ticket to Des Moines semiprofessional player, Byron McKibbon, but McKibbon backed out and gave the ticket to Clarke instead. Clarke impressed the Hastings team and he signed his first professional contract.^[2] He was in the Southern League at age 21 and played for teams in Montgomery, Alabama, and Savannah, Georgia.^[1]

Clarke was discovered in the minor leagues by Louisville part-owner, Barney Dreyfuss, and joined the Colonels in 1894.^[3] In his first game, he collected five hits in five at bats which is still a major league record.^[3][4] In his second season, he asserted himself with a batting average of .347, 191 hits and 96 runs which were all best on the team by far. In 1897, Clarke took over managerial duties while only 24 years old. As a player, he hit a career high .390. Only the best average of Willie Keeler's career stopped Clarke from winning his only batting title. (For many years, Clarke's 1897 average was listed as .406 but further research led most official sources, including MLB.com, to list it at .390.^[5]) Despite Clarke's excellent hitting and the presence of fellow Hall of Famers, Honus Wagner and Rube Waddell, the team struggled for several years. While in Louisville, Clarke was teamed up with pitcher Chick Fraser. Clarke and Fraser became brothers-in-law when they married sisters.^[6] When the Colonels folded, Barney Dreyfuss became the owner of the Pittsburgh franchise and tapped Clarke, Wagner, Waddell, Deacon Phillippe and others to accompany him.

Pittsburgh[link]

In 1900, Clarke joined the Pittsburgh Pirates as a player and manager, roles he would embrace until his retirement in 1915. 1903 was arguably the best hitting season of Clarke's career as he led the major leagues in slugging average and OPS and led the National League in doubles. He finished second only to his teammate, Honus Wagner, for the National League batting title. In the first World Series, Clarke hit .265 but Boston's Cy Young and Bill Dinneen outpitched Pittsburgh overall and won the series in eight games.

In the 1909 World Series, Clarke batted only .211 but hit both of Pittsburgh's home runs and had more home runs and RBI than any player on either team. Clarke also set a record for most walks for one player in a World Series game with four in Game 7.

On August 23, 1910, Clarke recorded four assists from the outfield in one game, tying a major league record. The following season, his last as a regular player, 38-year-old Clarke made 10 putouts in left field in one game on April 25, 1911.^[1][3] Clarke played just 12 more games after 1911, the last three as the oldest active player in the majors.

Clarke finished his career with a .312 batting average and is seventh on the all-time triples list with 220.^[7] He led his team to four National League pennants (1901, 1902, 1903 and 1909) and one World Series championship (1909). The 1902 Pirates lost only 36 games under Clarke's guidance, a modern-era record. In 1912, Clarke passed Cap Anson and Frank Selee, giving him the major league record for wins by a manager. Clarke's record, in turn, was broken by John McGraw in 1918. In addition to the four pennants and one World Series, Clarke managed Pittsburgh to five second-place seasons and three third-place seasons.

After his playing days[link]

After his managing days ended in 1915, Clarke eventually returned to the Pirates, first as a coach, later as a vice president and assistant manager.^[1] When coaching he had led the Pirates to two, and their only two, seasons of winning 100+ games. As an assistant to Barney Dreyfuss in 1926, he was allowed to sit on the Pirates' bench but, on August 13, players requested that he be removed. Instead, Pirates ownership responded by releasing veteran players, Carson Bigbee and Babe Adams, and waived slumping veteran (and eventual Hall of Famer), Max Carey.^[3]

Fred Clarke was selected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945 as one of the first to be elected by the Old-Timers Committee. He was one of 24 original inductees into the Iowa Sports Hall of Fame in 1951.^[8] After his baseball days, Clarke retired to his "Little Pirate Ranch" near Winfield, Kansas, which he had purchased with a down payment during his first year in the majors.^[1] He remained active and seemingly indestructible into his 70s. In 1947, while ice fishing in northern Minnesota, he and his wife were thrown into icy northern Minnesota waters by a storm, but he was back out fishing the next day. Soon after, he was nearly shot accidentally while quail hunting. He then survived a gas furnace explosion in his basement.^[2] While in Winfield he started the Winfield Country Club that is still in operation to this day. Fred Clarke died in Winfield at age 87.

Hall of Fame voting[link]

See also[link]

• List of Major League Baseball doubles champions
• List of Major League Baseball triples champions
• List of major league players with 2,000 hits
• List of Major League Baseball players with 100 triples
• List of Major League Baseball players with 1000 runs
• List of Major League Baseball players with 1000 RBI
• List of Major League Baseball leaders in career stolen bases
• List of Major League Baseball players with 500 stolen bases
• List of Major League Baseball player–managers
• Hitting for the cycle

References[link]

External links[link]

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
• Fred Clarke managerial career statistics at Baseball-Reference.com
• Fred Clarke at the Baseball Hall of Fame

Fred Dagg is a fictional archetype satirist from New Zealand created and acted on stage, film and television by satirist John Clarke. Clarke graced New Zealand TV screens as Dagg during the mid to late 1970s, "taking the piss" out of the post-pioneering Kiwi bloke and "blokesses".

When Clarke first unveiled the character of Fred Dagg in recordings and on New Zealand TV in 1975, he became a national star and icon. Clarke also recorded a series of records and cassettes as Dagg, as well as publishing several books.

The Fred Dagg character is a stereotypical farmer and New Zealand bloke: clad in a black singlet and gumboots, hailing from the isolated rural town of Taihape, and attended by numerous associates (or sons) all named "Trev". One memorable expression was uttered whenever there was a knock at the door: "That'll be the door."

In 1979, Clarke moved from New Zealand to Australia. In Australia Clarke has gone on to establish himself as a top script writer and personality. He still appears regularly on Australian television doing political satire sketches with actor comedian Bryan Dawe.

Influence[link]

Clarke has stated that the inspiration for Fred Dagg came primarily from his uncles who would talk in such a way, using intonation and speech rhythm, to cause laughter without the standard telling of jokes.

Much of the comedy coming into New Zealand at the time was British radio and this was an inspiration to him.

Works[link]

Fred Dagg first came to public attention as a closing satire item on the NZBC farming show, Country Calendar - much as he does currently with Brian Dawe weekly on the 7.30 Report. He went on to become a household name in New Zealand in 1975, with the release by Clarke (as Dagg) of two singles with EMI, "Traditional Air"/"Unlabelled", and "We Don't Know How Lucky We Are"/"Larry Loves Barry", with the latter making it to number 17 on the national music single charts.

An album called Fred Dagg's Greatest Hits followed and was a massive seller. Thirty years after its release this album remains one of New Zealand's all-time biggest selling records.

Another single recorded with Diamond Lil^{[disambiguation needed ]} was an even bigger hit in 1976. "Gumboots"/"Save The Last Dance For Me" climbed to number 6 on the charts. "Gumboots" was a modified version of Billy Connolly's "If It Wasna For Your Wellies", itself an adaptation of the old song "The Work Of The Weavers".^[1]

A second album, Fred Dagg Live was released in 1976. Following on in the style of the first, it was also a huge seller.

1977 saw the release of the film Dagg Day Afternoon, co-directed and co-written by John Clarke and Geoff Murphy, and starring Fred Dagg. The film, under 45 minutes long, is essentially a series of sketches tied together with a loose narrative about Dagg's secret mission to find a "bionic sheep" (or 6 million dollar ram) which has been lost by the government. While disappointing on the narrative level the film nevertheless is a showcase for the rare gem that is early Kiwi comedy, highlighting a penchant for comedic understatment, an emphasis on New Zealand speech patterns (verbal reversals and wordplay) and the ironic stabs at the obvious.

A third and final album was released in 1979 called The Fred Dagg Tapes.

In 1998 the Fred Dagg Anthology CD was released by Columbia. It contains a range of John Clarke's material, including most of the items Fred Dagg is most remembered for. A lot of the second half of the Anthology isn't genuine "Fred Dagg" material, having been created by Clarke after he'd retired Fred Dagg and moved to Australia. A number of mock interviews were first broadcast on Australian current affairs television, and lampoon prominent people (such as businessman Alan Bond) who would not be familiar to a New Zealand audience. There are also six "farnarkeling" reports, which parody sports news and were first performed by Clarke on the ABC's The Gillies Report.

"We Don't Know How Lucky We Are!" was re-released in 1998 with revised lyrics. This re-recording was driven by Graeme Hill, and Sky TV's Sports Cafe.

See also[link]

• Agriculture in New Zealand
• Gumboot Day

References[link]

External links[link]

• Fred Dagg on John Clarke's official website
• Fred Dagg on New Zealand Music.
• Fred Dagg's gumboots at the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Chapel of the Good Shepherd on Roosevelt Island, New York

"Maple Lawn" in Balmville, New York

Frederick Clarke Withers (4 February 1828–7 January 1901) was a successful English architect in America, especially renowned for his Gothic Revival church designs.

Biography[link]

Born in Shepton Mallet, Somersetshire,^[1] Withers studied architecture in England for eight years. He came to the United States in 1851/52 at the invitation of the prominent American architect Andrew Jackson Downing. Downing drowned that year, attempting to save his mother, following the explosion of the steamboat Henry Clay. Calvert Vaux, Downing's partner, then took Withers in as a partner, at Newburgh, New York.^[2] Vaux included a design for a bookcase credited to Withers among those in his Villas and Cottages (New York, 1857), which records both designs of Downing and Vaux and Vaux and Withers.^[3]

At the outset of the American Civil War, Withers volunteered and received a commission as a lieutenant in the 1st New York Volunteer Engineer Regiment. This experience added invaluable engineering experience to his architectural expertise. After war's end, he moved his practice to New York City where he became renowned for his church designs. As an independent architect in New York working largely in the Gothic revival mode, Withers wrote about architecture and designed in the highly-colored "Ruskinian Gothic" manner. Withers' only cast-iron building stands at 448 Broome Street, Manhattan.^[4]

When A. J. Bicknell published Withers' Church Architecture (1873),^[5] it was a sign that Withers' reputation was secured. Among his prestigious commissions was the "William Backhouse Astor, Sr. Memorial Altar and Reredos" (1876–77) at Trinity Church. In the 1880s Withers worked in partnership with Walter Dickson (1835-1903), originally from Albany, New York.

Works[link]

• Calvary First Presbyterian Church of Newburgh, Newburgh, New York (1858)
• Gallaudet College buildings, Washington, D.C.^[6] (1867–77)
• First Presbyterian Church of Highland Falls, Highland Falls, New York (1868)
• Maple Lawn, Balmville, New York
• Eustatia, Beacon, New York
• Jefferson Market Courthouse, New York (1874; Vaux & Withers)
• Main reredos and altar, Trinity Church, New York City (1876–77)
• Reformed Church of Beacon
• Rice Building, Troy
• St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Beacon
• Chapel of the Good Shepherd, Blackwell's Island (now Roosevelt Island), N.Y. (1888–89)
• Trinity Church, Hartford, Connecticut ^[7] (1891–94)
• Hudson River State Hospital (National Historic Landmark)
• Third Judicial District Courthouse (Jefferson Market Library) (with Calvert Vaux) (National Historic Landmark)
• Hackensack Water Company Complex, Weehawken, New Jersey (National Historic Landmark)

References[link]

Notes

External links[link]

• Media related to Frederick Clarke Withers at Wikimedia Commons

Professor Sir Frederick Clarke or Sir Fred Clarke (1880–1952) was the Director of the Institute of Education in the University of London between 1936 and 1945. During the 1930s and 1940s he was also a strong advocate for educational reform in England and Wales. Clarke was fully involved in the public educational debate at the time and a member of a private group of leading educational thinkers known as 'The Moot'. He is known particularly for his book Education and Social Change: an English interpretation from 1940. Other books include the collection of essays Essays in the Politics of Education (1923) and Freedom in the Educative Society (1948).

Printing[link]

Clarke's personal papers are held at the Archives of the Institute of Education.

References[link]

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• F. W. Mitchell, Sir Fred Clarke: master teacher, 1880–1952 (1967)
• M. Barber, "The Making of the 1944 Education Act" (1994)

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Simone Clarke (born 1970 in Leeds, Yorkshire) is an English ballerina and former Prima Ballerina of English National Ballet company. In 2006, she was the centre of controversy when it was revealed that she was a member of the British National Party. She retired from professional dance in 2007 and opened her own school, the Yorkshire Ballet Academy,^[1] in Leeds in 2008.

Career[link]

Clarke trained at the Royal Ballet School (1981–1988) and then joined the Birmingham Royal Ballet where she was promoted to the first soloist in 1995. In 1998 she joined the English National Ballet. During the company's tour of China in 2000 she performed the role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake as a guest dancer, and became senior soloist in that year. In 2003 she advanced to principal dancer. She has performed as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, and as Cinderella and as Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty.

Clarke was the Equity trade union "dance representative" for the London region^[2] and, from November 2007, also an Executive member of the BNP-linked trade union Solidarity.

BNP membership[link]

In an undercover investigation, The Guardian newspaper reported on 21 December 2006 that Simone Clarke was a member of the far-right British National Party.^[3] Clarke, in response to the British media's coverage of this, defended her personal political affiliation, stating that "the BNP is the only party to take a stand against immigration".^[4] She faced calls to be sacked from the English National Ballet by the campaign group Unite Against Fascism who believed it was inappropriate for a potential role model in a far-right party to be funded with public money.^[4] The Guardian later reported that Clarke said she had received "nearly 300 emails supporting me" since her membership became public.^[5] On 30 December 2006, Clarke gave her first major interview with the Mail on Sunday. The paper commented:

The BNP is certainly repellent, with its knee-jerk hatred of foreigners and history of organised thuggery, and there is something in the juxtaposition of dance pumps and bovver boots that many will find impossible to comprehend, particularly in the liberal world of the arts.

But Simone's explanation for why she decided to join the party last year – given here for the first time – cannot be simply brushed aside as a foolish error, let alone ignored.

The reason is summed up in one word: Immigration.........

But her story has wider implications. When one of the country's principal ballerinas, a 36-year-old woman who spent much of her recent working life as the Sugar Plum Fairy, decides to join the British neo-fascists, there is an argument that something has gone badly wrong with democratic British politics.^[6]

On 12 January 2007, around forty people staged a protest outside the London Coliseum theatre, where Clarke was to perform that night playing the lead in the romantic classic Giselle in her first performance since The Guardian reported on her BNP membership.^[7] A counter-protest group was led by her then partner Richard Barnbrook, the BNP local councillor for the London constituency of Barking.

Private life[link]

Clarke was the girlfriend of Yat-Sen Chang, an ENO dancer of Cuban-Chinese descent, with whom she has a daughter.

On 19 December 2007, it was announced she planned to marry BNP councillor Richard Barnbrook, whom she had been seeing for more than nine months.^[8] In statements made before he met Clarke, however, Barnbrook was quoted as saying, apropos her relationship with Chang, "I'm not opposed to mixed marriages but their children are washing out the identity of this country's indigenous people." He has since said that should he and the ballerina wed, "her child will be my child."^[8] However, in an interview with The Times in November 2008, he claimed that they were no longer engaged.^[9]

References[link]

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