The Washington times., 1934-01-19
Those Wedding Bells : The COIOneIs Lady
Ring Again, and Pappy Is Called Dee Tees,
He Wants the Winners And She's Nervous
By BILL CoRUM

NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-Items
Of interest in our set-true to
the traditions Of her family,
Elaine Runyon, charming and
talented daughter of Damon
Runyon, has married a news
paper man. He is Dick Nc
Cam, a sports writer of Wash
ington, D. c., and the young
couple will spend a part of their
honeymoon at Biloxi, Miss,
where McCann will cover the
training camp Of the American
League champion Senators.
Like all budding sports
scribes, who tour the Southland
with the ball boys in the spring,
the young man likely will pick
the team to which he is as
signed to win the pennant,
which it may in this particular
case. Surely Joe Cronin's
hustling outfit must be given
a good chance to repeat. But
I never think of an enthusiaS-
tic scribe in training camp with
q team, but what I am re-
minded of the young man from
st. Louis, who decided it would
make a darn good piece for the
paper if he figured out just
how many games each OF the
Cardinal pitchers might be ex'
pected to win that season.
So he doped it all out-25 for
Grimes, Is for Hallahan, Is for
Sherdel, 20 for Rhem (weaken-
ing, you see, but only a trifle),
20 for Derringer, 20 for Jess
Haines, is for Herman Bell, ETC.,
and dispatched the story to his
paper, glowing with pride at
thought of a job well done.
Copy Desk Figures
Unfortunately, the copy desk
decided to take a trial balance
on his figures and run up the
total. Men on copy desks have
q way Of falling into mean and
vicious habits such as that.
They'll spoil a good story on
you to get fact right any time.
So you need not try to imagine
their gleeful chuckle when it was
discovered that their expert in
the South had the Red Birds
winning 152 games out of the
scheduled 154, and no rebates
for cash, or double-headers,
either.
But what I wanted to say
about the new member Of the
Runyon clan, in addition to ex'
tending the congratulations Of
this column, was that Mr.. Nc
Cam probably won't find his
pappy-in-law greatly excited over
his picking of the Senators.
What his pappy-in-law would
like for him to pick, if I am any
judge, and I think I am in this
case, is the winner of that sew
enth race at Tropical Park.
And if it turned out to be a
20-to-1 chance-well, there would
be one son-in-law who stood high
around the parental hearthside.
The mention of Grimes re-
minds me that he is to be back
with Cardinals again this
spring. Past 40, tougher than a
pine knot, cocky and as embat-
tied as ever, old Hard Hat
Burl" has let it be konwn that
he expects to win IS games for
Frisch. Just a good man who
doesn't know how to quit. One
guy Lands will never have
to throw out of there for not
trying.
Come Back, Burleigh
Come on back to Brooklyn,
Burleigh. The gang would all
be pleased to see you.
Maybe Dee Tees is a morning
glory:
Those of you who know about
the horses know that Col. Ed
ward Riley Bradley, "One-Two
Ed' Of Idle Hour, always gives
his thoroughbreds names that
begin with the letter "B." Or,
rather he almost always does.
Once in a blue moon the spare,
elect and remarkable old gen.
tleman in the tall choker hits
on a name so perfect that he
abandons this tradition that
he has followed through the
years. Which is why you will
find a filly racing in the famed
green and white silks at New
orleans called Dee Tees. She
is by Bubbling Over out of the
mare Champagne.
Bubbling over won the Ken.
lucky Derby, you know. And
(BiH COrum, famous New YO'
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