The Washington times., 1936-12-21
GLEN
MCCARTHY
AT THE RACES


as kid in Indiana, than to wit
ness the Kentucky Derby. Wonder
why professional aStrologers
haven't turned their attention to
picking winners of the football
games if they're such seers! Maybe
there'll never be another major
Eastern, MidweStern or Southern
football team not member of
some conference, and without
scruples against going to the Rose
Bowl that will get through a
season unbeaten, untied-but not
UNINVITED!-to the big Cali
fornia game.
Bill Slater, crack N. B. C. foot
ball announcer, is a college prexy
in Brooklyn. At the close of the
major league meetings in New
York, baseball wiseacres were will
ing to wager you that Dizzy Dean
would open the season with Gin
cinnati. No athletic exhibition
ever made so instantaneous a hit
in New York as the Winter Sports
Show at Madison Square Garden,
two-buck seats bringing as high as
ten a copy the closing night.
Too many of the sensational
young ice hockey forwards of only
three seasons ago are playing al
ready as if burned out. Have you
noticed how many effective, en-
during defense men of hockey
are medium-sized fellows-Eddie
Shore, Frank Clancy, both lasted
a long time-and what would any
manager give for youngsters their
| likes! Now Alan Murray, hardest
hitting of current defense men, is
one of the smallest in the National
Hockey League.
Wonder why Buffalo wouldn't be
a good city for George Marshall's
homeless Redskins of professional
football, who fought out the ma
tional pro championship with
Green Bay Packers? Ozzie Mel
son, the ork leader, starred in box
ing and football at dear old Rut
gers.
San FranciSco's Lefty O'Doul is
being touted as future big league
manager, also as the fashion plate
of baseball. Dutch Reuther, one
time pitching ace of the majors
is another Pacific Coast (Seattle)
manager who is close to getting
his chance at a pilots job in the
big time.
Polo players used to last longer
than any other athletes-as stars
But no more, what with so many
crack youngsters. hard riders
long and accurate shooters, com
ing up every season. Roland Har
riman, son of the old railway
king, Edward H. . has lured fou1
young men of enormous wealth
into owning and driving trotters
and PAGERS within the past year
Helen Wills Moody is stout be-
lever in the future Of Alice
Marble. Thirty-two nations play
basketball; the game, like racing,
seems to go in any language
jeremiah T. Mahoney, new head
of the A. A. u, is a rapid, force
full speaker.
No one on the radio is more
like her real self, in voice and
manner, than Adela Rogers st
John, who is fan for every sport
including parchesi and yacht
ing! William SlavenS McNutt, the
movie script writer, is big enougl
to play center on a team o1
giants; once a baseball and box
ing bug (also ghost writer FOL
Luis Angel Firpo when the Wilc
Bull was Slam-banged to defeat
by Dempsey, McNutt now freti
through 10 months of every yeal
trying to find boat sure OF
winning the annual Los Angeles
Honolulu yacht race,
Fred Warnings manager, Johnny
O'Connor, claims it was Bugs
Raymond, the colorful pitcher ot
old McGraw-Giant days, who once
listened to the story about rict
kIeptomanic, and then cracked
"I'll bet that guy was born with
silver spoon in his pocket"
Black Colds Kentucky Derby
Jockey. . j. D. Mooney. is now
a trainer. If he probes as able
saddling horses as he was in theil
saddles, Jimmy has an excellent
livelihood before him.
New Orleans boasted the first
famous sports club in America
the Olympia, where three worlds
championship fights were staged
in a single week-the greatest box
ing carnival ever known.
Copyright. 1888. by the Christy Walsh
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