The Washington times., 1938-03-02

my re a d e rs
will carefully
Bill cOrum note t h e
phrase speaking generally"
Only a sucker leads with his
chin. Am I right?
But let us not court trouble.
We rad telegram last evening
from MI. william Frawley, the
No. spurts addict Of the Holly
wood screen and Broadway
stage in which he said:
Don't worry about Seabis-
cult Saturday. He will win the
Santa Anita by five"
Let Mr.. Frawley be advised
herewith that he can't scare us.
Not, at least, before we get into
town. What does he think that
100000 Santa Anita IS going
to be, one of those moving pic
turc races in which the heroine
rides the ultimate winner
around the track four times be-
fore her hair falls down, and
she suddenly decides to win
the race the fifth time around?
GO AROUND ONCE
Not much. They'll go around
just once for DR.. Shrubs hun
dred thousand and THE Bis
cult" had better not be waiting
for the salad course when they
whirl round the stretch turn
this trip.
I think that Seabiscuit ran a
race behind Aneroid Saturday
that will make him extremely
dangerous in the coming mile
and one-quarter spin. He did.
Charley Howard's hard-hitting
Hard Tack veteran didn't have
to run that race to convince
you that he'd be dangerous.
One look at the charts would
have been the Convincer. He's
always dangerous. But when
Master Frawley mentions five
lengths and intimateS that Sea-
biscuit will gallop to Pompoon,
Sceneshifter, Stagehand, Amer
old and probably a dozen others,
he's making cinema converse
ton.
FINISH BEHIND ANEROID
1t won't be that sort of horse
race, and don't let anybody
make you believe it will. After
all, making every conceivable
allowance, and he did undoubt-
edly take all the worst of it in
the San Antonio Handicap, Sea-
biscuit still did finish behind"
Aneroid, which is a position
that never yet has earned first
money in a horse race.
Among our pleasant travelling
companions on this trip has
been Dick Richards, owner of
the Detroit Lions of the Pro
fessional League.
Dick, who has lived in and
out of California for Is years,
is going to the Coast to super
wise his newest radio station in
Los Angeles, and to root Pom
poon home in front in the Santa
Anita. It takes a wise man
to be able to combine business
with the winning horse, and
the hustling Mr.. Richards is
Just that.
He tells me that If he can
get Earl Dutch" Clark out of
Pueblo, Colo. by September, the
pro grid's brightest backfield
star probably will take one more
fling at gridiron glory before he
hangs up his lucky and famous
number ~" for good.
DUTCH is THE MANAGER
Richards is only kidding
about getting Clark out of his
home town because Dutch" is
his manager. But its true that
Clark is the retiring, hideaway
type for whom it is necessary
to send a hack. And equally
true that he dotes on Pueblo
and rushes back there at the
first opportunity to remain as
long as possible.
The news in Richards report.
however, Is that Clark is not re-
firing from active competition,
as was generally reported last
fall. He's going to give that
leather lemon one more ride,
The top Sawyers of any game
almost always feel that way
when quitting time comes. And
"Dutch" Clark was a top saw.
yer in any football fans auto
graph book.
Oddly enough, we have two
pro magnates-Richerds and
Dan Topping of the Brooklyn
Dodgers-on this train, who
would like to get Chuck"
Sweeny of Notre Dame to run
for them next fall. The old
saying, you know, had it that
whatever ran for Sweeny wasn't
important.
This flashy end of the Irish
OF 81 runs for Sweeny, and does
q great job Of it. Ask the Pitt