The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-21

Walter Winchell is Bob Ccnsidine,
 sports columnist and magazine
 writer.)
 BY BOB CoNsIDTNE
 Things Walter Winchell and ! never knew before about sports:--
 The most compelling sports writer of all time was James I, who in 1917 wrote the Declaration of Sports ... It condemned Sunday dancing, archery, jumping, pole-valuting and ale-drinking while prohibiting bear- batting, love-making and bowling The French Revolution. started on an indoor tennis court, to which the indignant Assemblymen retired after Louis XVI ordered them locked out of their legislative cham bers The first sport of Kings" was court tennis, 1t being the fayorite game of a bunch of assordted Louis of France and Henry's of England Horserac- ing, now called the Sport of Kings gained It's greatest impetus from Queen Anne, who invented stake racing as well as sponsoring the worlds first race for dough. :"
 It is seni-sacrilegious for Jap- aiiese to applaud any outstanding maneuver by one of those huge over stuffed wrestlers who take part in Japan's bi-annual sumo tourna- fnents It would be like cheer. ing g sermon in church, for when one of the long -haired fatties nimbly dodges the attack of the other. 1t is not really dodge '. He is simply demonstrating to Japanese minds that a riinble word or an art- full bit of hedging can undo the effects of the heaviest onslaught. It is not unusual for wealthy Japanese families to buy box at the sumo shed for 100 years in advance.
 The first good woman golfer was Mary, Queen of Scotland. grand- daughter of James W. who threw golf players in jail because he be- lieved the game was rnenacing the compulsory sport of archery 7,
 Mary used a leather ball, packed tight with feathers. 5i.
 Just 30 years ago tJuly 20, lsS0 the Brooklyn and New York base. ball teams played the first profes- sional game Of baseball /. They charegd 50 cent admission fee 10 their game and 1,500 attended. It caused such a scandal that a number of righteous players either gave up the sport or banded into a group which promised never to let money and baseball mix :. The greatest drawback to the high ly publicized claim that Abrer Dou- bleday invented baseball Is that Doubleday wrote voluminously In his later life, and often autobiogra- pfically, but not once did he mem titn baseball .. West Polnt rec ords describde him as quiet, url- athletic young man, whose chief hobby was chess.
 Only one lilly has ever won the Kentucky Derby and only two nave won the Preakness, but the 4-footed girlies dominate the history of har. ness racing From 1845 until 1912 harness racing was ruled by Flora Temple. Goldsmith Maid, Maud E, Nancy Hanks and Lou Dillon Goldsmith Maid was the greatest horse that ever raced She was the truculent daugh- ter of a garbage-cart mare, would permit no one to ride her except a colored groom (who used her to carry him and his duslsy bride-to- be on their eiopemenD and wasn't successfully broken to saddle until she was eight She raced until she was 20 and, though she lived in the days of skimp purses, she earned $364,200.
 Bill Buckners senetnce, for using the mails to defraud, ended his ef- forts to get Los Angeles fran- chise in the National Professional Football league His plan was to ferry the players back and forth across the continent by air ,. .. |. 6uICe E1ltlcT ICStOLSu duSAAAB Aa German universities. zealous under grads are taking pride in their "narben"--or facial scars Many deliberately fail to have their fenc- ing wounds properly treated, 50 that the eventual scars will be more visible.
 The American Olympic Committee was somewhat perturbed to learn that Finland has decided to give demonstration of "basaballa" as itis peculiarly native sport at the l940 games in Helsinki The Films described the game as a new sport, played with a bat and ball, and whose players. after hitting the ball, run to the first of four even- ly.spaced stations X. The "En- cyclopaedia Brittanica" still regards Bridge. Camping Out .Pig-stickipg and Ventriloquism as sports. q.
 Tony dalento blessed himself, murinured a Hail Mary, and blessed himself again, just before waddling out to plan that terrific left hook on Joe Louis temple Friends of Bill Tilden hear that he is stone broke in London, though he made close to c half million dollars out of tennis Officials of the New York Yankees shook with the
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