Evening star., 1951-05-24

name in that year. despite competition man with
bushy eyebrows Clark Griffith who Wash
ington seventh place ball club into pen
nan contender that II in Walter Johnson
straight 80 for the and famed 3o3 baters The
golfer Freddie Mcleod who the National
Open 9OS Doyle king of the tennis players
The big football team Georgetown A fellow named
Harry Costello famous during this and much
travelled athlete named Curley Byrd president of the Uni
versty of Maryland. In neghborhood gang kid who had
uncle who personally knew Joe Turner the middeweigt
wrestler then starring at the Gayey Kernans Theaers
hero The fight mob talked of Kid Egan and Tommy
Lowe and Kid Sullivan.
But during the years just prior to World War and
during the 920 that Mike Macdonald really
their own, athletes co-managers Spadngs
when it located street, Fourteenth. Cy
jova paunchy host, and Mike equally afable
coorful There back room, complete with appro
pirate splitting stov and from this emanated of
the ctys big sporting matches whether boxing
ball, rowing, canoeing baseball track.
Sports in Washington during the early 2o contrasd
vvdy with sports today sandlot baseball star like Tots
Long Reggie Rawlings Lem Owen Henie Webb
thing Of celebrity hghight of the
Potomac Boat Club tangled with the Washington Canoe Club
Track followers the merits of prners Dorsey
Griffith, Silly Maxim and Brook Brewer.
Boxing in those times Illegal but interest bootleg
battles whether staged in the center of town under the guse
OF exhibitions for cardhoding members of private club
at BerWyn Keniworth greater than Gode Ahearn
Honeyboy Fnnegan Young Dencio Henry Lamar
and coming heavyweight Marty Gallagher
those were the big names.
THERE WERE NO REDSKINS, but there were the Mohawks
the Shamrocks composed of who held jobs played
sempro football and baseball their
pttance they could get not have been football
but rugged and when the MohawkS Mercurys
to clash hopkeepes in Southeast Southwest Washington
closed their doors for proper witnessing
The old Spaldings store the hub 1920
presiding Cy and Mike Today Redskins
have their Offices The boxing promoters out
that they're legal and they have Only
wrestling anything rough vaudeville
there time when it considered honest
wagering Of 100cent dollars the likes
Montana.
They used to sit in that back Cy Mike and Jack
Tuloch and Rod Thomas half Others when
they weren't cooking promotion they would talk of
well the local boys doing major league baseball The
local" boys included such Monk Fraser Bea
Clark Denny Sothern Paul Florence Bssonette Billy
Martin Several of these fellows played Georgetown
they used to talk much Martin instance played
football and who assigned the stubbng toe on
the heads of rival and PROSTATE good
pileup occurred
IN THE BACK ROOM of Spaldng's when the store was
run by Cy and Mike Macdonald all quxotic knavery
was practced Jack Tuoch always delighted telling
story of how he induced three Quanco stars to visit
the store wearing spnts bandages on the eve of an i'm
portant game for which ne imported Leathernecks One
was the famed Frank Goettge
The suckers bought package onv to discover that
Goege and his aides actually had been physically all the
time Tulochs team handily, he established himself
as quite maordomo That's the story goes ANYWAY
Frooaoly there are dozen anecdotes
Macdonads Mike and Cy but lack space prevents ap-
cation Perhaps it's sufficient to that when they were in
Their heyday as landlords at spaldng things better
all around.
Now they're gone. Mike Cy . Jack Tuloch . Goettge
and lot Of others. town is poorer as a result