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Evening star., 1954-12-05

The Years Top-Roied Books in the Field Of Sports

the '53 Braves. Meany wrote the
chapter on Organization, as well
as those on Eddie Mathews. War
rem SPAIN, Bobby Thomson. Joe
Adcock. Andy Pafko. Jack Dittmer
and Danny O'Connell. Ed Prell
of the Chicago Tribune wrote the
one on Manager Charlie Grimm.
while others of the Braves were
profiled by various writer's.
Ira Smith, Alexandria's demon
fan. turned out two more books
in a continuing series. These were
''BaSeball's Famous Pitchers" and
''Baseball's Famous Outfielders."
Smith. one of the most diligent
of researchers, turns up some good
anecdotal stuff in the lives and
careers of old-time and current
stars. Both books were illustrated
by Leo Hershfield.
The timing was bad, as it turned
out, but several books on the
Brooklyn Dodgers were published
in 1854. "The Dodgers Way to
Play Baseball" is a serious work
by AL Campanis. designed to help
youthful amateurs and semi-pros.
The other book, "The Rhubarb
Patch" is billed as the story of
the modern Dodgers, with Red
Barber providing the wordage and
Barney Stein the pictures 1t
would have done better if pub
lished while Charley Dresser was
winning pennants in Brooklyn.
Baseball Extra" an album of
profiles by the gifted Frank
Graham, rates high praise. It is
a collection of IT human interest
prof1leS with some fascinating
sidelights on some of baseballs
immortals. The collection ran as a
series in sports magazine.
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Choosing the Right Books for Your Christmas Giving

The pages of this book, bound in
rich, red cloth and stamped in
gold, are nearly as large as those
of this supplement. They contain
beautiful pictures of 81 historic
homes. in glowing color and
offer. over 200 interior and
exterior photographs. The homes.
from Maine to Georgia, from
Tennessee to the Hudson VAL
ley.. include lovely Dumbarton in
Washington and Betty Washington
Lewis elegant Colonial home Ken
more, in. Virginia. as. well as many
others.
Another lavish gift books Pierre
Joseph Redoute's Roses" (Ariel
Press; $3.50 The famed French
botanical artist published in the
182Os a three-volume set in 80
parts. known as LES Roses" The
"a plates, each on a full page,
represent the best and most varied
selection of roses from the original
volumes. -. .f.....e. -+p ,,,re
The forests. woodland creatures
and. flowers. come alive in jean
neate. Klute's woodland POF-
traits" Gittle, Brown: 500. The
large book Q2as by 1870 is COM
prised of SO full-co1or nature
photographs taken by Miss Klute.
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Uittle. Brown, which concerned
a boys prep school, and Robert De
Vries' "Gala Day" (Vanguard. the
story of a youths return from war.
Some of our best known novelists
added little. if anything, to their
regulations with new publications.
Thomas Mann's short novel. "The
Black Swan" (KnopD, while writ
ten with his usual perception and
meticulous attention to detail. is
a morbidly pathological study of an
attractive middle-aged woman
stricken with fatal illness. There
is drama of a sort in the story,
but it has the depressing effect of
a sudden chill, without the COM
pensating warmth of humanity.
John Dos PassoS turned back to
the '3Os in "Most Likely to Sue
ceed" Prentice-HalD His char
acter, a writer who fell for COM
munism, was a man without in
tegrity to start with, so that his
further degradation was a matter
of little moment.
On the other hand, j. B. Priest
ley in "The Magicians" Harper)
gave us a highly engaging fantasy.
In "The Conquest of Don Pedro"
CMorrow) Harvey Ferguson, the
SouthweSt'S most able novelist,
offered an excellent study of a
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but represents a labor of love.

but represents labor of love.
"Coach Tommy of the Crimson
Tide" was authored by Naylor
Stone, sports editor of the Bir-
mingham, Ala, Post-Herald, and
is another labor of love for an old
friend. Stone gives an intimate
account of Thomas great Alabama
bowl teams. He wrote the book after
a number of long ses~'nns with the
ailing coach, who had chosen him
to do the job.
"This Was Football is the title
of Heffelfinger's book. which was
written for the old Yale hero by
John McCallum. It has some high
points. particularly in the part de-
voted to Pudge's early years at
Yale. The amazing Heffelfinger
liked to tell how he had played
football off and on for so years and
was no admirer of the present
game and style of play. The chief
fault with the book is that there's
too much McCallum-not enough
Fudge.
Bobby Dodd, who is thinking of
retiring after nearly Is years as
head coach at Georgia Tech, also
turned author during 1854 with
Bobby DOdd ON Football" 1t
covers every phase of the modern
game and is well diagrammed and
illustrated.
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The book is bound in full buckram,
gold stamped and is boxed. A
touch of beauty out of the South
west is "The FIowering Cactus"
edited by Raymond Carlson (Mc-
Graw-Hill; $3.50. More than 80
full-color pictures, as well as many
black and-white photos, of more
than 800 varieties of cactus.
For Music Lovers
Sit by cracking yuletide fire
and watch the scenes and stars
of opera come to life in Daniel
Blum's "a. Pictorial Treasury of
Opera jim America" .(Greenberg;
$1O). With more than $500 pic
lures and captions of dramatic
scenes and costulned stars of yes
terday. and today, Mr.. Blum covers
all the famous, standard operas.
as well as many of those which
are given infrequently. And, for
those who gather around the piano
to- sing beautiful music during the
holidays, there is the new "Fire-
side Book Of Love Songs" edited by
Margaret Bradford 'Boni tSimon
& Sc11uster; So. A collection of
some 100 favorite love songs from
all over the world. Piano arrange
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Macia Davenport, a popular nov
elist, turned out "My Brothers
Keeper" (Scribner's), about two
brothers who ended up like, the
real-life Collyer brothers, who died
in filth and clutter in an old New
York mansion. Miss Davenport has
imagined lives that would lead such
brothers to such an end. gtssss
I found Winston Clewes' 'sPea-
cocks on the Lawn" Dutton) de-
lightfully witty. Robert Carson's
"The Quality of Mercy" (Holt) is
worth a mention. He wrote "The
Magic Lantern" Hollywood "his-
torical."
"The Night of the Hunter" by
Davis Grubb (Harper), book I
missed, received a divided, but on
the whole favorable, press. I liked
Jon Godden's sensitive story of In
dia, "The City and the Wave (Rine-
hart). In "The Sage of Canudos''
(Dutton), Lucien Marchal, a Bel
gian journalist, made a compelling
novel out of an episode in Brazilian
history in the 10th century. Ste
phen Longstreet's too-long story of
an artist, "The Lion at Morning.
(Simon & Schuster) has a cumu-
lative power. --
If you like an appealing fantasy
and one that's different from most
stories of the sort, don't miss Paul
Gallico's Love of Seven: Dolls"
doubleday. And if you know
somebody who still believes in good
and evil and isn't ashamed of q
touch of wistful sentiment. send
that person this bewitching little
book for Christmas.
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And the Mucubre

Perhaps it's the times-wars on a
monstrous scale, weapons of un-
speakable horror-but some of our
writer's are turning to the macabre.
I nominate as the two best novels
of the dreadful and the sinister
"The Bad Seed" by William March
Rinehart), the story of an 8-year-
old girl who killed people calmly
and adroitly, and "Side Street." by
Robert 0. Bowen (Knopf) the story
of woman who burned with a
pure malevolence Mr.. March,
skilled novelist, died a few weeks
after his new book was published.
Mr.. Bowen is a writer of great
promise. His first novel was "The
Weight of the Cross"
Wright Morris, whose several
novels have established him as an
author of extraordinary quality,
fell down to an extent. I fear. in
his new novel, "The Huge Season."
Vlking). Certainly it has it's
amusing moments, but it seems to
me to hinge on a pretty thin mar
rative
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Portruit of q Doctor

Morton Thompson, who was
known for his biographical novel
Of Semmelweis. the discoverer of
asepsis, completed "NOt as Stran-
ger" few months before his un-
timely death. The book is an over
long. sprawling novel, vast in de-
tail, and yet it is one of the finest
portraits of a doctor ever drawn.
Mr.. Thompson's doctor is a dedi-
Gated man. in the profession only
for the, good he can do. We learn.
unforgetably. what medical edu-
cation means and what confronts
the young physician starting in
practice.
Mr.. Steinbeck has written better
novels than "Sweet Thursday" but
it is the best he has written in a
number of years. He returns to the
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on a Hudson Fiver steamboat. and
his brother Joseph. A fascinating
story of the great and near great
who have strol1ed across it's plush
carpets, this famous hotel having
been the temporary home OF Presi-
dents Pierce. Lincoln and Coolidge.
Two excellent books pertaining
to the Old Dominion are Shadows
i'm Silver" by A. Lawrence Kocher
and Howard Dearstyne (Scribner;
$7.5O), and Houses Virginians
Have Loved" by the late Agnes
Rothery iRhaehart:: $7.95. The
former is book of more than 300
photographs taken by George and
Heustis Cook, which comprises a
picture history of Virginia from
19OO.Ns Thes other is volume
of all the familiar Virginia man
sions and also some of the lesser
known, equally lovely examples of
Virginia., architecture, illustrated
with 100 photographs s'@'s '-s@'
Many. Of ms will A~recalf- some of
the beautiful scenes in A. Aubrey
> Bodirie's chesapeake Bay and
Tidewater" Hastings House; $1O.
The 220 photos in this 144-page
hook represent the best from thou
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Douglass WolIop

Douglass Wallop. a native Wash
ingt0nian and q graduate of the
University Of Maryland, really hit
the jackpot O few months back
with his Faustian fantasy about
Joe Boyd. rabid fan of the Wash
ington Senators who sold his soul
to the devil in "The Year the Yam
KEGS Lost the Pennant." That was
supposed to occur in 1858, SO, OBJ
viously. the book was written before
the last pennant race was decided.
Young Wallop's accomplishment
in creating out of a. middle-aged
real estate salesman home run
hitting hero who could out-FauSt
Goethe's Faust and outslug Mickey
Mantle is really an artistic one.
The book was acclaimed by re-
viewers and was a Book-of the
Month Club dual selection for
September. The author deserves his
reward for the days and nights he
doubtless spent watching the do
ings of the Senators at Griffith
CtodiIiYN ~
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GrontIund Rice

No book in recent years had
been more eagerly awaited than
Grant Rice's own story of his life
in sport" The widely loved dean
of Americas sports writer's had q
story to tell, and he really told it
in a book that was finished only
three weeks before his death last
July 13 at the age of 73.
Since "The Tumult and the
Shouting" wasn't published until
November / and was warmly
praised in many recent reviews.
there is no need to write at length
about it here. 1t should be en-
phasized. however. that the book
is no rehash of Rice's more than
$4,000 columns Instead, it is, as
the veteran writer described it in
a prologue. summing up of his
Evening star., 1954-12-05
BY Charles M. Eeon
Sports Editor of The star

Two standout books-Grantland
Rice's autobiographical "The Tu-
mutt and the Shouting" and Doug
lass Wallop's fanciful novel. "The
Year the Yankees lost the PEN
nant"-are the chief reasons 1854
has been a vintage year for sports
literature.
Half dozen or more other ex-
cellent sports books were published
during the year, among them the
biographies Of two great football
coaches who have passed on--Jock
Sutherland and Frank Thomas
and the football recollections of
the late Pudge Hefelfinger. prob
ably the greatest lineman who ever
played the game. But none of
these can be compared with the
top two for literary merit and all
around quality.
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On the Diamond

Baseball more than kept up with
football in the number of books
published. The prolific Tom
Meany. one of the best of all
baseball writer's, contributed "Mil-
waukee's Miracle Braves" which
was assembled and edited by
Meany and written by him and
others. Based on the doings of
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mood of "Cannery Row." to which
Sweet Thursday" is sequel, and
of "Tortilla Flat" Doc. Mac and
some of the other characters of
"Cannery Row" are back with much
of their old charm. If Sweet
Thursday" is not up to "Cannery
Row." it still is probably the most
completely entertaining novel of
the year.
"The View From POmpey's Head"
by Hamilton Basso Doubleday
was highly regarded by critics. It
was one I did not review, nor was
I able to read Hariette Arrows
"The DOllmaker" Macmillan
which also received excellent re-
views.
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German city. The author of the
World War / classic, "All Quiet on
the Western Front" has done Moth
ing better than this new. novel.
which within speck on the-vast
canvas of war gives us something
of the whole picture. at least the
universally of hardship and suf-
fering
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Few First Novels

In the Christmas supplement- OF
a year ago. I found consoling
circumstance of a relatively barren
literary year in the appearance
of a number of unusually WELL
turned-out first novels. Regrettably
I found few this year.
Several first novels of distinct
merit may be mentioned. These
include "The CObweb." William
Gibson's story of neuro-psy-
chiatric hospital (KnopD; Nathan
iel Burt'S "ScOtland's Burning"
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Picture Books

Picture books will make gorgeous
gifts this year. Take "The Second
Treasury of Early American
Homes" by Richard and Dorothy
Pratt (HaWthorn Books: $12.50).
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memories OF the great sports fig
ures whom he knew intimately
during his more than so years Of
covering the sports scene. No
other writer ever was so close to
those "conquering heroes" or re-
ported their feats so lyrically.
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On the Gridiron

"JOck Sutherland, Architect of
Men," is the story of the great
Pittsburgh coach as seen through
the eyes of a longtime friend.
Harry G. Scott of Coatesville. Pa.
who was student at the University
of Pittsburgh School of Dentistry
when Jock was an instructor there.
The book is not a professional job.
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SPORTS in Action

Oscar Fraley. another we'll
known sports writer, collaborated
on three sports-in-action books
with Charles Yerkow, who fur
nished the photographs. In "Bas-
ketbalI in Action" Fraley gets
Coach Joe Lapchick and several of
mis- New York Knicks to explain
and illustrate how to shoot, pass,
pivot, dribble and rebound. In
How to Play Championship Base
ball." such players as Allie Rey-
nolds, Sal Maglie, Phil Rizzuto ct
al do a similar service.
The third Fraley-Yerkow book
is titled Pictorial Guide to Casting
and Spinning" 1t covers four
phases of f1shing-fly-casting, bait
rod, spinning rod and surf rod.
Among the demonstrators are Ted
Williams and Sammy Snead.
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man who succeeded with al. the
odds against him. The setting is
the New Mexico of 70 or 80 years
ago.
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For the Golfer

Chick Evans. who once won the
National Open and National Anna
teur golf titles the same year, also
uses the illustration technique in
his Golf for Boys and Girls" It
should be valuable book for
beginner.
Joe Novak, highly regarded as a
teaching golf pro. uses Sd pic
lures which are intended to show
the actual angle of the club in the
most important positions of the
swing.
In Frank Sedgman's Winning
Tennis" the Australian star out
lines his personal experience and
training methods as a basis for
instruction. Frank also has news
for most American sports follow
ers, to wit: Tennis is not Australia's S
national game. Soccer gets the
top spot, according to Sedgman.
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sands of pictures of bay and of
tidewater Maryland. Virginia and
Delaware, taken by this well-known
photographer in the past q years.
For the Patriot
Living close to the heartbeat of
national government, all Wash
ingtonians will enjoy "The Story of
the Declaration of Independence"
(Oxford: $10. The text is by
Dumas Malone, a noted historian
and Columbia University professor.
and pictures are by Hirst Milhollen
and Milton Kaplan, Library of
Congress staff members Described
as a pictorial biography" the
book gives complete history of the
document, as well as background
of the political events which led to
the signing of the Declaration. in
Guiding some little known informa-
ton. Illustrated with more than
$50 pictures. from public collections
and priyatesowners.
Evening star., 1954-11-05
Fort Meade Tackles
Monmouth Tonight in
Bid for Sixth Victory

With a record Of i've victories
in six games. including four
shutouts, Fort George Meade
plays one Of its most important
rivals Of the season, Fort Mon
mounth, N. j., tonight at Fort
Meade. Game time is 8 pm.
The Meade eleven, which has
a total of 1873 points against 80
for its opposition, ranks fourth
among the 13 service teams in
the area.
Coach Joe Pritchard says his
entire Meade squad. which de-
feated Howard University last
Saturday. is to 6. will be ready
for tonight's game. with the ex-
ception Of Quarterback Bob
Henry. who received a badly
bruised hip in the Howard con-
test.
Fullback Don Lipelt leads the
Meade scorers with three touch
downs and two extra points. Lex
PrindIe. a halfback, has three
touchdowns, while Co-Capt. Nick
Farkas, a guard, ranks third
with II extra points in 13 place.
ment attempts and another one
on a run.
Meanwhile. Boiling Aif Force
Base. with Fullbacks Allen Boyd
and Len Bulmer and Halfback
Lowell Perry on the injured list.
is wary about its game with
Little Greek Navy at 2 pm. to-
morrow at Bolling's Arnold Field.
The Boiling game is the only
military contest in this area to-
morrow. Fort Belvoir has an
open date and the Quantico
Marines play at Paris Island,
S. C.
Boiling is going after its sixth
victory. Little Greek has a 3-3
record.
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Club No. II Risks Record
In Police Boys LEAGUE

The s0-pound team Of Club
No. II in the Police Boys Club
football league. undefeated and
unscored on this season, will put
its unmarried record on the line
when it plays Club No. 4 at 7::30
pm. today at Fairlawn. In all,
10 games win be played in the
league today and tomorrow.
The remaining schedule:
Today.
S0-pound class--Club No. 5 VS.. Club
No. 10. $3.50 p.Tii., at Fairlawn.
120-pound class--Club No. I3 vs. Club
No. z, $50 p.nlp at, Banneker play
TOmorrow
1O0-pound class--Club No. vs.. Club
No. 10 and Club No VS.. Club No. III,
IL an. at Fairlawn.
120-pound elass--Southeas VS.. South
west, IL am, at Hoover playground
l40-pound class-Club No. 5 VS.. Cub
No. 10 and Club No, VS.. Club No. III !,
2:30. pm, at Fairlawn. Southeast vs.
Southwest at 2:30 pm. at Hoover play
ground and Club No. IS vs. Club No g
2:30 PM. at Banneker playground.
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NEW YORK, Nov. King
Ranch's, High Gun, the years
leading money winner, will be
retired for the year because of a
strained side muscle, Trainer
Max Hirsch says.
Il would say it's a million to
one against his being ready to
race again this year." the trainer
added.
High Gun was replaced by
Fisherman in the Washington
Cd. c. International at Laurel
after suffering his injury. He
returned to Belmont yesterday.
The only other big 1854 race
for which he was eligible is the
Pimlico Special November 20.
We'll keep him here until
later in the month when he will
go to Columbia, S. c." Hirsch
said. II wanted to bring him
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Six Races Scheduled
In Montpelier Hunt
Program Tomorrow
BY Robert B. Phillips
Specioi Corres spondenf Of The Stur

MONTPELIER STATION, Va,
Nov. 5.-The annual Montpelier
hunt races, featured by the Noel
Laing steeplechase at two and a
half miles, will be held tomorrow
on the estate of Mrs. Marion
DUPONT Scott near here.
Motorists coming from Wash
ington are advised to cross Me-
mortal Bridge and follow Route
SO to Fairfax Circle.
From Fairfax Circle, turn
south on 209-21l to Warrenton.
Between Warrenton and Gull
peper follow Routes 29-15 and
from Culpeper to Orange,
Route Is.
Continuing on Route Is to
Montpelier Station it is advisa-
BILE to inquire for the exact direc-
ton to the race course.
Six races are scheduled on the
afternoon program. The Noel
Laing carries a purse of $4,000
added.
The remainder of the program
consists OF two fat races, two
hurdle races and a second stee-
plechase over the big brush
course.
Post time for the first race is
lis pm. The entries:
Evening star., 1954-11-05
Lawrence Delays Suit
Against Major Leagues

Attorneys for a Piedmont
League owner have delayed in
definitely the filing of a suit
seeking millions in damages for
alleged invasion" of minor
league territory by radio and, TV
accounts of major league base
ball games.
James p. McGranery, lawyer
for Frank Lawrence, who owns
the Portsmouth club in the Pied
mont circuit, said yesterday he
was not yet ready to act. Nc
Granery said the suit will be
filed, but he refused to indicate
when.
Lawrence has said he will seek
damages from the 16 major
league clubs and Commissioner
Ford Frick. Previously. Lawrence
had said the suit would be en-
tered by November /.
Evening star., 1954-11-05
Underdog Howard
To Meet Hampton

Howard University's football
team Journeys to Hampton, Va,
tomorrow seeking its first Cen
trail intercollegiate Athletic AS
sociation victory in a game with
Hampton Institute.
Hampton will go into battle
a 7-point favorite over the Bisons
off it's ga record for the season.
Howard has a record of "a.
Howard faces an uphill battle
in its race to gain the first divi-
sion of the 18-team circuit. 1t
needs this victory over Hampton
tomorrow and subsequent tri-
umphs over Delaware State and
Lincoln.
Hampton has turned in tri-
umphs over Fayetteville Teach
ers. Winston-Salem and Lincoln
while losing to Maryland State.
North Carolina College and Della
ware State.
Hampton brought an unbeat-
en- record to Washington last
year, but was upset by Howard
lit. Coach Tom johnson is
confident that his proteges will
take Hampton again. "All we
need is a break or two" he adds