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Evening star., 1954-04-16
Bod Time for an Interview
By Lewis F. Atchison

you'd better get the kids
agent to tell you something
about him i he's no talker, :"
Muggins Feldman, Bowie public
ity director, said the other day
before we interviewed Jockey
Stanley Small. Hes a good
story, but he won't talk"
MugginS was right. Stanley, a
hot apprentice in Florida last
winter, is strictly a "yes" and
mo" youngster. just like Willie
Shoemaker. And Tuesdays four
horse spill, in which he went
down but somehow escaped seri-
GUS injury, didn't help loosen
him up. 1t was bad day all
around for an interview.
The staff in the racing Secre-
tary's office had complained that
water was dripping through the
floor from the "hot" room, where
Trainer Eddie Law was sweating
Jockeys down to proper size for
their afternoons work. The ,elec-
trio scale was off the beam, and
a big. puzzled gent was sweating
profusely to get it right.
"Ha." he cried in triumph,
putting match covers under the
platform"
Somebody's Idea of Joke.
He fished it out, examined the
folded cardboard and tossed it
away. ,
That won't do any good" he
announced. slip a wedge of
wood in there and it will take
off a pound or two. but not a
match cover"
Juggling the scale in the jocks
room wouldn't help boy be-
cause the official weight is re-
corded Immediately after a race
on a scale near the winners
circle. So the match cover was
somebody's idea of joke.
YEAH" yelped one skinny.
undraped youngster. "They put
that thing in there and I weighed
a pound more"
Pretty soon Stanley came up
from the stewards room where
the jockeys are shown films of
the previous days races. He was
sober-faced, which was not un-
usual. The thought that his
mount was a big factor in the
Evening star., 1954-04-16
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Evening star., 1954-04-16
Stoffordshire Not to Run
In Derby, Trainer Decides

Staffordshire, Maryland's only
hope for the Kentucky Derby,
won't make it. according to
Jimmy Rowan, trainer of Mrs.
Henry A. PARIS colt.
Staffordshire, who won We'd
nesday's feature race at Bowie,
seemed tiring at the end of the
mile and sixteenth but came out
Of the race in good shape.
Rowan said that if the son Of
Endeavour II continues to train
and race well, he can be expect
ed to start in the Preakness at
Pimlico. May %.
PIEDMONT, Calf. April Is,
Rl.-The withdrawal of Swift
Sword from the Kentucky Derby
was announced last night by his
owner. Mrs. John P. Adams, who
paid $4,000 for the 3-year old
at an auction a few months ago
Trainer Charles Whittingham is
taking the colt to Belmont Park.
NEW YORK, April l6, (P.-
Trainer Bobby Dotter announced
today that James Cox Brady's
Best Years is definitely out of
the Kentucky Derby because of
a bad ankle. Best Years is at
Belmont Park and hasn't started
this season.
Evening star., 1954-04-16

spill that put four horses down
and may have resulted in Jockey
Mike Caffarella's permanent in
jury, weighed heavily on STAN
ley's mind. Everybody else wrote
it off as one of those unfortunate
things that will happen as long
as there is racing.
1.-THE horse in front of me just
stopped" Stanley told me. MY
mount was full of run but we
had horses on both sides and
couldn't 60 anywhere. We were
in a pocket and couldn't get
out"
Stewards Study Films.
Stewards william Harron and
S. Bryce Wing, after studying
motion pictures of the race. said
they thought Small's mount,
Flushing Dusk, a 5-year-old
mare, clipped the heels of Brass
field, with Bob German up, and
stumbled. Rewing. ridden by
Larry Hansman, and Flaming
Evening star., 1954-04-16
Campos, Ex-senator, Hit
in Head by Thrown Ball

ATLANTA. April 16.-Chatta-
nooga's Cuban first baseman was
knocked unconscious by q
thrown ball in last nights South
ern Association game with At
lanta.
Campos was felled by a ball
thrown by Ted Laguna, Atlanta
catcher, who tried to catch him
off first base in the 10th inning.
The ball struck the former
Washington player on the head
as he dived safely back to the
bag.
Attendants at Crawford Long
Hospital today described Cam
pos condition as good.
Campos is q 27-year-old from
Havana. He played last year
with Toronto after previous
service as a pinch-hitter and
outfielder with Washington.
Evening star., 1954-04-16
Determine Is Running In Bay Meadows Derby

Louisville for the big race May /.
The colt. named for a jazz
record made by Band Leader
James, is due in Kentucky
around noon tomorrow. James
Session was clocked at 1885
for seven-eighths in a final
workout yesterday at Hollywood
Park.
Evening star., 1954-04-16
OF q
Stanley Small Less 7ukotWe Than Ever After 4Horse Spill

Fool. with Harry Stauffer up,
piled into the tangle and went
down.
Newspapermen who saw the
film couldn't agree as to exactly
what did happen. It was i'm
possible to see whether. Flushing
Dusk hit BraSsfield's heels. al
though it seemed that way.
Brassf1eld stopped badly, no
question about that.
Small wasn't at all unnerved
by the incident. He piloted Roz's
Folly to second place behind
Twintone. the 9-to-5 favorite, in
the first race on the next days
program and had to beat Bernie
Hewitt on Willow Hollow in a
whip-cracking stretch ride to
do it.
He rode two winners yester-
day and was nosed out of a
third by Jockey Arthur Monteiro
on Joan of Arc, a 16-to-1 out
slider. in the seventh race.
"Some kids just go we'll with
horses" said Walter Van, Small'S
agent. land he's one of them. I
take him over on the back side
(barn area) to meet a. trainer in
the morning and the first thing
you know he's in a stall petting
a horse"
Son Of Truck Driver.
Still an apprentice. although
he loses the "bug" next month,
Stanley halls from a Philadel-
phia suburb where his father is
a truck driver. He has three
sisters and a brother, the latter
apparently too big at is to think
about becoming a jockey.
"He weighs more than I do
now," said Stanley. who at 10
tips the beam at 103, including
riding silks.
Stanley's mother helped him
get started in racing. She went
over to Delaware Park one
morning when Starter George
Palmer was schooling horses at
the starting gate. He directed
her to Bill Passmore, who took
the lad in hand and later helped
him get connected with the
stable of Bayard Sharp, wealthy
Evening star., 1954-04-16

sportsman and a director of
Delaware Park. Stanley, who
now rides against Billy Pass
more. jr., at Bowie, got his first
winner at Delaware last summer
and the second time out his
horse won but was disqualified.
Van watched Stanley ride at
Maryland half-mile tracks and
at Waterford Downs, then took
over his book at Sunshine Park
Led Sunshine Park Riders.
"He was II wins behind Allen
Rose when I got him." the agent
said. "but he finished the meet
ing with So wins in AZ days
and was tied with Willie Shoe
maker in the national jockey
standings before he was set
down 10 days. He's third now"
Small has no hobbies. Has no
time for them, Van explained.
The youngster is up by $50 ev-
cry morning, reports to Norman
L. Haymaker's barn after some
coffee and toast, and gallopS
three or four horses. Haymaker
has leased his contract from
Sharp. Back in his quarters by 10
o'clock, Stanley bathes and then
hits the sack again until 1870.
Then it's back to the track for
seven or eight races. After din
ner Stanley is ready for bed
again.
A dutiful. serious youngster,
Small sends money home each
week and invests everything over
his modest living expenses in
Government bonds.
Stanley, so far as we know, has
caused very little trouble. The
only complainant to date is Joe
Brocator, jr.. assistant racing
secretary at Charles Town.
II was getting my records in
shape and trying to find who had
the contract on Stanley Kosmal-
ski" Joe explained. Nobody ever
told me he changed his name to
Small"
Stanley decided on the shorter
h andle after the Delaware
meeting. It hasn't affected his
style or his manner. Both are
excellent.
Evening star., 1954-04-16
Mrs. Patterson Wins
Indiun Spring Tourney

Mrs. William Patterson carded
a SO. minus 10 handicap. for a
"a yesterday and won the net
prize in the ladies day golf
tournament at Indian Spring
Club. Mrs. Jack Minovich's 80
was good for low gross honors
and Mrs. George Berman and
Mrs. A. B. Zwigenhaft used only
81 puts each, low in that de-
partment.
Among the guests, Mrs. Nor
ris Moss of Woodmont won low
net with a 101-26-75. Mrs. j. w.
Godfrey of Congressional took
low gross with a 81.
Evening star., 1954-04-16
BY the Assoeiated Press

SAN MATEO. Calf, April 16.
Determine, one Of the favorites
for the Kentucky Derby. goes
tomorrow in the $4,000 Bay
Meadows Derby, his last Califor-
mia prep for the Louisville classic
May /.
Andy Crevolin's gray colt
probably will be the favorite in
the mile-and-an-eighth test for
3-year-olds, although he is
carrying 1875 pounds and is Civ
ing 6 to IS pounds to his rivals.
A field of about 10 is expected.
Bay Meadows was closed to-
day because of Good Friday.
INGLEWOOD. Calf, April Is
R.-James Session, the Ken
lucky Derby hope of Harry
James and Betty Cradle, was
booked to fly out tonight for
Evening star., 1954-04-16
Route for Autos Going
To MiddIeburq Races

Washington motorists going
to the GlenWood race course at
Middleburg, Va. should cross
Key Bridge or Memorial Bridge
and follow Lee highway to
Fairfax Corners. Turn right on
Route so and follow this road
to Middleburg blinker light.
Turn right at blinker light.
Race course is about one mile.
The first of the days six races
starts at 1880 pm.
Evening star., 1954-04-16
Goshen Talks About CLOSING
Famed H0f-MIe Trockin'55

where seven world records have
been made, conducts racing in
the afternoon. For 100 years it
has attracted great horsemen
and horses of the trotting sport.
Goshen also has the mile
track Good Time Park, scene
of the famous Hambletonian, to
be raced this year August 4.
Evening star., 1954-04-16
Pennington Hunt Club
Headed by 0'Hagan
Special Dispotch 10 The Stor
CHARIOTTESV1I,E

CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va.
April 16.-John F. O'Hagan of
Oak Hill has been elected presi-
dent of the Pennington Hunt
Club to succeed Jack Rinehart.
Douglas MacGregor was elected
vice president. Clay Peyton and
w. A. Rinehart III, were re-
elected secretary and treasurer.
respectively.
Mrs. William H. White is
chairman of the spring show
committee. This all-day school
ing show will be held tomorrow
at $3.50 am. at the Hunt Club
Show Ring.
Evening star., 1954-04-16
EuqIes List Exhibitions

PHILADELPHIA, April 16 (P.
The Philadelphia Eagles an
nounced today they will play
exhibition games against the
Baltimore Colts in Hershey. Pa,
August IA and the Green Bay
Packers at Atlantic City, N. j.,
September S. Both will be night
games.
Evening star., 1954-04-16
Hasty Road Favored
Over GoYamO in Dash
Al KeeneIand Today
BY the A.,eeinisd Prass

LEXINGTON. KY. April 16.-
Hasty Road, winner Of more
than a quarter of a million dol
lars in the Midwest but never
victorious in a race elsewhere,
returns to competition in Ken
lucky at Keeneland today.
The Hasty House Farm racer
scored two of his most important
triumphs in Kentucky last fall.
winning the Breeders Futurity
at Keeneland and the Kentucky
Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill
Downs.
The Churchill Downs race was
his last victory as he was a dis
appointment during the winter
at Hialeah. However. he has
been showing his 1858 vigor
since his return to the Blue
Grass, so he is the favorite to-
day.
His chief rival in the featured
seven-furlong race is the Wood
vale Farms Goyamo, who ran
second behind Correlation in the
100000 Florida Derby in his
last public appearance. Goyamo
won the Bahamas Handicap at
Hialeah at seven furlongS, same
distance as today's test.
Will Skip Blue Grass.
Hasty Road was the leading
Juvenile money winner last year.
He will skip next Thursdays
$25, ,000-added Blue Grass Stakes,
a mile-and-a-furlong tuneup for
the Kentucky Derby. Owner A.
E. Reuben said that, instead, the
colt would go in the Derby Trial
at Louisville April 27.
Other Derby eligibles in to-
days race include Timely Tip,
winner of the Arkansas Derby
last month: Super Devil, third
in the Arkansas Derby, and Ad-
miral Porter.
Discussing Derby prospects,
Reuben indicated he might send
Sea o Erin, as well as Hasty
Road. in the May l race. Sea
o Erin's showing in the Blue
Grass Stakes will determine this,
he indicated.
In workouts yesterday, Hasty
Road was timed in :512s, Sea o
Erin, Isl; Admiral Porter. :48.
and Everett Jr., :474s, all for a
half-mile. Goyamo worked three
furlonpS in .383k.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-03

ton are Friedrich B. Lee, adj
ministrator of the Civil Aero
nautics Administration, and
Bennett II. Griffin, airport
director.
The complaint recited that
the defendants had unfairly
given an exclusive concession for
airport rights to a Hertz COM
petitor, Warren E. Avis, operator
of a ''rent-a-car" company. The
complaint declared that the
Hertz Co. had bid $31 500, plus
1914 per cent of all over $500, 900
revenue annually for the conces-
sion. This. it was stated, was
far in excess of the original Avis
bid.
However, the complaint
charged. the defendants or their
agents. lin violation of conf
dence." revealed the Hertz bid
to Mr.. Avis who met the terms
and was awarded the contract.
In addition, the complaint as
serted, the defendants violated
regulations by not advertising
for bids. It was charged that
Hertz drivers subsequently were
harrassed by airport police and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-03
SuburbonS Sanitary Commission
Praised for Improved Accounts

could not get a clear picture Of
what had happened to the sani-
tary agency's money over the
past several years. The experts
did not suggest that there had
been any dishonesty. but said
merely that no one could tell.
Manager still Issue.
The major recommendation
listed by Mr.. Lusk as rnexecuted
was appointment of a general
manager to assume overall con-
troll of the commission, which
the expert said is "a very big
business" The manager, Mr..
Lusk admitted, would be hard to
find and would rate a $40, 900
to $50. 900 salary.
Commission Chairman Ray
mond W., Bellamy said he be-
lieved such q high salary would
not appeal to taxpayers. Mean
while. he said, the efficiency sur
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-03
Driye-Ur-Sef Firm
Wins Order Against
Airport Interference

National Airport authorities
today were ordered temporarily
to refrain from interfering with
delivery OF Hertz Drive-U r-Self
cars for use Of arriving plane
passengers.
The restraining order was
granted by Federal Judge Henry
A. Schweinhaut in the U. 8.
District Court for the District
of Columbia. A hearing on q
motion for q preliminary injunc-
ton was set for September Is.
The suit for Injunction was
filed BY Attorneys r. Joseph
Donohue and Abraham 8. Gold
stein, representing Harry Friend.
trading as Hertz Drive-Ur-Self
system.
Named defendants in the &C
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-03

vey has made administering the
commission virtually foolproof. /"
Mr.. Bellamy indicated he did not
think a geenral manager Is
needed.
But Commissioner L. s. (Ted)
Ray said he. for one, has not
ruled out the idea of q general
manager. He said q few candi-
dates for the job have been inter
viewed. including one who wanted
a $4,000 salary. but none is
under consideration now.
The salary question looms as q
large one for the commissioners
because the highest paid Mary
land official. the president Of
the University of Maryland, gets
only $22. 500. The Governors SAL
airy is $500.
Budget Improvement Seen.
The original survey said the
commission lis not capable Of
performing the day-to-day duty
OF management and should dele
gate this work to a single we'll
trained and experienced individ-
ual to act as a general manager"
Mr.. Lusk noted that the COM
missions new system Of annual
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budgets is q 'svast Improvement"
over earlier practices. Until 1851.
the commission operated without
q budget. selling bonds to raise
money as the need arose. It held
its first public budget hearing
this year, after stirring up q
storm Of protest among citizens
groups by drastically increasing
water and sewer rates behind
closed doors in 1853.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-03

The same efficiency experts
who blasted the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission
two years ago for conducting its
500 million business in admin
istratiye chaos" said yesterday
the commissions house now is in
almost perfect order.
The commission was handed a
progress report on action taken
since January, 1858. to correct
its tangled affairs.
William A. LuSk, senior public
utility accountant of the New
York business consulting firm of
Ford, Bacon & Davis, which
made the severely critical orig
inal report, said recommends
tons which already have been
put into effect will save the $780,
900 cost of the survey in one year.
The commissions records we're
in such a mess when the ex-
perts were called in that they
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-03
indians in Canada
Now Totul l45,000

OTTAWA.-There were about
200, 900 Indians in what is now
Canada at the time of the first
settlement in North America
some 400 years ago.
Soon after the Eurd4eans ar
rived the Indian population
started to decline and continued
to fall until it was thought the
Indians were a dying race.
There has been a steady rise in
the past so years, however. and
Canada now has an Indian popu-
lation of more than las 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-03
World Population
Rising at Rate Of
100000 a Day
BY the Associated Press

ROME, Sept. 3.-Experts here
for the United Nations confer
ence on population figure the
worlds people are increasing at
the rate of 100000 every "a hours.
They don't mean, that only
100000 new babies are born each
day. The experts figure 100000
more persons are born daily than
die.
1t amounts to an annual pop
ulation rise of about 1914 million
a year. The last estimate Of
growth five years ago was as
million a year.
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Former Afghan King
IS Robbed Of Sc, 500
By the Assoeiuied Press

MILAN, Italy, Sept. 3.-Police
reported today that Afghani-
STAINS former King Aman Ullah
was robbed Of $1,000 worth Of
money and valuables on the
Paris Trieste train.
The lost articles were in two
bags which disappeared from the
ex-king's compartment yesterday
while he was returning from q
vacation trip In France and
Switzerland.
Aman Ullal1 now lives in Rome.
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oftimes arrested on charges Of
doing business at the airport
without q license.
The suit asked that the con-
tract with Avis be voided and
that any interference with Hertz
drivers be forbidden,
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conodiun-U. S. Trode

OTTAWA.-Canada consumes
Is per cent of all United States
commercial exports. United
States purchases account for so
per cent Of all Canadian ex-
ports.
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The Key West citizen., 1954-10-21
New Trial To Be
Sought In 81.
.Right-Of.Way

A motion for a new trial will
be filed in the state-county suit to
move buildings on Stock Island to
make way for the four-laning of
U. S. l, Paul Sawyer, county legal
adviser, said today.
The second trial of the suit in
Circuit Court ended late yesterday
afternoon when the six-man jury
found for the defendants.
Last July, the first trial ended
when the jury could not agree.
The state and county contend
that five property owners and
leases have buildings in the right
of-way of US. /.
The state proposes to four-lane
the highway from Key West to
Boca Chica and says the buildings
must be moved.
The defendants were Alton G.
Parks, Lawrence Dion, The Sin.
clair Refining Co., Adolfo Boza,
and Charles L. Moody.
Judge Aquilino Lopez, Jr., or.
dered court recessed until 9:3C
am. Monday after the jury re-
turned the verdict.
The Key West citizen., 1954-10-21
Three Are Held
As Suspects In
Store Robbery

Three men suspected of robbing
the Thompson hardware store, 920
Caroline ST., are being held in the
county Jail today after they were
picked up by city police.
Acting on tip from the cap
tain of the shrimp boat Cherokee"
Chief Bienvenido Perez and Patrol
man Rernard Waite jailed the men
Wednesday iafternooR and after
questioning, turned them over to
county authorities.
The men were identified as Pa
trick H. Sinex, Lawrence Cortell
and Frank Mcclure, all crewmen
aboard the shrimp boat. Cortell
was later released, according to
the Sheriff's Department.
Police also confiscated two rifles
and two fishing rods and reels iden-
titled by Charles Thompson, mana
ger of the hardware store as part
of the loot from the Tuesday night
robbery.
The suspects have denied that
they had any part in the robbery.