Evening star., 1955-07-10
WIN, LOSE OR
DNAV By FRANCIS sTANN
In Case You're Interested

writing syst-ndeed he wrote very little of his chit-chat
column I'm The Wake OF The News"but promoter he
the most successful and imaginative of all sports editors
and the IS million his endeavors gained for charity not
exaggerated One of Wards last serious writing efforts in
volved the picking of his time Astar Game baseball
team, opinion to which he fully entitled inasmuch
he invented the spectacle nearly % years ago.
of Wards Choices which appear the August issue
of Sports Magazine may surprise They Lou Gehrig
first base Billy Herman second base; Arky Vaughan short
stop AL Rosen, third base Babe Ruth, Ted Williams and
Stan Musal oued; Gabby Hartne catcher and Bob Eel
ler Hubbe Lefty Gomez pitchers Arch incidentally
the first Of succession of standou sports pubicists at
Notre Dame which boasts of Charley Callahan. After
Ward graduated in 1920 he succeeded by the noted
Ncrystal-ga Francis Wallace
Willie Hartack now leading Willie Shoemaker in most
by jockey in 1885, rejected for military service
ice last week. but Willie willing! In fact he'd chartered
plane to report to his draft board in Pittsburgh when his
rejection slip was received.
PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL PLAYERS more apt
to get lost than small children but just to play safe George
Marshall putting Swami his transportation expert
plane for Chicago tomorrow Swann job will be to that
% or % Redskins proper fight for Los An
gees where the big squad will train Once the jobs DONE
Swami returns to Washington to pedde tickets.
Durocher criticized for picking Willie Mays
the National League AStar team yet the Dandy Little
Manager also could be accused of bending backward by
not picking his players Mays is only the second Giant
named to the squad Don Mueller having been previously
selected by fan vote Leo could have selected Sal Mag
who had 94 record without raising rucku but the Lip
Insists aDdeQ OF managers came 10
pitchers.
eve went strictly on the vote he says Each manager
submitted eight and picked the with the
most votes don't believe Mage received any votes at all
At the very most he got The true of Warren
SPAIN of Milwaukee"
TWO FORMER FIGHTERS who agents for
jockeys Charles Town. Harry Jera and Johnny Ardun
picking Rocky Marcano to knock out Archie Moore at
Yankee Stadium September TO- era former featherweght
champion of Baltimore likes Rocky inside of six rounds
Harry also good golfer handles the riding assignments for
Sammy Paumbo while Ardun is in charge of the book for
his brother Ray and for the leading rider of the current
meeting, Apprentice Joe French.
Florida sports writer's saying the University of
Florida next fall will have its greatest football team in
years which is bad for George Washington.
The Coonals have date with the Gators at Jacksonville
October 8.
Eddie Law, one-tme AAU bantamweight champion, has
baooned ITO pounds Che 18 in his salad Of 2
but this he will shed 5000 pounds Not off him
SELF however Law is in charge of the reducing
the jockey quarters at Monmouth and he estimates his
charges will sweat off that much during the meeting
BASEBALL. UMPIREs quit for wide variety of reasons
but it remained for c. A. (Bud) Newman the American
Association to admit that only 81 "the
is bit trying for of my age" The association
apparently took him seriously it purchased Thomas
Bartos from the ThreeI League to replace him. Barto
Is "a.
When Heinz Nordhof recently criticized automobile
racing he showing courage than many other big
president
of Germanys Volkswagon Co., blasted racing because
there nothing that could be learned from racing and
because its aims have become more than questionable"
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THERE MUST BE something about the feed on the
Emerald Ise else why the three leading in this
country-Nasrulah, Khaled and Anbhai-from Ireland?
Moreover all three bred at the farm, the Aga
Khans Sheshoon stud Floyd Patterson have looked
much better to rngside witnesses than he did TV when
he whipped Archie Mcbride the other night the SCREEN
it didn't look as if he were fighting much and he was
clumsily green, or about three years away.
At the next meeting of American League club owners
the main problem, although they hushng it up, will be
the problem Of the Senator's There is minded
clique in mood to tell the Grfths to stir themselves and
get ball club sell out liked Johnny Sains reflec-
tions when he pointed out that ball player is nece-
sary failure because he has been traded sold released
He himself remembers being released times
ball. The people who did it." San comedies did the right
thing at the time but kept improving little by little" That
10 understatement.