Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-14
WIN, LOSE OR
NNAV BY FRANCIS STANN
And Still Game of the Week

game which off Saturday shaped up the college
game of the year Ironically it's still the big game of the
week end despite the hard times which have beset Notre
Dame and general loss Of prestige by unbeaten
Oklahoma
A lot of people are thinking Notre Dame can upset
the SoonerS couple of those in recent weeks did
suggest that Oklahoma all powerful Sooners IA,
Colorado, 49, didn't impress many folk Nor did the slug
giSh 1870 affair Kansas State.
1t is true Notre Dame has given up 81 points while
scoring 12 in the last two weeks. Navy resound
ingy 20 to g. and Michigan State perhaps,
with its 346 victory On the scoreboard at least Mch-
gan State seemed to win more easily than Navy But
scoreboardS be deceivng
Navy big. The only Irish score came on a semi
freak. Against Michigan State young Terry Brennan
thought his Notre Dame team played well
What it to boil down to is Oklahomas schedule
Is getting licked by Navy ard Michigan State while win
ming Purdue Indiana Army and Pitt, mark of an
underdog club against Oklahoma?
THE SOONERS ROLLED over Pitt Iowa State, Texas
Kansas, Colorado Kansas State and Missouri The rap
that Bud Wkinsons team doesn't play the good ones on
successive week ends . Notre Dame does.
Oklahoma beat Pitt 26-O. We that one. 1t was
TO at the half and it could have been 300 Notre Dame
barely squeaked by Pitt 1877, but Pitt may have i'm
proved six weeks Certainly the PantherS no
world beaters but they large. 1t obvious when
the season started that they green we'll big.
Oklahoma-Notre Dame is still the game of the week,
unless happens to be rabid Ivy Lacquer At least
the TV people think They picked the game long,
week end
OF THE AMENDMENTS written up for consideration
at the and leagues convention December 8
the least worthwhile would to be the unrestricted
draft proposal
Every player who has been in the minor leagues four
years would be subject to unrestricted draft
ported Phillip Piton chief assistant to George M Trau-
man, the minor league The draft price would be
$4,000 per player.
All there is the rub Very very few minor league
ball players worth S25000 in these days of the
cheap buck.
Maybe the Senators made the last great steal They
got Dutch Leonard from Atlanta for a mere $500 in
1898 He had previous big league experience with the
Dodgers in the National League from 1888 through 1886
He turned to be wonderful pitcher for the Senators
for the next nine seasons
THE EXPERTS SAID Leonard had only two things
going for hnl-control and knuckle ball Well it
true Leonard no spring chicken could throw the ball
over the plate And he could spin that knucker.
You do it this way Dutch used to say. He would
take cigarette from guy and then he'd flip it out in
front of the dugout 1t would go end over end and
Leonard would say:
"Knucklers the You don't know where its going
exactly"
During Dutchs regime-and don't forget that he
more games than any Washington pitcher except Walter
Johnson-the catchers the warest.
we had five KNOCKERS Rick Terrell used to COM
plain Leonard threw his butterfly of finger John
NggelnG had sort of three-hneer pitch And there
Mickey Hacfner, with two-iinger lob.
Roger Wolf gave every catcher fits We were always
duckng and lodging when Rog pitched. And then we
had Gil Torres. lie played hortstop and second base
about we'll he pitched But when he heaVed up his
knuckler he rough to catch
But you know" Rick used to add we got EN- out
Hters and catchers. too