Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-08
WIN, LOSE OR
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Some Notes Left Over

LES GIRLS-It had been raining for days The track
muddy and the crowd sparse The toutS at SUM-
shine Park between Tampa and Clearwater could find no
marks They were reduced to betting their money.
Their horses we're finishing up the track AS the long
gray day unoded they grew more sulen especially when
they watched the two old ladies few yards sway
Race after found the old ladies cashing tickets
Just before each they and minced to the paddock
The touts perpexed The ladies studied no scratch
sheets They had program between them but didn't
stick hatpin into it.
variety of jockeys wearing variety of colors we're
winning so the touts deduced they weren't backing
riding pet favorite color There only one logical
expanationthey were superb judges of conformation
condition.
Consumed by curiosity and envy, one of the touts
tipped his hat and asked, Ladies' you winning
big Would you mind telling me how you do it?"
"oh, not at ALL" replied, sweetly. you see,
friend told US that muddy days they braid the horses
tails We back to the paddock before every race and
whichever horse has his tail braided the highest bet
It's very simple"
HEART OF A LION-Chris Dundee had flown back TO
Miami from the Carmen Basilio-Ray Robinson fight in
Chicago Chris long familiar to Washington boxing Bluffs
as manager and now the promoter at the Miami
Beach Auditorium is Basio man. His younger brother
Angelo Is Garments cut man.
II don't think there ougha be no third fight between
those two Dundee said II think Basio oughta 90 back
to fighting weerweghts and let Of those legitimate
middleweights have Robinson.
Basilio great little fighter He's got the heart of
lion but the build Of welterweight He's too short too
light too subby armed and he doesn't punch hard enough
to tight full-hedged middleweights
IF had my say, Basio, Vince Martinez and Virgil
Atkins would fight round-robbn for the welterweight
title. And Gene Fullner and Joey Giardeo would chal-
lenge Robinson for the middleweight title"
Why don't you suggest it to Jim Norris?" Chris was
asked.
Jaw, what's the use? Fights are made according to
the money they can draw Baso never made no money
big money, mean-when he was weterweght champ
and he remembers he didn't, too"
STAGE FRIGHT-Just before the White Sox broke
camp Manager Lopez took aside his 19year-o rookie
outelder, John Caison who during the first two weeks
the club sensation
John" AL told him, you're going to indianapolis A
year or two In TrpleA and you'll be with us to stick"
After the young man had departed, Lopez sighed
"Its never easy to do although Calson is smart enough
to realize that it's big Jump from Class to the big
league It's big jump from visalia to Indianapolis for
that matter.
THE strange thing is that Callson stoned hitting
when all those movie and stpcture guys began failing
us over Florida They picked out Cason as our rooke-of
he-sprng and went to town. I'm told they did the
with Able Pearson
Pearson and Callison both we're smackine the ball
pretty good, although all know about Albe is what
read But 1t seemed that Pearson stopping hitting and
know my kid did, Just those photographers
made him pinup boy"
You're not thinking of banning all that attention In
the future, you?"
"oh, no." AL said quickly. Il want ball players that
people pay attention TO- don't want any other kind"
RECESSION-The television people gave the Orange
Bowl Committee deal Of hanky panky Sponsors they
cried, scarce other New Years Day football games
don't make any single indispensable. So to the
Orange Bowlers would you mind taking cut back to
$l75000 annually and by the way moving I'D the time of
the game so as not to conflict with couple of other bowls?
The Orange Bowlers capituated. They had been get
ting $275O0O annually for the Tv and radio rights And
they're moving up game time.
Lest the public interpret the new terms as sign that
the Orange Bowl losing face the Mamians in charge
were quick to point out that conditions change In 1885,
1t was duly noted the Orange Bowl had to chip In $500
toward line tolls In order to get the Columbia Broadcastng
System to broadcast the game.
One thing the bowl committee really seems ex-
ercsed about although keeping quiet is the dominance
Of Oklahoma in the socaled Big Eight The boys in Miami
are getting pretty tired Of Oklahoma.