Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-18
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BALTIMORE, May l7-Ths then must be the end Of
the Silky Sullivan saga Pimco officials admit that Silky
probably instrumental in swelling the crowd to 369l2
topped only for Preakness by 40,222 in l946-But his
eghhplace nsh after coming in 18th in the Kentucky
Derby, just about finishes him. As Bob Kelley put 1t,
They ruined good hunter by sending Silky to the
As for Tim Tam, you've got to all but concede the
Belmont Stakes to him. This on all kinds Of
tracks and in all kinds Of weather. He the 3year
old CROP the stubborn Lincoln Road who is making
career Of finishing just behind Discovery used to be
similarly frustrated when Cavacade tops. And then
there Jamie who finished behind Native Dancer in
the 1858 PreakneSs and Belmont.
Bob Wolf continues to educate such unlearned OATS
this listener when, after Lefteder Neil Chrisley allowed
soft liner by Bostons Don Buddn to fall in front of him
fora single, Wolf sputtered: "ChrSley apparently
making some sort of bluff" What-with nobody basel
If and when Floyd Patterson ever defends his heavy
weight title against Roy Harris of Cut and Shoot Tex
might be curious to how the township got its
Henry Harris father Of the Texas heavyweight explains
that many years ago oil boom ured hundreds Of
wanted strangers to nearby Conroe Them what stayed
got cut" says Them what ran got shot,"
FRANK EEvIGNE who used to coach track at George
town and is coaching Nebraska had IL 900 people
at his Nebraska Michigan State meet this week. When
Rookie Ralph Lumen got in trouble recently, Manager
Cookie Lavagetto out of the dugout to talk with him.
After moment Lument interrupted Cookie Better
60 back to the dugout Skip he advised, before my
gets cool"
the employ of the Colorado State Hospital. He is Jim
Bivn, who hurting for the Phies and forced Ruth,
then with the Braves to ground out to first base May
&c. 1885 The Babe had to retire from the game because Of
knee injury and afterward released. Sammy
Baugh president of Southwestern Fidelity Life insur
ance company in Texas One of the newest trailer
models the market is called Silky Sullivan. National
League clubs had better draw well in San Francisco The
Philes, their first trip to California discovered they
were paying $3.50 for breakaS-not la carte or steak
either And the Cardinals their recent sixday unket
to the Coast, paid out $4,000 for transportation
Glenn Cunningham, all-time great miller, predicts a
348 mile in the future and says that by 1872 the
4-mnute mile will be than 41O mile today.
Apparently pro football fans in Baltimore have made
the city attractive to the Colts because % of the players
now make their year-round homes there.
PETER flick, ONE OF AMERICAS top freestyle SWIM
his day. returns swimming pro the Army Navy
Country Club after absence of three years Ficks IT.
year-old son, Happy, is soughafer Schooboy football
star in Miami Scored four touchdownS in game in the
Orange Bowl Dinner jacket pressed? Eddie Rosenblum
gets sauted willard dinner May 20 by directors Of the
Jewish Community Center and Dutch Bergman is feted
two nights later at the Statler by the Touchdown Club
Jim Palmer the boy from West Virginia who starred at
University Of Dayton and was standout with the AAU
basketball team that just touned Russia reveals that
everywhere the Americans went in the USSR they were
asked why Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain weren't
the team. I'VE didn't have Negro player with u.s. and
it's hard to explain especially through interpreters that
Russell and that Wilt must play for college teams
game at Leningrad, Palmer guarded John Krumich
the 7-foot-4 34O-pound Russian star In Moscow cold
weather prevented game from being played in 1000
seat stadium and it moved indoors. "They
damned $1,000 people inside and turned $4,000 away"
Palmer reports an Ts it raned and 10000 people sat
in it. waiting for the rain to sacken When 1t did horde
of got their hands and knees and brushed the
protective sawdust of the court"
THE PHENOMENAL STARTS of Bob Turey and Don
hath ~ uhnr he al 70 Tho
bother Paul Richards of the Orioleshe says why just
Turley and Larsen good pitchers let go?" Paul
asks There's pretty good pitching staff of exorioes
scattered about the American League. Why not include
Jim Wilson, Mike Fornieles Ryne Duren, Don Ferrarese
and Bud Daley?"
Iba veteran basketball coach at Oklahoma State
is one Of the few to coach brother and son in
college competition First it his brother Clarence now
cage coach at Tulsa and this at Maryville tMo)
Teachers College His Moe, now freshman at oSU,
will be the varsity squad next fall
At a time when lefthanded hitters, notably Duke
snider groanng aloud how tough is to hit in Los
Angeles Coliseum quiet Mr. Musia went 4for4 on his
first game the Monstrosty Admiringly Gil Hodges Of
the Dodgers observed: THAT Musal-hed get hit in
pop bottle" Why pitchers always dealing when
they are being described in action by radioV narrator?
Are all those apologsts the air secret card payers?