Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-01
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DNAV By FRANCIS sTAf(N
Of This and That

NEW YORK, Oct. 3l-Not in many years has New
York been so stirred up college football game
Tor the hrst Armyr Force spectacle It's been like old
times Broadway what with the crowds the talk in
the hotel lobbieS The touch is all of the Air Force
blue uniforms The natives don't to know what to
make OF such strange brass
Johnny Bratton, the ex-welterweight champion who
has been confined to mental institutions since 1885, now
weighing 200 pounds in Kings County Hospital Bratton
who must have earned 100000 in the ring says II don't
belong in any of these places Latest scoop is that
during the interleague trading period November 81 to
December l5 Warren SPAIN will from the Milwaukee
Braves to the Yankees.
Neither Bob Anderson nor either of those good Army
ends Don Usry or Bill Carpenter held to be the most
valuable Army player going into odays spectacle with the
Air Force. Joe Caldwell, quarterback is the most
important man we've got team" Army Coach Dale
Hall said Hes srngy little guy all Of 1856 pounds but
he's our big man just the same"
' JACK CARBERRY, who, after 48 years as news
paprman is considered the voice of the Rockies far
football concerned Is retiring tomorrowbu not quite
for real Jacks still going to turn out Sunday column
for the Denver Post Jackie Robinson, the ex-Dodger
second baseman who now holds forth in the Newport
Post defends the Continental League in part this way
ITS simply that each team in the league will be in
the same boat insofar player capabilities concerned
They will not, and should not compete for few years
against the National and American Leagues"
According to Hank Greenberg, who is a member Of
the American League Expansion Committee the odds
81 in favor of the American League having than
eight teams by 1861 Roy Campanela is back in the
hospital for short stay, it's hoped to receive special
treatment Ebbets Field, the Dodger landmark since
1913 will be torn down shortly after the first of the year.
The mortgage market is tight according to the realtors
that 1t will be cheaper to destroy the historic park
MICKEY MANTLE, ALTHOUGH not widely heralded
as w.t. may have qupped the best line of the
for ball player when he philosophically commented:
There's one good thing about bad year. Nobody wants
you for banquet Those banquets could have been the
undoing OF Bob Turley year ago. He hasn't been the
same good pitcher since.
Dale Halls chief worry he said before his Army team
took the field against Air Force the lack of running
game. We're noted for it," Hall said "but in five games
we've thrown for more than 1000 yards O09 but have
picked up only SIS the ground That Just isn't right
even with Bob Anderson hurt Our biggest run this year
was by Don Bonko who went 81 yards And he's ullback
Mayor Bob Wagner may have been wildly extrayagant
IN his claim that ArmyAir Force would mean 50 million
In business in New York but for fact the game pleased
the merchants, although they figure it was 50 to So
million deal at best.
!: ONE FOOTBALL WRITER who covers the New York
Giants must have reached sort Of statistical peak
when he disclosed that last year Chuck Conerly the a.
yearod quarterback played 191 minutes and was spelled
by Don Heinrich for 110h minutes . . Chuck Dresser
wasn't kidding the other night when he spoke of the
possibility OF some real big trades" this winter With that
inteague setup the owners and general managers are
most eager to deal.
:. trio OF TV starS-Chuck Connors Jack Webb and
lean Marun-are among Los Angeles group interested
l acqurng franchise in the Continental League Branch
hickey president OF the ConnieS is ukewarm to the idea
we Will treat courteously anyone interested in fran
cfSe Hickey says but we are not interested in anv
Town now occupied by major league club unless the
cnp IN that town invites interest"
That will be the day-when Walter oMalley asks for
a,Conunental League franchise in Los Angeles.