Evening star., 1959-11-22
WIN, LOSE OR
DNAV By FRANCIS sTANN
OF This and That

B.. ALTHOUGH CAL GRIFFITH expects to do most of his
winter dealing with National League clubs he nevertheless
VIII oange Roy SeverS in front of the White Sox first
in hopes of landing Catcher John Romano in a multiple
player trade Chicago is the only team in baseball with
surplus OF catchers Cal needessly explains we
need one"
The November issue of Shipmate dscloses that the
varsity dressing room at the Naval Academy has been
designated The George Rasmussen Room in memory of
tne salty old chief who for many years equipment
manager and father confessor at Annapolis He won't
forgotten, ShpnGte After 10 years on the side
nes Jockey George Adkins has been restored good
standing by the Kentucky Racing Commission In case
you don't remember Adkins rode the rank outsider Halle
noy bred by Joe Enge and named after Mrs Engel to
10TH place finish in the 1850 Kentucky Derby
Haleboy had no business in the Derby of course and
10 make matters worse he "caSt himself" after ship
ment from New England to Louisville virtually on the eve
of the Derby When horse casts himself" it means to
fall down and require derrick to get up Nonetheless
Haeboy finished Just behind the favored California colt
Your Host Two weeks later Adkins suspended for
using an electrical Stinger Hallieboy at Churchill
Downs Che didn't in the Derby Ten years is long enough
to serve for miSdeed," spokesman decreed and so
Adkins who has been exercise boy at tracks not
holding meetings, is a legt jockey again.
UNSIGNED COMES A POSTCARD reading want
scoop? Check rumor that President Elkns will de-
emphasize soccer at Maryland-a team that's won IS
straight" This is just trhe too bitter. Lorenzo
Totoro, the onetime wild Bull of Ninth Street" when
fought as middleweight in the s2Os Che boxed under
@the name of Jack Renzo) finally is going to Italy.
oe Holman notes: one Of the peasantest surprises in
the local sports picture could be the Washington Pres
1dents, our hockey team" This is Joes nice way of
referring to the Presidents winners against the
~Senators and Redskins
Don Kelett, honor guest and speaker at the Grand
stand Managers banquet in Alexandria, is far from
average Joe IN sports Don who executive vice president
land general manager of the fabuousy successful Bal
ore Colts threesports (nne etters athlete at the
University of Pennsylvania and following graduation
1854 signed by the sox as of the early
ponus boys Two later he coaching at UrSinuS
College and five years after that Don head basketball
coach at Penn with his Quakers of 19445 winning the
Eastern Intercollegiate championship Then before taking
the Colt assignment, he SportScaser and in charge
-et TV operations at WILL in Philadelphia.
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= SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Just out, takes what seems
TO be Snide crack at the Laurel Race Course when it
concludes account of the eighth International by
Saying, maybe the Internationa-which should have
brilliant future-ought to be taken out of its inadequate
settng and transplanted to bigtme course" Where,
: when and how, pray TELL will ST come up with race
scourSe that is "bigtime" than LAUREL which is
beautiful spacious lavish and leaning backward to
snake the International classic If there's to be any
crtcism of John schapiros and Joe Cascarelas)
Its the start The fields get away in Straggy fashion no
crtcSm of Starter Eddie Blind and the feeling here is
that the horses, domestic and foreign alike out
the American box after short schooling period there
j. be fewer rhubarbs
= John Blackwood Second Secretary of the Canadian
Embassy, sends the sports section of the Winnipeg
Free Press along with the notation: Thought you'd like
know have cleat troubles in Canada too 1t develops
the winnipeg Blue Bombers 1911 victory the
: Edmonton Eskimos and used aluminum-tipped ceats
which viSiby upset the ESkmoS when they ruled
legal"
= When George Marshall and Cal Griffith were
musng rising salaries of athletes the other day. CAL
mascotbaboy of the 1924 Senators who the towns
only world championship revealed the total payroll was
only $120O00 Ted Williams all by himself has been paid
tSmore for a season
:. Sunny jim Fitzsmmons, "a, is back at Haleah
preparing for another winter racing and the tip
.is out that he's got couple of out of famous
racing mares he developed for the Wheatey Stable One
Is the colt High Powered, out Of High Voltage.