Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-08
WIN, LOSE OR
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DNAV By FRANCIS sTANN
Of This and That

TALE OF TWO CITIES: It doesn't seem so long ago
that our town looked upon Baltimore bush mecca
for lacrosse Now If Maryland cousins minded
they might remind that in six official National Foot
ball League games the Colts have beaten the Redskins in
four And that during Baltmores six years in the Amer
can League the Orioles have whipped the Senators
five times
The Sacred Cows: Because Coaches Paul Amen Of
Wake Forest and Jordan Oar Of Yale have been quoted
recently criticizng football officials it is likely they will
be censured by the Ethics Committee the Coaches
Association which frownS on public criticism of whistle
tooers Coaches themselves blasted and players
and the press, but never, never, the Striped Shirts!
How is it that ex-footbal stars do well with
thoroughbred horses? Ralph Kercheval the great old
punter, long has been Sandout in the breeding field
Name more? How about Hack Ross, who trains
Warfare? He SINUS fullback in 1880. =.
Maybe George Washington hasn't much OF football
team but the downtown school knows how to dress its
bandsmen they don't look like fancy apartment house
doormen Even more radical, perhaps, the coed mem
bers wear skirts instead of long striped pants.
sCUTTLEBUTT is THERE won't be any fstic meet
ing between Weerweght Champion Don Jordan and Car
Basio until the doctors get Jordans red corpus
ceS to ounumber his white Don like all of the fight
racket is anemic Polylad, the outofnowhere geding
who spoiled First landings comeback by whisker last
week at Aqueduct is owned by Mrs @. A. S. McKean
whom tennis fans will remember Katharine winthrop
~ The rrepressibe Red Auerbach coach of the Boston
Cetcs, comes up with and novel reason opposing
expansion whether by the basketball football baseball
majors "There aren't enough referees of MIA caiber
to the extra games Auerbach charged coincidentay
just after paying another fine for protesting an arbiterS
call With Russia to be represented in the International
for second straight year despite disaster in 1859 1t
might not be bad idea the heads of state who
wrangng about a summit meeting to investigate the
procedures used by John Schapro and Joe Cascarela
Of Laurel.
The envelope from Duke was sent air mail from
Durham and marked do Not Throw Away! Important"
All it contained blurb about Mike MCGEE defensive
tackle and offensive guard boosting him for AAmerca
honors IF he not great football player there are
no great football Players Coach Bill Murray is quoted
$50
LOU SPADIA, general manager of the San Francisco
Forty (sning their first NFL title in their IA
year history insists that Lynn Pappy) Waldorf will
deserve much credit If the Forty Miners strike gold we
asked Pappy to take the head scouting year.
round basis in 1857 and he's giving terrific payof
in outstanding rockies Spada OF the former COACH
Meanwhile Coach Red Hickey must take bows because
he's unhesitatngy used most of PappyS discoveries on
defense and going into todays the were
the low team in the league defense allowing only II
points Last year they overwhelmed by 324 points
The AP sent out this item, which couldn't find room
earlier Rockingham Park gentleman obviously interested
in improving his finances stepped up to the Pic-Sx in
formation man for consultation He explained that he
wanted to bet on every possible combination the card
which pays off to those picking six winners The informa-
ton man explained there 1924 possible combna-
tons which would cost the selector $5488 The horse
player considered mOmenIarlly, shrugged,
chased 50 ticket
THE LOU MILLER who bought 5-year-old PAGER at
the Harrisburg Pa auction for $4,000 (not all his money
by any means and plans drive the horse in the races
is the New York World-Telegram sportswriter Lou
long overdue to lose his in the Sedenay Set
Some years ago. when small and dedicated group OF
United taes sporwrters toured Finland Norway sweden
and Denmark to study Olympic Games conditions Miller
insisted on climbing into his track suit at every stop and
personally testing the cinderpath He made everybody
else's "auuavit head" ache as he logged.
Dave Charnley the British southpaw who is scheduec
to fight Joe Brown for the latterS lightweight title
December 2 in Houston, is conceded better chance
than Kenny Lane, the United States lefty American
managers who have Charnley call him smoother
worker than Lane who pushed Brown to the limit.
The tip is out that Jackie Jensen is melting under the
perSuasveness of owner Tom Yawkey and will not quit
the Red Sox and baseball Marty Burke secretary
of the Louisiana State Athletic Commission is the same
Burke who pretty fair heavyweight, fighting Gene
Tunney and acting sparmate for Jack Dempsey Vice
chairman of the same commission is Pete Herman, ez
world bantam champ