Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-03

Racing men IN Maryland are
genuinely alarmed by the State
Legislatures threat to hand pink
slips to the three-man Racing
Commission and let the Gov
ernor pick a flve-man board in
its place.
> The new group would include
q couple Of guardian angels
to watch over Ocean Downs, q
struggling harness plant on the
Eastern Shore where sin Is not
rampant because vacationistS
have shown powerful resistance
to its lures.
ocean Downs contributed
some $780, less than ! per
cent Of approximately 50 million
collected in taxes from racing
last year in Maryland. 1t al
ready has benefited by special
legislation giving it a bigger bite
Of pari-mutual pie than other
tracks get. Now the word is out
that it wants better dates.
II understand they want to
rotate dates, especially with
Baltimore Raceway," one dis
gusted harness man told us yes
terday. ocean Downs wants
to run in July one year and
August the next. It's ridiculous.
They Estate legislators don't
realize how hard it is to get
competent help to run a track
when you're on a regular Sched-
ule. If they start shifting dates
around from year to year we
won't be able to get the best
men to run the place, or the
best horses. Wen just have to
take what's left"
Members or the Maryland
Racing Council and interested
horsemen had a hearing sched-
uled today before the Senate
Finance Committee at Annapo-
lis, but our informant wasn't
hopeful of the outcome.
There are IS men on the
committee" he said, land at
least seven come from the East
ern Shore, with its one poor
yourself"
To us it looks like the East
ern Shore. with it's one poor
relation trotting track, is going
to run racing in Maryland.
A difference of IA games in
the win column this year will
lift the Senators out of the
American League cellar and
move them way up into a sew
enth place tie with Kansas City
If the AS do no better than
last year. 1t would mean a final
won-lost record of 1881, and
all Cookie Lavagetto's men
have to do to accomplish it
is to play as well against the
other clubs as they did against
the pennant-winning Yankees
and the AS.
The Senators were 1912
against both last year, but the
drubbingS from Chicago, Cleve-
land and Baltimore ruined
them.
Being of a pessimistic ma
ture, we're picking Washington
to finish last again, with the
Yankees on top and a free-for-
all in between.
4 4
Stan Flowers, Georgia Tech
linebacker who had to sit out
last season, his first with the
Redskins. because Of a knee
injury, is as sound as a drum
again.
'Dr. George Resta examined
the knee and found that it's
got more muscle than his good
knee" Coach Mike Nixon said,
"Stan's been working out with
weights to strengthen the knee
and it measures bigger than the
other one"
Larry Morris, another Geor-
gia Tech linebacker recently
obtained by the Redskins from
the Los Angeles Rams, had to
postpone his visit to DR..
Resta's office for business rea-
sons. Larry has had a bad knee,
too. Right now, though, he
and his partners are preparing
to open a couple of miniature
golf courses they operate in
Atlanta and got permission to
come here later.
Two other Redskins who were
in town yesterday were End
Johnny Carson and Linebacker
Chuck Drazenovich. Carson
was en- route to Philadelphia,
where he'll spend q few days