Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-02
SPOTLIGHT
SPORTS
OF This And That
By BILL FUCHS

IF THE GIANTS win the pennant, getting in and out
of the Candlestick Stadium will be ordeal during
the World Series. The stadium will be ready but the
roads won't be and there those who say it will
be 8hour grind winding, obsolete road to the
highway. San Francisco's football officials green
eyed the baseball teams DEAL The Giants will pay
less for II home than the Forty Miners pay for
10 games including exhibitions, in Kezar Stadium
That Carroll Highs Bob Dwyer commands respect in
basketball circles is in the fact that
invited to help conduct Jim Poards fourth annual clinic
october 1917 at Abingdon, Pa Pollard has three other
roundba doctors lined up in George Mkan, his former
teammate with the Minneapolis Lakers Forde Anderson
head coach at Michigan State. and Referee Len 10TH
Ed Mathews of the Milwaukee Braves next Sunday will
become the first athlete to receive the Senior Don Award
from the Santa Barbara, Caln Chamber of Commerce,
honorary title in the past by such Chief Justice
Warren and Symphony Conductor Leopold Stokowsky.
Word from the West Coast is that Reggie Cornell who
trained Royal Orbit for his Preakness victory has
dismissed by Mrs Hana Braunsten, the colts owner.
Earlier Reggie had lost with Silky ,sulvan's
after making the horse household name.
WAYNE HARDIN NAvY's new football coach, may
put new kick into the game this fall Soccer-type
kickoff with star doing the job. The kick is
made with the side of the foot and when done right,
Hardin says, the ball goes country mile. Don't be
surprised if Peewee Reese winds up manager of the
New York club in the new Continental League He's the
type wanted according to Dwight Davis; r, of the
clubs hackers.
Mrs Dorothy Kllam, another stockhoder in the
continental New Workers, was Ill IN Montreal and
when asked by her late mutimiionaire husband what
she wanted most replied "If could only the Dodger
games on televson" He could not refuse such small
request and had the pped in at the cost of 100000
Paul Richards Orioles manager, says the league
will not have the about difficulty of getting
players. Their problem" he says, will be getting
spectators"
When the Braves released Inieder Casey Wise
recently they also lost top scout Hugh Wise the players
father who quit after Is with the club He signed
Yankees,
for the Pittsburgh Steeers works out in Tulsa in the off
with the help OF his wife, Pat who holds the ball.
and two small daughters, who retrieve it.
BILL SHOWROOM YANKEE slugger out with broken
wrist, felt sorry for himself at first "And then saw
lady with no legs" he says "she pushing herself
along in little wagon. that and forgot my little
troubles"
For those not sure what the knucklebal u.s. here's
description offered by specialist the subject Bati-
more's Hoyt Wilhelm, in the current Saturday Evening
POST "The confusion about the knuckeba begins with
It's name Actually, the knuckleS never touch the ball.
They stick up when the pitch is thrown The ball gener
ally held with the index and middle fingers dug into
the like claws and it is released with slight snap
of the wrist" Jim Hese, approached by gamblers in
the Chattanooga scandal but let off because of coopera
ton with authorities star pitcher with West Virginia
University, compiling 24-1O record 1885.
The Senators keep 200 balls hand, but they take
no chances losing to thievery They're locked
In thick vault and only two of the stadium staff Johnny
Morrissey and Billy Robertson, know the combination
THE PRIVATE OPINION here is that this country
needs womens track and field like it needs depression.
You don't even need program to tell the players Our
women athletes who competed courageously and inglor
ouSy against the Russians recently in Philadelphia
virtually the persistent band that showed up the
1856 Oympics at Melbourne. All we do inter-
national basis for track to apologize and
it should any day the handful of richards
promoting it that there ITO million other citizens who
couldn't less.
Bobby Ava recently acquired by the Braves from the
Red Sox, never has been souvenir minded but he
he'll guard carefully the ball he smacked for his first hit
in the National League. 1t a homer against the
Cincinnati Reds and snapped the Braves seven-game
losing streak Remember Walter Miles, who caught
for the Senators in 1857? He has just been sent down
from the lastplace Dubuque Iowa. team of the Class
Midwest League to Roswell, N Mex, of the Sophomore
League, both Pittsburgh aflates 1t even swap
of managers.