Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-20
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Like q Breath of Spring

=, THEY LAUGHED AT Tom Nugents positive thinking"
dogma and suspected his I-formaton serious Of
fensive weapon but the magician from Florida State
fooled all the skeptcs yesterday Maryands football
team like the first breath Of spring. hopped-up
band of opporunistS that made Nugens debut Of the
most eminenty satisfying in memory at least in this area
He 1t big" the consensus in the wake of the
Tefrapns 277 victory West Virginia team that was
rated by the odds makers But the Mountaineers
were fooled than the doubling Thomases with Nu-
gents Iformaton double wing spreads and radical
fourman line defense. I'VE made million mistakes
out there moaned Coach Pappy Lewis Of West Virginia,
I'VE we're just licked terribly. But Maryland has nne,
fast team"
Dick Novak, the dark horse sophomore quarterback,
called memories of Bernie Faloney with his three touch
down passes and Vincent Scott needing help from the
wider goal posts looked like another Dick Bielsh
with his three booming field goals. Coming back after
missing 38-yard try that struck the crossbar and
bounced back Scott booted his successful kicks 49, Al and
48 yards the last breaking Bielskis Maryland distance
record Of Al yards, set in 1888
But mostly it was Nugents day. glitterng triumph
for guy who may have been wondering when his luck
would change he left Florida State to to
College Park.
SIGHTS g. SOUNDS Rocky Marciano, spending few
hours Golde Ahearns bisro route to refereeing
assignment limiting broadly that If the price is right he'll
fight Ingemar JohanSson. The exheavyweight king has
begun to lose of that weight he put during his
retirement. Boom-Boom Becks fowery oratory while
introducing Camo Pascua at the Alexandria Grandstand
Managers Club awards dinner Hes the greatest pitcher
in the game today doomed the Senators pitching coach.
- frankie Frisch telling Calvin Griffith, Baseball is
daytime sport know you clubowners will never give up
night ball. but it's phoney When was kid wouldn't
have been allowed to stay out past 10 o'clock.
This has been a of freak football accidents and
tragedies far Don Boil of the Redskins has bad leg
injury suffered while merely assuming his lnemans posi-
ton At Note Dame two Of Joe Kuharchs Quarter
back George and Halfback Red Mack suffered knee
injuries within FIVE minutes of each other-each ironically
not due to contact but by sudden twisting OF
the player himself In his autobiography that hits the
stands week from tomorrow 1.-THE Taste Of Ashes Henry
Holt CO.. Bill Stern not only tells how he licked the
morphine habit but admits that Of the stories he
told the air fantasy I'm the theater 1t is
know dramatic license Stern writes Il cannot state too
emphaticaly that was living in the makebeneve world
of the theater and the license took bascaly harm
less" 1t insulting to the listeners intelligence too
: TED COLNA, STAR HALFBACK for George Washing
ton year ago. apparently has forgotten in hurry about
playing pro in Canada Ted is an assistant coach at
Mount Vernon High School, Just about the nrst person
Willie Shoemaker recognized when he carried from
the track after his spill Aqueducts grand opening was
Mrs Ruth Arcaro longtime friend who rushed to the
frstad room she had done last June Is to see her
famous hubby Eddie after his fall in the Belmont Stakes
Renforcements for the Senators in their touch football
game with the Redskins at Grifh Stadium Tuesday may
come from the four umpres assigned to the Washington
Yankees series They well qualified as to past (perhaps
too paSt proves because Charlie Berry was onetme
top Lafayette Jim Honochick played fulback for
Temple John Flaherty crackerjack end at Boston
College and Frank Umont guard for the New York
Giants from 1913 through AT.
1T WAS NEWS at the new Latona track the other
day when Jockey Clarence Meaux who used to ride for
W Hal Bishop on the Maryland milers, had only one
winner 1t the first time since the meeting opened that
he hadn't two races Meaux won five last
Thursday giving him total Of A winners for the first 10
days Horace Wades Kentucky track not far from
Cincinnati Meanwhile Jockey Johnny Rotz won Is races
ii nine days of total Of 81 mounts He four
more races five times in seven days.
might say the Cain Hoy stable has plenty Of depth
for the october 31s running Of the worlds richest the
Garden State Cain Hoy has nine egbes at Camden and
It's understandable why big stable would like to
make good showing When Tony Lee finished second last
year to First Landing he earned $59450 more than the
winning purse in many other big races. Now that Joe
similar "retrements" be forthcoming from AL Lopez and
Gordon definitely won't the Indians next year, will
Fred Haney two other whom the won-and-los
columns show successful?