Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
WIN, LOSE OR
NNAV By FRANCIS sTANN
OF This and That

DESPITE THE YANKEES Improvement after a dis
srous exhibition schedule Manager Cookie Lavageto of
the Senators isn't convinced New team to beat
In the American League. IF and Turey are knky"
Cookie says they're in tough shape Pitchers like Coates
Short and those other fellows may all right but
they can't blow you down like Turey get you out as
last as Ford when they were real good"
Ira Smith of Alexandria, noted baseball historian
author, was almost bowed over when Frank Home Rum
Baker was able to show up for the testimonial dinner in
MS oehaL thrown by the Home Plate Club Il had left
Baker at his home in Trappe the Eastern Shore
and he had bad case of virus pneumonia. How man
of "a could do what he did beats me" Ira confesSes
True was Bakers fete but many guest of honor
at similar affairs has begged off for less
Even at this late date a host of Joe DMaggios old
lanS are peeVed at Larry MacPha for having
Sdered trading DiMag for Ted Williams the fall of
1891 MacPhail then president of the Yankees verified
last week that he had discussed the swap with the late
Eddie Collins of the Red Sox that Boston turned it
down. D1Maggio admirers claim Williams never was in
the same class aaround player and that if the
mad been contaminated the Yankees would have won
fewer pennantS. MacPhaiS slant: 1.-THE Yankees would
have got the best of it from standpoint of
value DiMaggio, as great he was lasted only few
more years. He retired after the 1851 season. Williams
is still playing"
THE GIANTS HAVE LONG since gone but there's still
life at the Polo Grounds what with the Johansson-
Patterson fight in June, soccer American Football
League games and perhaps the Continental League next
season scheduled for the ancient Harlem oval Horace
Stoneham who holds the the Polo Grounds until
april SO, 1862 will get all the gravy from the Ingo-Floyd
remach because the $3.50 deal he had with
Stadium has lapsed.
Here is Al Cores explanation for shifting his drivers
from sportsman stock to the much faster nodifed
stocks this year Old Dominion Speedway. "nev oro
all cheating anyway. We always up to 2 or O'Clock
IN the morning tearing down because of protests
oyl SooanSK OF Detroit whose name is a byword
IN the bowling world has resigned after seven years as
tournament director for the Bowling Projectors Associa
ton OF America to become general manager of
Tor North America Bowling Inc headed by Ed Goldberg
mi rNricn nf Tpo
Bowling Center.
With the revival of the Jersey Derby at Garden State
on May 80 and the increase in added money for
AqueductS WtherS Stakes May g. there now are 20
100000 better horse America The first ever
for that kind of money international match race
between Zev, the Kentucky Derby winner and Papvrus
the EPSON champion, at Belmont in 1928 First regularly
scheduled race with $1O00O0-added was the Cofroth
Handicap at Aqua Calente which died in the 1929 crash
WALT BOND prize rookie outhelder of the indians
who will make their 1860 debut at Griffith Stadium
tomorrow, must truly be highly by the front office
which has placed huge photo of him in prominent
spot in the clubs office at Municipal Stadium in Ceye-
land Heretofore, only established Indian stars been
honored.
At Big A in New York (Aqueduct Race Course) two
japanese track bgwgs have been going through the
Tor officials. On the day when Salt Lake won and paid
$llO4O, japanese jockey from Hawaii, Roy Yaka, was
aboard and the two officiaS-Yosho Kodama handi-
apper for the Japanese Racing Association and Kyumaru
noueWent to the jockeys to congratulate the rider
1t turned out to be bit awkward however because Yake
doesn't speak japanese could the officials from Nippon
speak English
Few men who have owned favorites for racingS Triple
roWn nave more interesting backgrounds than Cornelius
vanderbilt Sonny Whitney, who will be roofing his
: compton In the Derby PreakneSS and Belmont Stakes
Y " captalned Americas championship polo team in
S37-8 served both Assistant Secretary of Commerce
and of the Air Force President Truman was an
Air Force officer in World War II overseas was chairman
OF the board of Pan American Airways at 80 and is
an established motion picture producer Once for kicks
he played the part of an Indian in one of his own films