Evening star., 1960-07-24
SPOTLIGHT
SPORTS
Of This and That
By BILL FUCHS

BETTING ON NUMBERS HE SELECTED from his street
address and his age high school coach recently
hit for 81 100 in the Big Bonanza at Shenandoah The
Senator'S who drew $4,000 fans last year and
with that mark at this point shooting for 100000
No prolonged losing sreakS and they could make it, which
would put them at that figure for only the fifth time in
60year history. The other times in the pennant-
winning of 1925 and the immediate postwar plush
years of 1946-1949
Vic SexaS of tennis fame made hole -n-one in golf
at Lake Placid, NJ Y, last week. Juan Marchal (pro
nounced Mahr-e chahl with accent the last Syabe),
who pitched onehtter the Giants against the PheS
last week in his first major league start cost the Giants
just $780, And if you think Daniel Francis Murphy,
the bonus boy Outielder from Massachusetts, who
signed recently by the Cubs for $125OO is Irsh you
half-right. On his mothers side he is Italian.
The purse for the famed Pmlico Cup race has been
doubled to and the distance restored to 2s miles
The 23d edition of this race will be run December TO-
JOE KUHARICH WARNS Notre Dame Alumni: Turn
to scapbooks men, and enjoy the gores of yeSter
year" Graduatons have hurt the Irish, but the head
coach says he every Nore Dame rooer regardless
of ancestry, to have something going for him this fall
'In spring practice used three backfeds" the exRed
skins coach reports "One consisted of Rukowsk Rat
kowsk Perkowski and Slakowsk. Another had LaMonca
Daberio Tocchini and Liggio. Another was Henngan,
Healy Ahearn and OHara"
The Matson Line freghter Sonoma due to dock at
Los Angeles yesterday tOtng A Australian horses valued
at $25OOOO Gene Gof, who made his money in OIL pur-
chased the lot and starting the rSt a-AuStraan stud
outside of Australia at his 8O0acre farm in Fayetteville,
Ark. Among the horses is Noholme 3-year-od chestnut
colt who AuStraia's last EPSON Handicap.
The Senators and Yankees will tange in an oldtimers
game August 20 at Griffith Stadium but Joe Cronn former
Washington Shotstop and manager and the president
of the American League won't be in the lineup He'll be
hand he Publicist Herb Heft form he filled
out but under remarks he wrote Cant playcant see
THE SENATORS CAME BACK from their road trip
enjoying distinction for them in recent years. of
pushing toward the first division. They game
Friday night They haven't finished at that level since
1858. On July 10 of last year, the Senators also
flirting with won-loss record at 43-46 and on
August 81 games below that modest goal An 49,
game losing streak will do that to a club
The reference to streaks is remindful of two of the
oldest in baseball The New York Giants of 1915 put
together victory strings of IT and 26 games yet managed
to finish fourth The 26game streak modern record
Curiously the 17game string compiled on the road
and the record-settng string at home.
Even casual readers of horse racing stories have be-
little tired of having nearly all the lush won
by such mllionareS the Whitneys, Vanderblts and
WdenerS Wednesdays 5000 Lassie Stakes at Arlington
didn't turn out that way The victor Cofax Maid
$4,000 yearng purchase whose buyer sold haf-nereS
for $0O because he needed the money And the who
bought that half interest in $4,000 net car
pener from Evanston Ill., who has been out of work since
last october because of eye injury
CATCHER RANDY HUNDLEY, RECENTLY signed by
the Giants to $4,000 bonus contract and assigned
the Salem a) team of the Appalachian Rookie League
given rough time in recent game against Wash.
ngtons Wythevle VaJ farm. Wythevile redhot league
leader stole bases Hundley, who given the
treatment by the fans. Whereupon Hundley offered h
glove the spectators see better basis
There takers.
Danny Pyne 49-year r-old Clerk of the Small Claims
Branch of the Municipal Court who died last week. ratec
the top of college boxers handled by the expert Eddie
LaFond of Catholic University. Pyne boxed middle
weight ght-heavyweight and heavyweight LaFond recalls
and several times fought twice in night bringing abou
change in rules. Once he scored two knockouts
card fighting in two divisions