Evening star., 1960-07-10
WIN, LOSE OR
DNAV By FRANCIS sTANN
Of This and That

JIM SHANNON, the colorful Australian who in 1858
brought Sailors Guide to Laurel where he the famed
international disqualification writes that there's
other as good as the Sailor racing Down Under He's A.
yearod named Vaeriu owned by Sir Alan Potter chair
man of the Australian Jockey Club and recent winner of
the Randwick Centenary Invitation Stakes at 1 miles,
which is the International route grass.
Insiders report that Casey Stengel is beginning to
wonder about jim Coates the rookie pitcher with the
fabulous record Coates suspect because the Yankees
have averaged eight per game for him this
of those remarkable concdences-but he's often
been luckier than good Stengel especially mifed
when Coates got his usual eight July against
the Senators but collapsed. The Senators won, to g.
although Coates escaped the loss.
Could the airline'S representative have misunder-
stood the caller who elephoned that there bombs
the Detroit Tigers flight out of New York? Tgertown
cynics think that perhaps he actually might have said
buns" wrestling Promoter Vince Mcmahon, whose
aStar" show at Griffith Stadium last August hit for
gate of $26OOO predicts that his park extravaganza
week from tomorrow will break all D. C. box-offce
records
ONE MORE EXCERPT from the new book ("The
Long Season. authored by Relief Pitcher Jim Brosnan
of the Reds Paul Richards Speakng of the 1859 Oroes)
should get an Academy Award for best direction in dra-
mauc presentation. Any manager who win so games
with that crew is genius. If he's not the
best manager), then there isn't any beSt-just few
oeter-than-average managers But, dear God how can
he weave pennant without materia?" Baltimore went
on TO win "a games and already this Richards
kids have As games at approximately the halfway
mark
Although the new head football coach Bill Elias,
sounds like so many of his predecessors in painting
hopeful picture in the George Washington University
Alumni ReUie he osses unusual bouquet at one of the
few leftover aides to wit: THE odtmer on our staff
Ray Hanken has forgotten football than most of
us will ever know" Reader Charles L. Stout revving
the New York-Kansas City trade which landed Roger
Maris in the Yankee outheld writes that t is difficult
Tor we fans to assign dollar value to players but to
it seemed that Kansas City gave up Joe Demaestri
KentH Hod1
get Hank Bauer ($75000, Marv Throneberry ($5OO0O)
Don Larsen ($75OOO and Norm sebern ($1OOOOO. In
total Kansas City gave up $49000O to get 100000"
Gus DAmato seeks no friends and has few but give
the cruSty devil his due Before the first fight between
Floyd Patterson, his tiger and lingo JohanSson he was
asked whom the Swede reminded him of. "Pete Rade-
macher replied DAmato referring to the amateur who
faced Patterson for the title in his first pro fight lingo
faened Floyd the first time the rematch he made
Gus look good.
LIKE EDDIE AINsNGITH and Gabby Street. who won
lame by catching Walter Johnson the late Bill Kefer
will be best remembered Cleveland Aexanders
battery mate with the Philes and Cubs although Kefer
later was to manage two big league clubs
others. Mudcat Grant of the Indians, who throws
his glove the field and beats the Senator's was nick
named Mudcat by accident When he broke into pro
ball with Fargo -Moorhead in 1854 teammate Barlow
1rby thought he from Mississippi Grant is native
F1ordian.
Harry Wismer probably utterS the understatement Of
the pre-football when he says "Thereu be nc
Cleveland Browns the new American League" Wismer
who referring to the Browns of years ago. might
have added that there probably won't be team of tha
caber in the National League either THE old AAmerics
Conference failed because paradoxcay it produced the
great Cleveland team" Whiz points out Our league il
planned differently believe can sell balance
The best trade the Yankees made during hi
regime Casey Stenge says is the for Dick Hyde
the submarine reiefer Sore-armed and denoted II
Miami of the International League II wanted him." Case
admits Il wanted the Kansas City fellow last wnte
bud Daley winnngeSt of the major league pitchers)
but 1 didn't get him. I was lucky to get il
right field (Roger Maris who all set to go to Pitts
ourgh In the fall except nobody could get together
the fourth player Pittsburgh to give up for him"
Modern refrigeration in the American home ha
killed ceman jokes but in Britain the milkman remain
pretty important He the traditional gobetween mai
between houSeholderS and race bookies. Although
George Preston Marshall is opposed to a Stadium Clu
for the general public la Yankee Stadium, the Red
skins owner will have private box, lavatory and it
assumed, modest battery of telephones in the ney
District of Columbia Stadium.