Evening star., 1960-04-12
WIN, LOSE OR
DkAW By FRANCIS s1ANN
Blue Plate Special

ST. PETERSBURG, FLA, APRIL IA few random
notes left over :.
The day the Chicago White sox first wore their new
gray road uniforms with each players spelled
in 4inch letters would have thought that President
Bill Veeck, inventor of the gimmck sashed every
bodys salary.
The players initial reaction was that it was bush"
Later they got to joking about it. Manager AL Lopez
smiled patiently his troops let off steam 81 remember"
Al said when they came out with numbers the
uniforms. The players said the thing bush
What surprised me that it took so long for
club owners to think of numbering players"
The assorted sizes of the American League champions
with few exceptions almost ideal for the lettering of
names Because he is monstrousy broad of shoulder
Ted KluSzewski's fitted fine. So did Nellie Foxs
because he is only about third the size of Ku.
THE ONLY REAL PROBLEM we had" Travelling
Secretary Bernie snyderworth disclosed was with two
of coaches Don Gueridge Tony Cuccinello For
while it looked we'd have to their names Ver-
tically starting from neck and going far down as
necessary Fortunately the seamstress department
been quite expert"
Il remember covering football when there were no
numbers" Warren Brown of the Chicago American said.
Warren goes back little way "One of the first big games
was between Harvard and Centre The gate opened at
one end of the stadium and it seemed if 100 players
poured onto the field There wasn't single number of
course and imagine that in those days the reporting
was highly inaccurate, although there was no way of
proving it.
1--WE didn't have the benefit of spoilers who talk
over pubic address system, which helps muddy
Gays noW OF the entire horde of HarvardS and Centres
who played this day could identify only one. He was
lett-tooed drop-kicker for Harvard and today can't
even remember his name"
Suppose" somebody asked Lopez that little Fox was
named Kluszewski and that Klu named Fox? Three
MISUNDERSTANDING look ridiculous on Kluszewsks
PACK AS Tor Fox it would be impossible to spell out
Kluszewskf If you stitched up, down and around"
That's not bad question:" Lopez replied, "but
would rather that it be referred to Mr.. Veeck."
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THEN THERE WAS the final day of the St. Petersburg
Open, which George Bayer, time Redskn football
draftee, won from Jack Fleck by hoing out 65-foot
chip shot the first hole of sudden-death playoff
The best golf the final day shot by Ken Ventura
who was sizzling his morning and playing be-
fore the biggest gallery perhaps when he appeared
the final 18
1t windy day, to put it mildly but Ventura was
drilling his woods and irons into the face of near-gae
When he missed puts of 10 feet less had
to settle for tie for third place
But Ventura got tough break because man and
woman pursued the Californian when the pressure was
on, trggering their movie like mad The man
wanted Ventura in the foreground and the wanted
him in the background They scrambled to achieve this
setting at each On hole Ventura nched visiby
While putting as the expected Gatherings of the two
movie makers opened up.
Il asked them four times not to do it." Ken said
later 1T didn't do any good You wouldn't believe it,
but they are neighbors of mine"
AND THERE WAS Bill Hartack the race rider being
the NICE convival guy This strange role adopted
possibly by coincidence shortly after his agent
Chick Lang, quit Willie and denounced him as "a hate
filled man"
Hartack who never had any for racing writer's
tWho had no for him) must have spent close to l2
hours at the poker table evening morning retiring
only because he had to work horse" at Gulfsream
The next nght-eve of the Florida Derby in which he
finished second on Venetian Way Bay Ache-Hartack
vas respendenty the Derby Ball which started
ae and lasted for many hours At point Ralph War
ner sports coumnist of the Tampa Tribune and man of
known stamina, asked Hartack
Don't you ever go to bed?"
Sleep don't need" Bill replied, nor did he ever look
as If he frayed.
But on Derby Day what he did need was about four
inches to beat Baly Ache and win his fourth straight
Gulfstream classic