Evening star., 1960-01-31
WIN, LOSE OR
DkAW By FRANCIS sTANN
OF This and That


tonal Football League expansonSts, but the Redskin
owner did so only because he licked anyway and he
felt united front would look better Congressional
antitrust Subcommittee-f and when. Intimates say
Marshall is genuinely fearful that moving into Dallas and
Minneapolis will stir up the hornets the Hill.
Vice President Gabe Paul of the Cincinnati Redlegs
was charged with using Terry Brennan for publicity
purposes year ago, when he hired dismissed Nore
Dame coach to handle his players physical conditioning
in training camp. But Paul has engaged the little
known Mick Connolly former Xavier football coach, to
do the same job next month
Larry Sherry, brilliant young relief pitcher of the
champion Dodgers, remembers what happened to Bob
Turley of the Yankees last year after weghty tour of
the winter banquet circuit Result Sherry always eats
before banquets then sips black coffee the guestsof
honor tables. Braves Field in Boston, where Babe
Ruth slammed his 714th and final rum finally is
being razed. The Dick Lynch who played a part in
the CBS-TV Fifth Column" show recently the former
Redskin who now is the Giants crack defensive hafback
THE LAVISH ICE CAPADEs performances at Uline
Arena recall the shows first appearance in Washington 10
ago when the late Raoul Leat general manager of
U1nes, barely got the arena completed in time for the
opening The Ice Capades started out the year before
l90on $4,000 investment was S84 900 in the red
after two months, although strong rally eventually
enabled Producer John H. Harris realize net profit
OF Sl Today the show said to travel with $3.50 boo
IN equipment, has 50000 investment in costumes and
production designing, and has payroll which, to quote
Joe Holman, the publicist, sounds like Government
budget"
JACK DAVIS, former Maryland nneman who injured
In training for the Redskins and underwent surgery
his knee has complaints Mr Marshall treated me
magnfcently Davis reports. Paid in full for the
season and couldn't have been I'll stick next time
Henry Hank, hot Detroit middleweght who stopped
the nationally ranked ght-heavy Jesse Bowdry for the
second time on TV last Wednesday, is puncher How
ever he'll have to learn to keep his left hand up With
it dangling below his waist cutie is going decapi
tate him with right hand
The Sporting News, which specialzes in baseball but
reports football and basketball extensively season. has
discovered bowling Doesn't Gene Conley debunk the
popular notion that basketball baseball don't mix?
The 6foot8 pound Cecs STAR who also pitches for
the PhlieS says he is playing roundbal again because
his two best pitcher 1884 and 1850 came after
seasons in pro basketball Il could sit around home and
get fat" Gene comments "but I'd rather be with the
Celtics"
BILL WERBER, new president of the Home Plate
Club, wants to make it clear that new members are
welcome and eligibility is merely matter of liking
ball. The Home Plate Club is wholly charitable in its
objective which to promote maintain continuing
interest in baseball at all leves-boh amateur and pro-
fesSional," Werber writes. THE club is in excellent
financial condition but interested acquiring new
members"
Jack Kramer, who brings his pro tennis troupe to
Uline Arena February 112 regards Washington as one
of the best cities in the country for the alaed racket
swngers. The best ourthquarter in pro football
las well as the best team period the Baltimore Colts
AS in 1853 the Colts of SO poured it their rivals in the
final Is minutes scoring 142 points As through 2 league
games InS Is IN contrast to the SIS points they scored
in the first periods
There only two 7-foot high jumpers in this
country-John Thomas and Charlie Dumas-but It.
Bob Gardner of the Quanco Marines expects to make
threesome before the out and perhaps next
Saturday in the Boston A. A. Games Gardner who jumped
81 in the Met AAU championships in New York but whose
personal high is 610 achieved in Africa last summer
thinks that shedding IS pounds (hes down to 1901 will
help him turn the trick
ALTHOUGH ENOS SLAUGHTER had spent 18 years
In the big leagues and has signed playermanager Of
Houston in the American Association for $780, the old
gaffer says I'm back in the minors but you can
count on it, I'll be back in the majors"
Fred (BuD Leitzey of Silver Spring, Md, of the
first players to call signals from line position has been
named by the Clemson Alumni magazine to the l-tme
Tiger team Leitzey, a chemical engineer at the
Navys Bureau of Yards and Docks began calling signals
from guard and center for Columbia Is. c. High and
continued to do it at Clemson. Il loud enough to
be heard" LeitZey explains, deprecatngly.
When Ernie Banks hits his fourth homer of the go
season. which should be early he will the Chicago
CUBS alI-time homer king. Gabby Hartnett now holds
the club record with lifetime total of 231.
Casey Stengel, who criticizes his Yankees their
thrd-pace finish doesn't absove himself Amy time you
nlSh thrd Stengel pontcated you got to blame some
part OF IL on the manager should have seen To it that
there was more spirit the club My ined especially
had no life The players had the ability but they looked
Snaky They didn't haye take-charge out there"