Evening star., 1961-01-01
WIN, LOSE or
DRAW ), FRANCE, ,rAuu
Of This And That

REX BOWEN, CHIEF SCOUT Of the Pittsburgh Pirates
and visitor to town. brings glad dngs the Senator'S
R C. Stevens" he declares will be the best defensive
hrst baseman in the American League At bat he's
wild swnger but he'll hit minimum of is home runs in
any company" Stevens, who slammed 81 homers the
Pacific Coast League to Washington in the December
10 deal that sent Bobby Shantz to the Pirates
No matter how Mssouris 1860 season is listed-1o-o
or 9-1-ts not precisely accurate The Tigers who are
7point favoriteS Navy in tomorrows Orange Bowl
won nine straight but lost to Kansas in the finale, 237
But because Kansas used ineligible player the NCAA
and the Big Eight Faculty Committee declared Missouri
the winner by the 10 forfeit Hence the Tigers
have been listed both the only major bowl team with
perfect" record and once beaten squad.
Despite sharp criticism from Swedish writer's when
he brought his family and Brgit Lundgren to the United
States for his first two Floyd Patterson fights Ingamar
Johansson insists the girl friend family will accompany
him again for the rubber match.
so TOUCHY ARE the rival cities Minneapolis and
ST. Paul. that President Cal Grifth is compromising at
every turn. Not only did he his Senators the
Minnesota Twins, but he has asked the Senators
when they invade next to split their hotel business
The Senators will accede stopping twice in Minneapolis
and once in st. Paul.
Il Going into yesterdays seth East-west Shrine game
Stanford had supplied the most players 5S with Minne-
sofa and Notre Dame next with So EACH Mickey Vernon
the only Washington player in history to win two American
League batting titles (seven apart credited the
late iris Speaker for the second championship. On
Speakers recommendation ne used lighter bat along
Although he remains unlicensed to manage Floyd
Patterson; that monumental bore, Gus DAmato back
in the news Gus is threatening to pull out OF the Johans-
son hgh scheduled for March IS at Miami Beach because
Feature Sports 1nc won't meet his demands for training
camp expenses. What expenses? Floyd always trains
like Trappist The tab for the Swede with his golf and
cha-cha dancing comes higher.
WHO SAYS BALLPLAYERs aren't scarce? Joe De-
Maestri age 80 and 222 hitter with only two RBI last
season, given $4,000 salary increase when he became
the first Yankee to sign for 1851 Oddly both Of the
batted in by DeMaeStr ball games.
Joe Lapchick, the old Celtic who coaches St. Johns
rates Ohio States No. l ranking roundban team the
greatest he's ever in college II used to think San
Francisco with Bill Russell and K. c. Jones' was the
greatest says Lapcck who also puts the Buckeyes above
Seton Hall with Walter Dukes DePaul with George Man
Kentucky with Alex Groza and Ralph Beard and the
Original Cetcs themselves
Both Lapchick and Richie Regan, Seton Hall coach,
consider Ohio States Jerry Lucas better player right
now than wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors
and superior to Mikan at comparable stage in college,
sd rather have Lucas than Chamberlain on my team"
Lapchick declares HE can do more things and do them
better"
THERE MUST BE ONLY so much money for betting
at Maryland tracks and the daily wagering averages for
the three mile ovas Pmlco, Laurel and Bowie would
seem to it Pimico reports that SAL $40 was bet
last year. average Of s88 daily Close behind is
Laures daily average of and Bowies Of
Bill Heinz, writing in the Saturday Evening Post Of
the impending demolition Of Stillmans gym on Eighth
avenue New York City, remarks that whereas $50 fighters
once used the arnca palace, only SO train there now
Redskin Coach Bill McPeak, explaining why Bill Kiner
OF UCLA not No. draft choice by any National
Football League team, put it this way "He passes but
net well enough for the He runs but and
fast enough Klmer does many things but this is the
era Of the specialist" 2
Racing bigwigs are worried about the scarcity Of
American born jockeys, who blame school regulations
labor and insurance laws dscouraging tendencies by the
Jockeys Guild and the attitude of the youngsters them
selves Within few rs per cent OF our jockeys
will be boys from the Latin American countries" Jimmy
Jones' trainer Of. Calumet predicts Those fellows are
ambitious and hungry They make the sacrifices necessary
to become great"