Evening star., 1962-09-11
The Old WAY
Is Still Best
By MORRIS sIEcEL

WITH THE REDSKINS and the colleges on the launch
ing pad Sonny Lson Floyd Patterson around the cor
ner and the World Series less than three weeks away
fellow would out of tune he didn't seek the poop on
how the sports forum feels about the heavy, imminent
calendar.
Normally such information is close the nearest
telephone But times have changed Attorney General
Kennedy and his Justice Department vgilantes have
thrown up too many roadbocks Only few Of the old
guard are willing the risk The handful Of holdoutS
is almost reduced to playing it by ear.
Where they got the last second scuttebut from
Minneapolis Davenport Chicago Cincinnati or wherever
the massive bran-poong centers felt safe they are now
pretty much ON their With the bgtme operators
wheeling instead Of dealing, the bootleg bookes have
what's left of the market to themselves
%Sh
y EVEN THEY ARE HARD to come by. Without con-
necton you've got chance Their prices are way out Of
line but you want to play They've got the only
game in town Instead of floating games they've got
floating telephone numbers Any day It's % against
getting this new breed on the first try However to the
dedicated information to the truth searcher there's
always another way
Yesterday this department took the other road 1t only
made him pine the old way much easier more direct
and with certain degree Of satisfaction unobtainabe from
the new avenue SoothSayers palm readers and carvoy
ants 1t was wasted effort The time would have been
much better spent with fortune cookies.
Unlike the clandeStine hideout of their gambling coun
terpart the palm readers caivoyants and soohsayers
operate in the open with listed phone numbers and IL
cense the D. c. government With all this going or
them plus relatively non-competitive field they still
aren't much help.
SPORTS is A FOREIGN language to them Take
Madame r. of Tenth street NV. She's been IN business
here for q years according her ads yet she never heard
Of the Redskins how could she have the slightest IDEA
how they might do against the Dallas Cowboys?
s "RedskinsP 4. q. Football? Cowboys2 -. FghtsP
. Senators2" she asked "You you got the right
NUMBER Like told you, got no legitimate interest
In sports. haven't had anyone with that problem
~ nrOh1p 1pYoSh
and wife, that kind Of thing but sports9 Who told you
to call me?"
It was obvious she chancey dame certainly not
as prediction prone the advertisement led one to be-
neve Names dates and facts about business love tells
whom and when you will marry satisfaction guaran-
teed" It was hard to imagine willing to go out
on a matrimonial limb, only to clam up when asked
simple question with the predicase answer Of how the
Redskins might make out.
so MUCH FOR MADEAEE R. The Yellow Pages also
suggested Madame F. gifted psychic palmst carvoy-
ant different from all others. Reads and advises on
business love- luck health family affairs past and present.
future"
This had to be our gal Her commercial left no doubt
but what she the utility player in her league She too
was stinker Listen she growled when the mission was
presented what am supposed to know about the Sena
tors? What know keep to myself This all confiden-
tiaI. Besides, I'm ready to have a reading In a Few
minutes and don't have much time to talk now Sonny
Lison? Why what's his problem? First who Is he ana
what does he do? Fighter you say? oonC KNOW ngCeIS
all my clients nice people, fighters gotta go with
a reading now"
1t suggested to Madame R. that despite her con-
fessed ignorance sports she might take chance and
make guess the outcome of the World Series the Dig
fight the Redskins games etc. "Guess?" she rebeed Il
don't guess have my of determining these prob
lens And don't know the first thing about guessing
This is not guess work business But wish you lot of
success anyhow"
THE LAST STOP WAS Madame NJ, of street NV
She had what all the others had in the soohsayng busi
ness plus being medium aStrologer spirit enoer
. and Egyptian sand dvinationS" This had to be the
big leagues.
Madame NJ the voice said, out. 1t quickly became
evident that whoever it answering the phone was no
apprentice fortune teller When will she be in? wouldn't
even guess"
This was the end of that particular road call to an
unlicensed practitioner produced the results pronto. He
sees the Redskins 3pont favorites over Dallas Sun
day the Yankees lilo Dodgers in the World Series
and Iiston remains the rs pick over Patterson.
I You can agree disagree with his readings He'll
fade YOU either way From love, luck health, marriage
family affairs etc." he knows nothing Who bets EN-?