Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-18

Senators Win
While Losing
By MORRIS SIEGEL

THE SENATORS, IT COMES TO LIGHT, have much
operation than critics have willing
cede They not win games but they make
even while losing This explain why they mired
in 10th place 28l2 games behind the Yankees who OPP
crate the implauSibe theory that artistic victory is
accompanied by financial success.
Those Yankees must be fools Look how the Senators
did the other day They playing Kansas City which
turned be their only mistake of the day They
bopped by the Athletics for the 18th straight time But
when they tally up the final cost of the damage inflicted
BY the AS they will be pleasantly surprised to learn the
day not total loss except in the standings.
Here at home that same evening the Senators yielded
their S24 million paypen at D. c. Stadium to the Redskins
who invited the Colts from Baltimore for serum.
More than $4,000 patriots took advantage of the invita-
on Under terms OF the lease the Senators have with their
Amoy Board landlords they share in all concessions sold
at the D. C. Stadium.
THEIR BITE is 10 PER CENT They aren't going to
get rich off $500 $4,000 they'll
of the concession take for the Redskins Colts game but
they aren't complaining The only thing they did to
it to absent themselves from the city There
claque which would like to make this arrangement bit
more permanent.
Rather than waste time quibblng petty items
such who the right to open what door and what
color lime should go gridron, the Senators should
encourage participation at the stadium other than
their When they tote up the books for the years
operation they might find their obligations to wrestling
and football will be almost great as to their fol-
lowing.
There might be easier ways to pick up little walking
around money other than simply leaving town, but for
the moment it the Senators ought to be satisfied
with their unique gmnick 1t might not be profitable
ferizing but it's certainly safer Billy Sol Estes is
learning.
THERE ARE MANY BENEFICIARIEs of the financial
bonanza arising from the exhibition The Armory Board
for instance will get around $4,000 in rent from the gate
of about $145O This too is not much toward the $780,
900 annual interest payment the gorgeous athletic
Penagon in Southeast but at least will help pay to
hoUo
used to the field just before Thursday evenings
The tarpaulin, supposedly the best that taxpayers
money buy is like another singular feature of
lot-he jail Both functional but in the screweSt sort
of way The tarp for example performs excelenty Ex
cept when it rains The motors, those parts which
mysteriously develop allergy whenever nclement
weather sets in, have been shipped to Wisconsin for
pairs BY the time is rendered ranworthy the tarp
might develop an-snow complex
The lookup in the stadium is being used but not
for what nendedfo lodging rowdieS such as the
youngsters who bolt out of stands to practice coountry
techniqueS in the course of ball game Currently the
pokey serves dressing for stadium guards. At
least it's being used for something That's than
be said of the $15000 private elevator and box designed
for use by the President
* THE SPONSORING ALAIAS TEMPLE SHRINE natu-
rally the big winner 1t should be- 1t took the biggest
risk guaranteeing $4,000 to the two teams plus adj
ditiona $4,000 for promoonal At the moment
the ShrinerS assured of than 100000 as their
end undoubtedly the biggest haul ever made for charity
out of sports event in Washington
Except for the Redskins, who are accustomed to it
by now the only other beating involved in the show
to the field Graummans Chinese Theater in Hollywood,
which thrives collecting footprints of stars doesn't
have enough real its premises to house the i'm
prints made the soggy turf at the stadium.
The next time he tries to scoop up ground ball In
rghtfield Chuck Hinton might find first will be
Sary to skirt dvot left by Bobby Mitchell or crater
made by Norman Snead pratfall. Dutch Bergman the
stadiumS resident manager, his construction bat
taons already have started the work of restoring the
premises the conditions that existed before
trampled on by the football pachyderms.
If Dutch really had the fortunes of the Senators at
heart would just it is Certainly wouldn't
affect the Senators play too much 1t might make it
tougher for the other clubs to beat Mickey Vernon gang
If it did Bergman might become beated candidate
the man who did improve ball club General @.
Notwithstanding