Evening star., 1963-01-20

Yunks the Losers
In Skowron Swap?
BY MORRIS SIEGEL

OF ALL THINGS: A 70-I> t tank stocked with Irish
trout the eye-catchng exhibit Of the Sportsmens show
in Boston Visitors are permitted to keep the fish
they catch When the show to New York manage
ment presumably will stock the tank there with psca
toria delicacy equally suitable to the Bronx clientele
gefilte fish.
Dodgers Manager Walter Aston thinks his club
pulled fast the Yankees when they traded
Stan Williams for Moose Skowron. williams may have
trouble. He doesn't throw hard he used to-"
Aston told reporters at the recent Cincinnati Baseball
Writers dinner.
Banton Collier Paul Browns successor had choice
except to retain his predecessors assistants The Browns
have retirement and profit sharing plan for coaches
and to have dismissed them would have cost manage
ment pretty penny
PITCHER RONNIE KLINE yesterday became the first
candidate for 1868 comebacko the-year honors After
previously stating he would pitch in Japan this year. he
showed up in Detroit and signed contract with the Tigers
convicted basketball fixer, out bond awaiting
sentence in New York. recently popped off to friends that
he had secret information about hanky panky in pro
football. His story checked by police and the NFL,
turned out to be phoney.
When the Boston Patriots play in their home
In Fenway Park next they will be running up hill
SO per cent Of the time The Red sox paypen slopes off
IL inches from second base to home plate Key in
the shift of the Patriots games Fenway incidentally,
was Dom DMaggo, former Red sox centerfielder, who
owns stock in the Patriots.
WHEN GEN PETE QUESADA hired George selkirk as
general manager of the Senators two months ago, he
announced at the time that Sekk would have the added
responsibilities Of supervising press relations EverybodyS
but the generals, of course
While there's big ruckus being raised football
players owning saloons and consortng with gamblers
four members of the Dodgers delightng night club
goers with their act in Las Vegas the gambling capital
Of the United States. Don Drysdae Maury Wills Tommy
Davis and Duke Snder appearing the Desert Inn
without breath of scandal.
Hoyt Wilhelm wasn't kidding when he said he was
delighted with the trade which sent him from Baltimore
to Chicago Two days before the DEAL wilhelm signed
$4,000 contract with the Orioles, but the White Sox
ripped 1t up and gave him 81 500 raise Immediately
QUARTERBACK BOBBY LAYNE who has been advised
by Buddy Parker his coach and friend end his 5year
pro football career has intention of doing it. If he
can't become payer-coach for the Seelers Layne will
ask for his release and hopes to join the Dallas Cowboys
in that capacity.
Vincent X F1aherty former columnst for the defunct
Los Angeles Examiner will be the guest at brunch today of
Bob Rodenburg former Of the defunct A-America
Conference Baltimore Colts Flaherty Rodenburg are
former staff members of the Washington Times-Herad
also defunct.
- In recent address at a South Carolina football
banquet Morris Frank the Houston humorist advised
hot-sho high school player mot to accept Ford from
Clemson or Chevy from Duke. You'd look better in
Thunderbird from Baylor" Frank said.
WHEN DANNY REEVES outbid Gilman Ed Pauley bv
81 million for ownership of the Los Angeles Rams the
result probably surprise to Pauey The week
OelOIe Hldue OF million Tor oil rights
off California but lost out to Texaco which bid $23 million
The late Jim Tatum was firm believer in unlimited
substitution and decred those who charged that legs
lated against the smaller schools. That's gooy talk"
Tatum answered mo rule for example going to make
Davidson College, Elon any small school have better
or worse football The little schools will remain little and
the big ones will remain big"
The odds against double eagle according to Golf
Digest are l550000-o-l And the odds are equally as
high that the magazine can't explain how determined
those odds.
When Bobby Kennedy made his court room debut by
arguing case before the Supreme Court 1t remindul
OF another spectacular beginning several years ago. Pete
Rademacher in his first professional fist fight met Floyd
Patterson for the heavyweight Championship.