Evening star., 1963-05-19

Shoemaker Spends
Busy "a Hours
By MORRIS SIEcEL

BALTIMORE May 18-Pimlco today announced
two minus show pools $3O6 Candy Spots and $2582
on Never Bend but there ready to Sympathze
for the small deficits The handle of S72 on the
nnerace Preakness card appeared ample to tide Pmco
over
Willie Shoemaker packed lot Of living in 24-hour
spread He planed in from Los Angeles at $3.50 this
morning saddled winner the fourth race, won the
Preakness four later and quickly returned TO
California last night nearly $4,000 weather..
Chateaugay's first licking of the year dropped his
average to 8OO considerably higher than the Pittsburgh
Pirates also owned by John Galbreath.
Mrs. Shoemaker greeted her husband in the winners
circle with kiss and $50 bonnet made of slken roses,
a chapeau which arrived too late to the worn at
Louisville where she obviously also expected victory.
Pimco painters didn't wait for the Official sign 10
begin painting the weather vane atop the old cmpnouse
in the coors of the winning horse The red and pacK
of Elsworths stable practically dry by the Time
Candy Spots hit the WIRE certain were the painters
of his success . Shoemaker asked If he thought his
Preakness ride would Justify critics who raped him for
the way he handled Candy Spots in the Derby shrugged
off the inquiry. II couldn't care less" ne said
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After the second Pimlco changed the condition
of the track from slow to good status chalk players
unable to agree with they watched the favorte
out of the money One loser, after dropping five
straight races, called "Old Hilltop" non-sectarian race
track They bury everybody alive here" he moaned
T. A. Grisso's freight train the Shoo-in winner Of
the 18th annual Powder Puff Derby and there was an
immediate inquiry not about the race but about the
marital status of Jockey Doris Riley who incidentally
grabbed the non-betting for the third straight
year.
The horse Preakness for whom the race was named,
was shot by his owner in fit of anger. There Is no
danger of Candy Spots inherting the same fate.
Ellsworth and Msh Tenney will try their luck with him
next in the Jersey Stakes and then the Belmont. -.
The accomplished Baltimore Colts Band, composed
of only 26 musicians, performed the pre-race muslcal
ceremonies. Remembering the band had norman
complement of no. observer guessed the missing
members had detected to New York to join Weeb Ewbank
with the Jets "As players not musicians" the cynic
added. =.
NEVER WILL NOTRE DAME have better opportunity
to claim the college football championship OF California
than this year. The Irish play Southern CAL UCLA anC
Stanford When Joe Kuharich, NFL aide in charge oi
officials decides there has been officiating hi
will not be making judgment from hearsay. Kuharct
has made arrangements to have films Of every game
flown into league headquarters for Tuesday viewing
Unless he receives unlikely offer to PITCH Pete Burn
side will junk baseball to pursue his offSeaSon job o.
selling investments and securities.
In his first time bat since last September Rogec
Alvarez the first baSeman who got away from the Sen
ators, slammed pinch grand slammer for San Diego
Alvarez, detained in Cuba, reported weighing 200
a new breakdown, the MI has ordered TV cameras no
to focus dugouts "any other scenes of vgarity
during ball game.
OUTFIELDER JOE HICKS released by the Senators
is regarded Nets future" example Of how hare
pressed the Yorkers for talent Hicks g. plays
for Buffalo a Nets farm . . The domed stadium benI
built for the Colt ASS will be 207 feet high and 81 def
Mickey Mantle to hit that hgh," challenges Judg
Roy Hofheinz, Colts president
Kip Edwards has been relieved of his almost perma
nent duties house committee chairman of the Touch
down Club. He will head the tbs annual awards Dime
in January Ralph Guglielmi former Redskins quarter
back joined insurances mion-dollar club with one sail
last week. Goog who resides in Washington wrote ST..
million policy for client unknown but recommended, II
him. . Kid Gavilan, still in Cuba, is broke Tn
former welterweight champion, enemy of Castrosm,
working for Jehovah's Witnesses.