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18 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Thurtday, August 4, 1949
SPORTS ROUNDUP
RACING
ROMANCE:
Buzfuz and Let's Dance
New York, Aug. 4 je When
looking for stories of raclr..' ro
mance consider the tale of Bui
luz and Lets Dance.
These seven-year-old geldings,
former stablemates, are now in
the twilight of their racing ca
reers, but they've already con
tributed one of the turf's most
Interesting chapters.
Neither got to the races as a
Juvenile and at the time, it
seemed they might become can
didates for the glue factory. As
untried three-year-olds, they
were privately purchased lor t
total of $3,500.
Their combined earnings to
day stand at (425,585. Bui
fuz, whioh cost 12,000, has
won 1263, J40. Lets Dance, a
11,500 bargain, boasts $102,
245. Until February of last year,
they raced for the Miami, Fla.,
Sunshine stable of Dan Chap
pell and Mose Rauzin. Then
Chappell, an attorney who once
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'99er Honored
Fred A. Williams, a Salem attorney
since 1919, has received an Invitation
to return to his Alma Mater, the University of Iowa, to be
honored in a 50th anniversary celebration planned in con
nection with the Indiana-Iowa game October 15. Williams
Is pictured here as he appeared while playing for Iowa In
1899 on the undefeated grid team of the school. He Is one of
eight surviving members of the '99 team, and was rated as an
"all-western" end In the days before All-Americans. Williams
and the seven other team members will be introduced at the
game in October and feted at a dinner.
By FRED HAYDEN
ran unsuccessfully for governor
of Florida and who now heads
the Horsemen's Benevolent and
Protective association, and Rau
zln dissolved the partnership. In
the split of the stable, Chappell
got Lets Dance and Rauzin took
Buzfuz. More recently, Joe Ros
en acquired Lets Dance.
Early in 1945, during the na
tional racing blackout caused by
the war, Chappell was scouting
around the barn area at Miami's
Hialeah park to buy a horse
Bob Robertson, who was train-
ing horses owned by the estate
of the late R. D. Patterson, spied
Chappell, called him over to his
barn and, during the ensuing
conversation, said he had a cou
pie of horses he might sell.
It sifted down to whether
Chappell wanted a frisky colt
or an unprepossessing gelding
which did not look as If he'd
even get to the races. Dan
somehow took a fancy to the
"ugly duckling" and bought
the gelding for $2,000. That
was Buzfuz. a
"The Buzzer," which Insisted
on having oranges included in
his daily fare, became a top
sprinter of the nation. He's still
going In fact, is entered today
in the $10,000 Oceanport handi
cap at Monmouth Park.
Lets Dance, while being
schooled as a two-year-old at
Belmont Park, ran into a fence
and smashed his left foreleg so
badly that veterinarians serious
ly considered having him de
stroyed. The youngster, bred by
Mrs. John D. Hertz, somehow
recovered. Before making his
racing debut as a three-year-old,
he was picked up by Chappell
from Albert Warner, the movie
man, for $1,500.
- Lets Dance went on to race
with the best and his con
quests included Santa Anita's
$50,000 San Pasqual. This sea
son he dropped down to
$10,000 claiming company but
won his last race, an allow
ance affair, only last Satur
day. Buzfuz has raced 102 times,
with 29 firsts, 27 seconds and
15 thirds. Lets Dance has been
postward 93 times and won 15
races with 14 seconds and 22
thirds.
Oldtime Boxers Cringe at
Idea of 1949 Povderpuffs
Summit, N. J., Aug. 4 (U.R) The shades of
Sullivan, Corbett, Fitxtimmoni and Jeffries
cringed today at a mystic ringside which fear
fully awaited the "world heavyweight cham
pionship" fight between Gus Lesnevich and
Ezzard Charles.
For these two are not "killer" in the ring's
accepted sense of the word. There is a valid
question os to how such pacifists ever came
within point blank range of such an honor.
The first apology for punching passion
came when Charles, a slim young man
who likes be-bop and bow ties, out
waltzed the aged Jersey Joe Walcott at
Chicago for this spurious title.
The second came os Lesnevich, a mild fam
ily man with bovine blue eyes, worked over
his sparmates in preparation for what was de
scribed as an all-out attempt to batter the
crown from Ezzard's head.
Gus just ain't mad at anybody.
You sense that at the sprawling, hill-side
camp once run by the late Madame Bey, now
known as Eshan's Training Camp, a muscle
emporium which staggers drunkenly over a
mountainside in the muggy New Jersey sunshine.
Gus was a benign man of an admitted
34, clad in yellow sports shirt and a top
heavy chef's cap cooking shish-kabob.
People milled around as if at a church
picnic and petted his two husky young
sters while his pretty blonde wife watched
with sparkling eyes.
Finally, the crowd crawled up the hot hill
side, past the cottage used os a dressing room,
to an r jtdoor ring lethargic under a canopy.
Flies buzzed ceaselessly and the sluggish spec
tators waited, mopping foreheads, while
portable radio brought in the subdued hys
teria of a baseball aame.
Then up the hill strode Gus, legs bulging
with the climb, to crawl through the ropes and
go two ridiculous rounds with a slim Negro
sparmate. Next came Bernie Reynolds, one
of the younger heavyweight hopefuls. It was
a continuous waltz with snorting sound effects,
"I didn't want to club him," Lesnevich
breathed explosively after it was over. "If
you hurt him he blows his top and tries to
kill you. Then you really have to let him
have it."
Watching was Jim Braddock, the one-time
champ known as the "Cinderella Man." He
thought Lesnevich looked good.
But his remarks were a sad commentary of
the times, an insult even to his own career,
For if Lesnevich looked "good," then the toc
sin never should have knelled to change the
Cinderella Man's pumpkin into the pinnacle
ot punching success.
The Dempsey who crushed Willard at
Toledo three decades ago was a real
champion. And even in the training
camp, they'll tell you, he was a ferocious
young tiger who would have greeted his
best friend with a vicious left hook to the
chin. He was nasty.
And so were all the great ones.
But Lesnevich, sporting a chef's cap and
kissing his children, looked like just what he
was-r-a pleasant pappy guy too night to swat a
fly. '
It might be a great fight. But the
heroes of the past can well be apprehensive!
No-No Game in
Semi-Pro Tourney
Portland, Aug. 4 vn A right-
handed youngster hurled a i
(i no-hit seven-Inning game
last night and gave Verboort a
1-0 victory over Cornelius in
the state semi-pro baseball tourney.
The game was pitched by
Dick Waivel, a Hillsboro high
graduate who pitched for the
University of Oregon freshmen
squad last spring. He had
trouble with control in the early
innings, walking three, but he
went through the last four
frames facing only three batters
in each.
Reliance System knocked out
the Portland Red Sox, 4-1, and
Dallas-Valsetz downed Gari-
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Hope Will Take a Beating
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Hollywood, Aug. .1 (IP) There's an empty saddle out at
Paramount Studio today and Bob Hope's the man who
Isn't in it.
Hope is In Hollywood -Presbyterian hospital with a
wrenched back suffered when he fell from a saddle while
making a movie.
His steed was a wooden barrel, rocked by Lucille Ball as
part of a gag sequence in the film.
The fall knocked Hope out. His doctor said the comedian
would remain abed several days.
baldi,
night.
4-3, in otjier games last
All three of the losers were
eliminated from the tourney.
The colossal statute of the sun
god at Rhodes, 105 feet high,
was levelled by an earthquake
in 224 B. C, but Its remains
endured until 656 A. D., when
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