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Southern Oregon News Review. Thursday, June 9. 1949 M C lIM til AS BABY-SITTERS, FOOTBALL PLAYERS JOE MAHONEY MJ Gridders, Says Lou Little, Make Good Sitters . . . WOULD MAKE JUNIOR STAY IN LINE By H. I. PHILLIPS So there. Junior! Behave your self while momsy and popsy are at Lou Little, famous Columbia foot the theater tonight or else develop ball coach, has appealed for Jobs some fast off-tackle plays. for football players as baby sitters. " I t is no gag.” he says. “ I w ill Reactions to football players as personally guarantee that any of m y players w ill prove 100 per cent baby sitters have been varied. At firs t thought, many parents had dif- dependable.” GRIDDERS ARE SITTERS SHUT-IN WAKED to a day of darkness and cold rain, I said, "Would that the hours were paSt and the day gone.” The wet boughs in the wild wind lashed the pane, The flowers were sodden splotches upon the lawn. "Would that the night were here and the hours through!” Restless, my heart cried out, and then there came 'j A sudden shaft of sun and a Stain of blue, Catching the curtained darkness like a flame. 1 And there was firelight dancing upon the hearth; There was a small book weighted with golden lore; A song rode in on the wind-waves of the earth; A neighbor breasted the Storm to reach my door. A beloved voire came to me over the wire, And there was a letrer from many a mile away. Shut-in? My heart was ashamed of its desire; It would have missed so much had it missed today. S ficulty associating "Rock • a • bye Baby” and "Sleep, Pretty One. Sleep" w ith "Block that k ic k !" and " H it that line h a rd !" They found it hard to think of a husky fullback as the best person to handle kids who made up their own rules as the evening went along. • - It did not seem to mother that when she asked. "I»o you think the baby is all right?" she would find comfort In father's answer. "Yes. my dear. Remember that our baby sitter for tonight booted the longest punt In the 1948 sea son!" easy with a football star as a baby sitter. Even in a home where the kiddies are sure to get rambunc tious a crack gridiron man can de tect the signals, sense the trick plays and stop the formations. Un less. of course, he is in one of those homes where there are so many children they use the double platoon system. • • • Why Fans Go Mad These days in the video belts where baseball games and horse races are broadcast the same after noon are proving pretty hectic to sports fans. Trying to follow both is doing the American nervous system no good. We found ourself shouting. "Slide ya big b u m !" at a horse the other day and yelling, "Stop pullin' his head o ff." at a ballplayer. But on more sober reflection most people decided that, children being the problems they are when mom and pop are out. it might be reas suring to know that they are in It is all quite confusing. To see the hands of a baby sitter coached in a rugged school and with a good both sports, a video addict has to record for victory, on fields wet or be pretty fast on the switches. In a stirring ball game it is quite a dry. trick tuning out at the proper mo Kids are quick to recognize au ment to catch the horses all set in thority. They know when they are I the starting gate. And in an espe- up against heavy odds. In the man j cially important horse race split- ner and actions of a university grid j second Judgment is necessary in star, they sense power, speed, de deciding when to tun« out of the termination and the old “ do or die" horse oval and into the ball park. • spirit. • — He liked a horse on which Arcaro was announced as the jockey. "A r- Few children will try to sit caro!” he exclaimed. "That’ s poor up until midnight listening to judgment. They pitched him yes the radio If the baby sitter Is terday." all-American material. • . • Then while the race track an Baby is not going to whip out the airgun around 9:30 and take nouncer was chatting on generali some pot shots at the old woman ties. Elmer dove back into the base across the courtyard, knowing that ball channel. The home team had a great broken field runner is on a man on second, one out and a big hitter up. It added to his pulse beat watch. and general confusion. "Come o n !" No kid is going to howl for a he yelled, “ Don’ t go wide on the cooky if it can see in the eyes of turns. Ya can't lose at the weights!" • I the baby sitter the never-yield-an- Back to the ponies he switched, i inch sp irit of a football man around ! whose end no opponent made any just in time. The horses broke as one. Elm er liked something called progress in two seasons. Mike's Pride. "A tta baby,” he All in all, parents should feel cried, "You got your stuff today!" The F ic tio n By NO REGRETS Richard H. Wilkinson Corner IRBY FOUND the g irl seated on an upturned box behind the sta bles crying. He hesitated, feeling awkward, then said: K BY IN EZ GERHARD Y HOWARD, at 31, is at the top “ Hello. Anything wrong?” in his second career. Four She looked up quickly, apprais years ago he was a successful ac tor; he played the lead in “ Storm ingly. “ No, please go away.” Operation" on Broadway. Now a Instead, K irby w rite r and producer of radio shows squatted on his —" M / Friend Irm a ," “ Life with h e e ls . "You L u ig i," and a new one, “ The P ri must have lost vate Lives of Eddie and Anne” — some money on he is also an associate director, pro that last race. ducer and w riter of motion pic tures. "M y Friend Irm a ” is his Black Fox fooled every one by not firs t one. "M arie Wilson steals the coming in. I lost too.” show,” he assured me; but a mo- “ I suppose I ’m a baby to cry. but I couldn’t help it. I —we— j father and I staked everything on Black Fox. Then that terrible I ’m- a-Runnin’ , who nobody thought had a chance, had to win.” C She hesitated, dabbing at her | eyes. He seemed like a nice young ; man. And she did so want com pany and to talk . . . He discovered her name was Polly Hayden. The next day he called at her house and met her father, a jolly faced old gentleman with white walrus moustaches. “ We really shouldn’t feel so badly,” Polly told her father after the introductions were over. “ K irby lost a lot more than we and he CY HOWARD lent later, "John Lund is wonder- isn’t complaining at all.” il; steals the show." He said the That night Polly and K irby had ime of Dean M artin and Jerry dinner at a little inn out on the ewis—but didn’t mention that he Tam iam i trail. lays the voice of “ Joe,” heard He knew she was wondering when ily on the phone. CBS and Para- and how he was going to pay his lount are lucky to have him under racing debts, and where he was m tract. going to get the money to establish himself in the law business. You With M-G-M shooting sequences just can’t hang out a shingle in fo r "Adam ’s Rib” all around New York pretty girls wearing dark M iam i and expect business at once. But he didn’t otter the inform a glasses learned to avoid crowds; the interested spectators suspected tion. The next day he hired an office them of being movie actresses. on Flagler street, then called up Judy Holliday, one of the principals, Col. Stratton and asked that racing kept right on in her play. "Born enthusiast to meet him at Hialeah. “ Colonel,” he said over a sand Yesterday," during the shooting. Tom Ewell, just through with a wich and coffee an hour later, “ I ’m going to take you up on the offer play, is now back in Hollywood. you made me for I ’m-a-Runnin’. He's yours for $50,000." Another Metro picture, the musical "On the Town,” has The colonel stared, "Now been shooting In New York. All wait a minute, Kirby. Has the six principals—G e n e Kelly, horse died or broken a leg or Frank Sinatra, Jules Munshln, something?" Ann Miller, Vera-Ellen and Bet "Nothing of the sort," K irby ty Garrett, worked two days at laughed. " I ’ m quitting racing for the Brooklyn navy yard. good. I t ’ s no business for an ener getic young lawyer to be wasting Cast in a m inor role in "R iding his time a t I hired an office this H igh," Dorothy Barrett sang a m orning." song for members of the cast dur They went out to the stables and ing a break; Director Frank Capra heard her and chose her to sing looked at I'm-a-Runnin’. The colonel with Bing. She has appeared In couldn’ t understand it, but he wrote several Broadway productions and his check for $50,000 and the papers was vocalist for Vaughn Monroe’ s were passed. Conscious of a queer band fo r six months before entering sensation in the p it of his stomach, film s. Her next step up is a fea K irb y headed back for the stables tured role in "Copper Canyon," for a last farewell. Outside I ’m-a- Runnin’s stall he stopped dead still Technicolor western. at sight of Polly Hayden talking with his stable boy. The good loser. The man who H can lose everything, who w ill have have! Kirby, you shouldn't! You'll never be able—I mean, you love horses. Any one can see that. You loved I ’m-a- Runnin'. ’’ to spend the rest of his life paying his racing debts and still smile! Oh, what a fool I’ve been!” "W ait a minute! L iste n !" He caught at her arm but she jerked away. He followed her out to her car. “ You’ve got to listen." he said desperately, getting in beside her. “ I only did it because I thought it would make you feel better. And it worked. I meant it when I said I was through w ith racing. I ’ve sold I ’m-a-Runnin’ to Colonel Strat ton. Look!” He held out the bill of sale and the check. She stared at him round-eyed, “ Not half as much as I love you," he told her soberly. He put his arm around her. "You believe that, don’t you? You must believe it.” "D arling, of course I do. And— I am glad that you're going to be a respectable lawyer, only—only—" "Only what?” “ Well, sometime, after we've been respectable for a good long while, we'll buy another horse, won’t we? A horse as great as I ’ m-a-Runnin’ ? Because — we both love horses, don't we?” "We do,” Kirby agreed Joyfully ER EYES blazed at him. "So! LAST WEEK'S SSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. A pen 5. Movable part of a table top 9 .A circle of lig h t 10. Odd (Scot.) 11. Capital (F r.) 12. Corner 14. Indefinite article 15. Over (poet.) 17. The eye: in symbolism 18. Frozen water 20. Evening parties 23. Close by 25. Metallic rock 26. Music note 27. Fraudulent schemes (slang) 30. Close to 32. G irl’s nickname 33. True 36. Pennies 39. Present time 40. High, craggy hill 41. Sweet potato 43. E x ist 44. Cut 47. An ungulate DOWN 1. Opportunity 2. Rowing implement 3. Potpourri 4. A ttitu d i nizes 5. Larva of eye-thread- worm 19. Organ of hearing 21. Anger 22. Soaks flax 24 Grate 28. H int 29. Source of light 30. Divisions of plays 31. Decorated, as leather 34 Red- breasted birds 35. Pitcher 37. Conceit 38. Glossy surfaced silk fabric 6. Sea eagle 7. Dispute 8. Waver 11. Anguish 13. Relieve 16. Breeding place of colony of rooks % 1 ANSWER 2 J 4 ; //// 50. Metal Palestinian, Ponder or Capot? By GRANTLAND RICE. What About the Belmont? heard no one discussing cither the Kentucky Derby or the Preakness. The flow of racing conversation turned in the general direction of the Belmont, to be run June 11 over the mile-and-a-half test, the real test for the three-year- old. There were three names t h a t led most of the com ment — P o n d er , Capot -and Pales- „ „ u tinian. The triple Grantland Rice crQwn fQr , 949 7 »1 >4 IF 2« zo 22 JZZz 24 25 Z» b Z/Vy 1 zs ¿7 to 4l 49 i ¿1 PUZZLE NO. 2 90 52 w < 51. Lairs 52. Snares 41 47 46 44 19 19 40 M M 17 »* /S /Y 29 tz 4* Y á 48 M ore Utimes I Pi,n Une A day or two ago we ran Into Ralph Kerchcval. now In charge of Alfred Vanderbilt's racing farm. How many remember that more than 10 years ago Kcrcheval was one of the greatest kickers college football ever knew? Many well- known pro coaches have tangled In arguments as to whether Kerchcval “or Ken Strong was the greater all- around kicker. Shipwreck Kelly, another Kentuckian, was always a Kcrcheval booster. Ralph had full early faith in Vanderbilt’ s Loser WcA-per, winner recently of the Metropolitan. "Loser Weeper has improved as much as any horse I know," Kerchcval said before that race. As far as racing goes, Sammy Renick has gone out for the ver satility record, Sammy started as a rider—one of the best. Then he began as a racing owner and now is involved in the television section, where he is one of the season’s video hits. "No,” Sam said recently, "I'v e never tried training I may take a shot at that later." • • • The one who has tried the tough est combination is Ellsworth Vines, who is battling earnestly to make as good a living out of golf as he did out of tennis. Vines has played a lot of fine golf, but he has never been the champion he used to be at tennis. G regory A SHAVING AID /z 7 / >1 14 can be a heavy teal unleaa the race la slowly run. Palestinian hus shown both speed and stamina in his lust thrtie races —the Wood, the Derby and the Preakness. His record is 2-3-2. be ing extremely close to winning on two occasions. Ponder's most re cent marks are 1-5. Capot’ * last three are 3-2-1. Palestinian, like Capot and Pon der, is also an improving horse. Palestinian has had enough speed to run with anybody. He has been ’coming on, cutting away ground, in his last three big races. Capot had to fight bravely and desperate ly to keep his head lead at Pimlico and 1 don’t think an extra 16th of a mile would have bothered Pales tinian in the slightest. He is both fust and strong. The Belmont w ill huve all this— plus Sun Buhram, Noble Impulse und other*. Old Rockport? Rocky seems to be slipping Instead of get ting better. He hasn't had it since he left California, although a* able a trainer as Ben Jones still be lieves he hasn't run hi* race. B y T o m 8 »1 II „ now dust and dreams, or such things as dust and dreams are made of. With Ponder in charge of the Derby and Capot on top in the Preakness. It would be no unfair turn of fortune's wheel to see Palestinian win the Belmont, which he m ight do. The Bicber-Jacobs horse was finishing close up and strongly in both the Derby and the Preakness and no one can say that Belmont's longer race w ill hurt him a bit. Before the Preakness I hap pened to run across Warren Wright, the Baron of Calumet. "The Preakness distance may have been too short for Pon der," he said. "But I honestly think Ponder should win the Belmont. The longer the dis tance, the better Ponder Itkea it. He comes from far back, 20 lengths or more, and he needs running distance to make up this ground.” Parnell Ben Jones offered no prediction but he admitted that the longer the race the better Ponder would like it—even up to two miles. No one can question the fact that Ponder can handle the route. What about Capot? John Gaver turned in a fine job of having Capot In per fect shape for both the Derby and the Preakness. When a horse breaks a track record, running against the time set by such horses as Whirl- away, Count Fleet and Citation, he must be moving in a hurry. Capot was leading at the mile and three-sixteenths In both the Derby and the Preakness. He had the continued speed of the field. But what about a mile and a half? This Is something else again. That extra quarter 42. Female horse 45. Receptacle 46. 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