Southern Oregon News Review. Thursday, June 9. 1949
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AS BABY-SITTERS, FOOTBALL PLAYERS
JOE
MAHONEY
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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spirit.
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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.
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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:
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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.”
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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!
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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.
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names t h a t led
most of the com
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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
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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.
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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
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