Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 84, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 29, 1958 Page: 6 of 6
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I — IRECKENRIDGS AMERICAN—TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 19S8
KltY MY IS TOR FOR EXCITEMENT
in DEI DEMY TO
LOUISVILLE 1*1- The day he-
fore thf Kentuckj Derby yo«
ran buy a Churchill Downs racing
program for 15 ccnt.s On Derby
day a similar program costs 25
cents Hut that's only apicayune
item. Everything goes up on Der-
by day.
There's no economic recession
inside a race track Kor instance,
a box seat for a World Series game
costs $10 A box seat at the Ken-
tucky Derby is $17—and they're
harder to come by
As the liquid refreshments, some
haukers get $2 50 for a mint julep
but the buyer can keep the frost-
ed glass It's a nice Derby monien-
to. too provided you can get a few
home without dropping them
The day before the Derby you
(an park on the grounds for 25
Roller
Skating
PARTY NIGHT
Thursday Evening
6 till !• I*. M.
Regular Session 9 till II
ItECINNERS CLASSES
TUESDAY 2-6 P. M.
FRIDAY 2-i P. M.
Saturday &-I2 A. M.
FRIDAY - SATURDAY
2-2-hour sessions
7 9 and 9 11 P. M.
Prices Reduced Accordingly
Breckenridge
Roller Rink
Just West of Miller Park
1 cents. On Derby day the fee is
double If you go far "avoid the
'crush" barkers and park on some
home owner's lawn the fee is $5.
On Derby day there are nine
races, one extra, probably to help
some people in their sustained de-
sire to get even.
You can wager on the Derby
at 10 o'clock in the morning. There
are special betting booths.
Pre Derby day there's a page
in the program devoted to "daily
double rules." But on Derby day
this page lists "past Kentucky
Derby winners." There is on dou-
ble on Derby day.
I'ari-mutel machines sell "tote"
tickets, and the program tells "how-
to ask for tote tickets," but there
is no "tote board." A true "tote
board" is a totalizator which shows
exactly how much money is bet on
each horse The only board at Chur-
chill Downs is an odds board. You
j can't tell how heavily any horse is
being wagered for win. place or
1 show
Yet despite all the honkev tonk
atmosphere and old wooden stands,
the Kentucky Derby is one of the j
most exciting events in sports
The start is more electrifying
than the first hit in a World Series
or rhe opening kickoff in an Army j
Navy football game. Once the start- j
ing gates open some 50.000 lans i
seem to >ell simultaneously, and
they keep screaming for enetire
1 running ol the race or two minutes
and a few seconds
There seems to be utter confu- |
1 sion among the spectators during
the running of this 3-year-old clas-
sic Take last year's race which
Iron Liege won by a nose over gal-
lant Man Probably no more than
100 people at the finish line knew
what happened.
Those close to the rail could see
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that Iron Liege was never headed.-
But behind tnem people stood up
in box seats to block the view of
thousands. To many it looked like
Gallant Man would be the winner,
lie was gaining on Bill Hartack
aboard Iron Liege down the stretch.
But Willie Shoemaker, on Gallant
Man, misjudged the finish and his
horse never made it. tie was sus-
pended IS days. This year they'll
have a bright colored marker so
Wee Willie knows exactly where
the finish line is.
Willie this time has another
game horse. He's Silky Sullivan,
a West Coast speedball in morning
workouts but an afternoon loafer,
lie has come from 40 lengths off
the pace. A more apt name might
be Sulky Sullivan, 'the Derby will
tell. This race usually separates
the big colts from the boys.
All winter long the talk has been
about Tim Tam 'llartack up> and
Jewel's Reward (Edward Arcaro
up1. That's the way they finished
in the Flamingo when Jewel's
Reward won by a head but was
placed second for bumping Tim
Tam It looks like a two horse race
with Tim Tam coming on to beat
Jewel's Reward, the colt Arcaro
probably will take to the front.
Silky Sullivan
May Find Long
Race To Liking
By CHARLES MOREY
A. P. Sports Writer
The man in the street believes
that the mile and one-quarter ol
the Kentucky Derby will be right
down "Silky Sullivan's" groove.
There is room for doubt about
that.
The man along the backstretch
at Churchill Downs believes that
Silky can not possibly spot horses
like "Jewel's Reward." "Tim
Tam" and "Nadir" an acre of
ground and still catch them.
There is room for doubt about
that.
Silky Sullivan just happens to be
the most paradoxical horse to race
in this counrty.
He does everything wrong but he
has a nasty little habit of popping
up in the winner's circle from
time to time. And when he doesn't
make it to the winner's circle he
worries the life out of whoever
does.
Now, returning to our original
line about the mile and one-quar-
ter distance.
The average horseplayer believes
that Silky will love the long Derby
route because it will give him just
that much more time to make his
rally.
That may be the case. On the
other hand it must be remem-
bered that Silky is a one-run horse
and always makes his run late in
the race. This will be the first
time that he. or any other colt in
this year's derby, has attempted a
mile and one-quarter. And when
Silky moves into high on Saturday
the first 6 or 1 furlongs may have
taken enough out of him so that
he will not have quite his usual
i
SETS NEW RECORD—Billy Casper, right, of Apple Valley, Calif.,
congratulates Stan Leonard. Vancouver, B. C., after the Canadian
nosed out Casper by one stroke to win SI0.000 first place money
in the Tournament of Champions played at the Desert Inn Country
Club in Las Vegas, Nev. Leonard shot a 4-under par last-round
68 for a 72-hole total of 275, 13 under par and a new course record.
kick in the stretch.
that's strictly maybe, of course.
There is no guarantee that goes
with any of this.
About the business of spotting
class horses a lot ol ground and
still catching them.
It can be done. If Silky can ran
the fourth quarter and the filth
quarter mile of the race in his
usual pell-mell style he can catch
anything on four legs.
So, what the Derby may boil
down to on Saturday afternoon is
whether Silky Sullivan can still
run a half mile at jet speed after
going at his usual helicopter pace
for the opening six furlongs.
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Cleveland May
Decide Change
Of Site Needed
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
There is a small cloud, no larger
than a man's hand on the Cleve-
land baseball horizon.
Right now' looking at it from Cle-
veland. it appears to be somewhere
in the vicinity of St. Paul and Min-
neapolis, two cities coupled in bet-
ting when you talk about a big
league franchise.
What we're getting around to say-
ing is 'that the Cleveland attend-
ance figures continue to shrink.
And if they shrink any more some
of the stockholders may conclude
that it's time for a change.
St. Paul and Minneapolis couM
be the answer. Actually, we may-
have put those in the wrong order.
Minneapolis probably should come
first in this story. There is
a brand new ball park in Minnea-
polis that was constructed with a
big league franchies in mind, we
include St. Paul because a lot of
♦hp ontronase for a Minneapolis
big league club would come from
that city across the river.
Anyhow, the Minneapolis Park
has a seating capacity of 24.000
and it can be doubled without too
much trouble.
Getting back to Cleveland, the
stockholders did not like the look
of last year's total attendance. 722.-
256. That was down more th.?:i 140.-
000 from the previous year's figure
of 865,467. And that, of course, was
only a shadow of the bright days
of a few years ago when attend-
ance soared far over the million
mark.
The Cleveland stockholders made
som^ major moves after last year's
poor season. They fired Hank
Greenberg as general manager
and brought in Frank Lane. They
eased out Kerby Farrell as field
, manager and summoned Bobby
i Bragan to take his place.
j Both moves were calculated to
• put some color in the team and
| Jack up the box office.
1 So far there has been no sign
that it has. The Indians have been
playing to a handful of spectators.
On four occasions the paid atten-
dance was below 3.000. At those
rates the tribe would be better off
letting them in free just to sell
hot dogs and soda pop.
Of course, it's still April. If the
team warms up with the weather
i and plays winning baseball, the cus-
! tomers may yet turn out in full
I force.
But if not. there just could be
I some interesting d e velopments
, in the Cleveland situation before
! next f." 11.
Missions Lead
Texas League
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Texas League has an undis-
! puted leader today, San Antonio,
because of rain and San Antonio's
I seventh straight victory.
Austin tied with the Missions for
the top. was idled at Tulsa because
of bad weather. At the same time
San Antonio nosed Victoria 4-3 to
push into the top spot.
Only two games could be played
last night with Houston winning the
other one, an 8-3 decision over Cor-
pus Christi.
Dallas and Fort Worth failed for
the second night in trying to get in
a double header .
San Antonio got only nine hits
hut two were doubles and another
was a home run. by Joe Duhem.
Manager Grady Hatton's double
pulled San Antonio to a 3-1 edge in
the filth inning and the Missions
put over what proved to be the «le-
ciding tally in the sixth on hits by
Stan Hallmig. Jim Sheets and Jim
Mangan
Jim Michalec did some nifty re-
lief pitching to preserve the vic-
tory for A1 Osrlo. He went is the
eighth with two on base and none
out and gave up only a single hit
the rest of the way.
Houston was led in its triumph
over Corpus Christi by Herbie Ad-
ams and Charley James, who drove
in five runs between them. James
singled in the run that put Houston
ahead 4-3 in the eighth. Then the
Buffs crammed four tallies across
in the ninth to win going away.
James' triple was the big blow in
the surge.
Women's Amateur
Play Opens Today
AUSTIN iVPi— Match play begins
today and continues throughout
the week in the 37th annual Texas
Women's Amateur Golf Champion-
ship at Austin.
Medalist honors went to Mrs.
Grant Messenger of Denton yester-
day.
Mrs. Messenger played near-per-
fect golf over the long Austin Coun-
try Club course, scoring a one-
over-par 75. She bad 13 pars, 2
birdies and 3 bogeys.
Mrs. Messenger was a semifin-
alist in last year's tourney.
Mrs. John Rathmell of Houston
took runner-up honors with a 76.
She was last year's medalist.
Ryff Is Winner
In Gotham Bout
NEW YORK 1*1— Lightweight
Frankie Ryff outclassed Brooklyn's
Johnny Gorman in a light hiting 10-
rounder last night at St. Nicholas
arena in New York. Neither boy
showed much punchink power and
there was nothing anywhere near
a knockdown. Ryff, faster and bet-
ter boxer than Gorman, took the
unanimous decision by a wide mar-
gin. The victory was Ryff's 25th in
30 fights. Gorman has now lost 7
of 35.
Redskins signed a pair of rookies,
tackle Ben Preston of Auburn and
end Dan Pelham of Florida, to Na-
tional Football League contracts.
•tor smi-ip
Southern To Bid
For Nat'l Record
AUSTIN '^—University of Texas
officials hinted last night that Ed-
die Southern may bid for a new
national record in his specialty, the
440-yard dash, at Austin Thursday
night.
Southern will run the open quar-
ter for the first time since March
15th when he tied the national
collegiate record of 46.2 in the
Southwest Recreational Meet at
Fort Worth.
Thursday night Southern will
race only in the 440-dash and the
440-rela.v in a triangular meet with
Rice Institute and Texas A&M.
Dots And Dashes
In Sports World
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
UCLA signed head basketball
coach Johnny Wooden to a new
long term contract. The former
Purdue great has handed the Bru-
ins for 10 years . The ex-pro play-
er and coach. Red Holtzman, was
appointed assistant coach and
scout for the New York Knicker-
bockers of the National Basketball
Association—And the Washington
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FIXED UP
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Buildings repaired *
Back yards
Buildings modernized *
Front yards
Porches and steps repaired
Vacant lots
Roofs repaired
Walls
Water faucet leaks repaired
Basements
Screens repaired
Attics
Fences repaired
House gutters
Electrical equipment repaired
Porches
Electrical wire or cord replaced
Garages
Old electrical fixtures replaced
Furnaces
PLANTED UP
Street name signs cleaned
Flower boxes
Insect breeding places destroyed
Flower gardens
Rats killed
Vegetable gardens
Truck loads trash hauled away
Grass plots sowed
Refuse cans disinfected
Shrubbery
New refuse cans provided
Trees
PAINTED UP
Shrubbery and trees trimmed
Houses (outside)
Dead trees and stumps removed
Rooms (painted)
SALVAGED (Either tonnage or value1
Rooms (kalsomined or water paint)
Rooms (papered)
Metals
Floors
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Woodwork
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Porches
Fences
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Roofs
Cellars and basements
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