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he comic side of Detroit Red-Wing's Gordie Howe i
By FRED CEDERBERG ice game? Well, at least the type skaters. Keon gets belted:by Doug Bark-, hé dropped to one knee, resting, handle him — 1 start swinging Queen $ plate has ”

Toronto Telegram News Service|Managers and coaches of the| “I’m going to have to carry a! ley; he goes down hard, bounces! in that same game: as he starts his windup.
“It takes a lot of practice and

Me It’s com kn other five NHL clubs know about lightweight stick so I can take three feet up in the air and
‘co. mon: nowiedge that the latter and there’s a rumor'a whack at ’em ‘as they skate by; keeps going, never missing a

eome 17-going-on-18 years, is a
fair country-style hockey player.

on the rounds that. they have:
offered to underwrite a “Howe.
Comedy Career” out of their own

me. I'll never catch ’em withi stride. Heck, I was never that
the regulation lumber.

“TI saw a preview of the flick-

high, off the ice even when I was
young!” '

poise to look like you're just
resting when you’re in a state
of collapse.”

The bit about his hitting ma-

“I guess I-was due because I
pick off this pea and ride it a
mile with a mate aboard and
we are the winners, 2-1. This big

 

bettors wondering _

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to overwhelm the field, . prope

 

‘ uy runs around inside the base-| Canadian Press Sports Editor haven't h about it. -
pockets — mebbe because it’s’ ers coming out in the past sea-|HAD JOHNNY ON jor league pitching goes back al 20%" ; p ' haven't heard
he ee ow many know that he|the first funny thing they’ve “gon,” he stated. “In one sequence| THE SPOT ‘, ALMOST few years to the days when he aa ete Of aad cone aint rithwot ores eae Canada’s could be the dullest Pinte, als
fs as a home run tan maser ever associated with the slope-' On the fifth game of the April|Played for a Saskatoon club in/y. made up, he was so mad. and oldest horse race, in years. . i

ileague , pitching;:
Fenough. ofa comedian to make
ppt, ‘big if he ever decides to ac-

 

He eetting gray-halred and quit the

 

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shouldered onetime native of
Floral, Saskatchewan, today ‘a
citizen of Pres. John F. Ken-
nedy's U.S. of A. ‘

Howe has never been accused
of taking a game with him into

nights (although opposition
types insist he never has a ‘‘bad”’
night) because he has funnies
to make about ’em later.

Like his opinion of Leafs’
Davey Keon and the trend to-
ward lighter, faster, blue-darter

 

Stanley Cup final in which Leafs
took it all with a 3-1 triumph:
The particular incident was
when Howe lay atop Leaf goalie
Johnny Bower, and Normie Ull-
man, with the whole net to

trying to get loose and I figured,
‘a guy could get hurt if he stood
up suddenly at a time like this,’
so I just lay there. I had my
man.”

Then again, commenting on
the moment during a delay when

 

that province’s senior loop.
“We were in one of those tour-
naments that used to be popu-
lar,” he related, “out at Indian
Head, a little town of about 900
baseball crazy people outside

SUDDENLY HE KNEW SECRET

“Anyway, this pitcher is
throwing peas over the plate.
Yeah, I know a baseball isn’t
that small, but that’s what he
was throwing. After he fans me!

three times, I figure out how to Howe wears — a real good head. colt or filly with the credentials ed interest in the Plate.

“It was several years later, I
am in Washington, sitting in the
sun, taking in a ball game be-
tween the Senators and Yanks.
This big bird walks up, looks

Howe laugned, almost shyly,
as though he was proud to
meet the man in the Yankees’

 

uniform. “The guy was Tex Clev-

‘enger—a real good head.”

still retains the glamor and color
of an afterncon garden party
with ‘the women in furs and
fancy hats and their escorts in
toppers and tails. But the bet-
tors must be wondering about

urban Woodbine track. Usually
at this time, just hours before
the big event, railbirds get ex-
cited about workouts.

This year, the field appears to ;

JET TRAFFIC BABRED 872"
Things were . shaping,:up ‘fins
for an international race! tintil 6
few weeks ago when:the Jockey
Club declared American-owned
Jet Traffic was not eligible:*’:

 

 

  
 
 

 

. the dressing room, “Some nights, shoot at for the equalizer, struck | Saskatoon. We get into the fi-;d0wn at me and grins. the calibre of Canadian-foaled| ‘he colt was foaled im Canéda
3215 DIAL 3215 they’re going in,” he will say him on the leg with the puck. |mals and the other entry—barn-| “ ‘Hello, Farmer,’ he _ says,| three-year-olds. but it was belatedly discovered
FOR THE BEST about goals or the lack of them, “Eyerybody wants to know|Storming Americans mostly —|‘you still look like a big rube | There isn’t one in the barns that the entry, owned feat
IN. “others, a guy should sit on the what happened, why I didn’t get|@ré really shooting the works|and I still have shreds of that that ranks as an outstanding sell A Firestone Jr. of: rm
te bench.” up faster,” he says. “Well, it was|for the $2,000 first prize, which|baseball you drove out of the favorite in Saturday’s 104th run- Beach, Fla., was’ improperly
“CHINESE. F OOD . ‘But there’s no doubt he some- like this: Johnny was under-|Proved to me those guys had to/Park on me up in Canada. What ning of the $50,000-added Plate nominated by breeder... :-Frank
= : TRY ‘THE times thinks about those bad neath me, working like crazy,|€at, too. are you doing for a living now?” over 1% miles at Toronto’s sub-)Conklin of Brantford, ;Opt

Jockey Club officials beng
was too bad,: but wait

 

They
,wouldn’t want to admit” it; ‘but.

That’s a tag which Gordon be wide open and if there’s a Jet Traffic’s withdrawal lessen;

 

 

 

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