Show Calumet Horses Cant Can't Win Em All By GRANTLAND RICE T THIS HAS lIAS BEEN DEEN a rough year year on champions Notre Dame fell feU Joe Louis tottered and was badly beaten And now Calumet stable and the Jones boys are running second In the DIg Big Money stakes I after taking top honors In 1946 1948 1947 1948 and 1949 Brookmeade's Brookmeade able stable owned by rw- rw Mrs Dodge Sloan and trained by Preston Burch is isnow Isnow now In front with Vanderbilt closing In from t third b I r d I place Both Doth Calumet and Vanderbilt J are on t their h cd r Grantland Rice wa way to C a 11 I I I. fornia here chere the Hollywood track and Santa Anita are offerIng offering offer offer- ing lug a flock nock of purses purse from to with with and ups pick-ups scattered allover all allover allover over the Western Coast At least that part bordering Los An An- geles The purse will be for the Maturity Stake a old year affair af at fair where Hill Prince will be the horse to beat now that Middleground's Middle grounds ground's racing career has been ended by a broken ankle It seems impossible to realize that Calumet is no longer lon at the top You turnback turnback turn turnback back and see lee Citation Coaltown Armed Ponder Fer Fez Fervent vent Two Lea Bewitch and many many others who have dominated the tracks from here to nowhere and back Ben Een and Jimmy were dividing their big stable and were mopping up Both are among the great trainers trainers train train- ers and they had bad the horses largely largely large large- ly the offspring of Bull Lea In 1947 1941 Calumet piled plied up over an time all high They won In 1948 with Citation Cita Cita- I tion and Coaltown mopping up at every track Fonder Ponder was a abig abig abig big money winner In 1949 abl ably abetted by Coaltown and the stables stable's winnings totalled 1 But Dut suddenly something happened Something always happens in racing rating And not al always always al al- ways for the financial best null Hull Lea suddenly quit sending those crack two olds to the tracks two tracks year two who grew and to be fine year three year four Calumet was certain Citation rated with Man o 0 War as a three three- year old would collect most of the gold in California last winter I saw uw him run several times but the month 14 absence from competition had taken Its cut Citation was no longer Citation and then there was Noor who would have taxed Citation Cita tion even at his best on the coast tracks Citation may come coma back again later So may Coaltown who won 12 straight in 1949 1049 Bowl Phantoms It I Is still sun much too earl early to start lining up the thee various Bowls Dows Hut But you can gamble gambia each Bowl Howl has more than one working hard Inspector tor working on the Job There are arenow arenow arenow now four veteran Bowls Dowis with several several sev icy eral added attractions The four major Bowls Dowl are re the Rose flose Sugar Cotton and Orange at Pasadena New Orleans Dallas D-allu and Miami The Rose Itose Bowl Dowl Is the most uncertain of 01 the lot The Pacific coast champion will be In doubt for several more weeks If U Ohio State wins the Big nig Nine or Big Ten title the second best team will head west The Rig Big Nine has no outstanding delegation today It could be Michigan l Purdue Ohio State Wisconsin or some other The Rig DIg Nine Nino Is II In the throes of f an off oft year compared to Its bl big yean years In Inthe Inthe Inthe the past California and Stanford Stanford Stan Stan- ford lord still lIun lead the west welt coast people with Washington close up The Sugar Bowl Dowl at New Orleans another getter crowd-getter is Ii eyeIng eyeIng eye eye- Ing tag Kentucky Tennessee Mary Mary- Maryland Maryland land Oklahoma and either Texas or As A the Cotton Bowl Howl at Dallas is banking on Texas or SM U. U unless Rice can slip In it appears appears ap ap- ap pears that the winner here will wUl remain remain remain re re- re- re main In Texas on New Years Year's Day Just at the moment the Cotton Sugar and Orange Bowls Dowis are all an watching the same teams Texas teams Texas Rice Tennessee Kentucky Maryland Oklahoma and any outsider outsider out out- sider aider who ma may pop into the middle of the picture The southwest now has more bowl entries than any other sector S What To Do Dol DolI I checked last fall with graduate managers from Pennsylvania Yale UCLA and Southern California Each figured television had cost them around paid admissions admission each game game especially especially each Important Im tin- game This was equal to a loss oss of a game They were getting Betting II a. a season for television tele tele- vision 4 rights j rot t nearly enough to tomake tomake make up the Heavy eavy deficit and end keep the sport aport going in the schools It U may mar be In a few years rear the crowds crowd will wID tire of 01 television sets let and come back to the play play- playIng Ing grounds round again But nut a. a long iong longas as they ther are willing to bring the game came to you yon tar for nothing I cant can't visualize huge bure mobs rushing out outto outto outto to pay for being crowded shoved around and set let down In uncomfortable seats eats Id I'd rather have them bring It U to me sue than go 10 out and look for It Especially Especial ly iy I when U it its it's Just Jut as a. good Almost everyone would rather have bave television except the promoters promoters promo promo- ten or ox owners I |