| Show I Calumet Horses Can't Win All I By GRANTLAND RICE HAS BEEN a rough year on Notre Dame Joe Louis tottered and was badly And now Calumet stable and the Jones boys are running second In the Big Money stakes after taking top honors In 1948 and Brookmeade's able owned by Dodge Sloan now in front with closing JN Both and Grantland way to C a 1 I-fornia where the Hollywood track and Santa Anita are offering a flock of purses from to with and pick-ups scattered all over the Western At least that part bordering Los The purse will be for the Maturity a four-year-old affair where Hill Prince will be the horse to beat now that Middle-ground's racing career has been ended by a broken It seems impossible to realize that is no longer at the You turn back and see Two Bewitch and many others who have dominated the tracks from here to nowhere and Ben and Jimmy were dividing their big stable and were mopping Both are among the great trainers and they had the largely the offspring of Bull In 1947 Calumet piled up over an all-time They won In 1948 with Citation and Coaltown mopping up at every Ponder was a big money winner In ably abetted by and the stable's winnings totalled But suddenly Something always happens In And not always for the financial Bull Lea suddenly quit sending those crack two-year-olds to the tracks two-year-olds who grew tn be fine three-year-olds and Calumet was certain rated with Man o as a would collect most of the gold in California last I saw him run several but the absence from competition had taken its Citation was no longer Citation and then there was Noor who would have taxed Citation even at his best on the coast Citation may come back again So may who won 12 straight In Bowl Phantoms It is still much too early to start lining up the various But you can gamble each Bowl has more than one hard-working Inspector working on the There are now four veteran Bowls with several added The four major Bowls are the Cotton and at New Dallas and The Rose Bowl Is the most uncertain of the The Pacific coast champion will be In doubt for several more If Ohio State wins the Big Nine or Big Ten the second-best tram will head The Big Nine has no outstanding delegation It be Ohio Wisconsin or some The Big Nine Is In the throes of an off compared to Its big years In the California and Stanford still lead the west coast people with Washington close The Sugar Bowl at New another is eyeing Oklahoma and either Texas or As the Cotton Bowl at Dallas is banking on Texas or unless Rice can slip It appears that the winner here will remain in Texas on New Year's Just at the moment the Sugar and Orange Bowls are all watching the same Oklahoma and any outsider who may pop into the middle of the The southwest now has more bowl entries than any other What To I checked last fall with graduate managers from UCLA and Southern Each figured television had cost them around paid admissions each game especially each important This was equal to a loss of a They were getting a season for television rights not nearly enough to make up the heavy deficit and keep the sport going in the It may be in a few years the crowds will tire of television sets and come back to the playing grounds But as long as they are willing to bring the game to you for nothing I can't visualize huge mobs rushing out to pay for being shoved around and set down In uncomfortable I'd rather have them bring It to than go out and look for Especially when It's Just as Almost everyone would rather have television except the promoters or |
