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SATURDAY, JUNE 25 No Horses For Al Baseball's Quaint Fear Of The Track BY TRENT FRAYNE HAT was pretty terrifying news out of Detroit recently, the distressing revelation that Al Kaline, the ballplayer, owned a piece of a racing stable. Luckily, the barons of baseball were able to show Al the awful error of his ways. Hesold out his interest and is once more as pure as the driven snow. "A terrible thing, terrible," smiled Conn Smythe, the president of the Toronto Maple Leafs whese filly, Wonder Where, was voted the horse of the year in Canada last season. "Baseball must mainstain a constant vigil," agreed Frank Selke, the managing director of the Montreal Canadiens who is one of this country's leading breeders of thoroughbreds. "A thing like this could break out anywhere." "Frankly, I couldn't have been more amazed," observed James D. Norris, the owner of the Chicago Black Hawks who owns one of the most successful racing stables in the United States. "I mean, golly." E. P. Taylor, pressed for a statement as he stood at the $50 window at Old Woodbine, was thunder- struck. "Al who?" he asked. Yep, it was shocking, all right. Here was one of baseball's fine young outfielders actually considering an investment in horses. The stable was formed in April and was called the HKC Stables. It was named for Gordie Howe, the Detroit hockey star, for the cul- prit Kaline, and for an industrialist partner of theirs, Frank J. Carlin. The three of them own a firm which represents several companies as manufacturers' agents. "Actually I was just on the point of putting up my money when a guy wrote about it in the paper," Kaline related. "But there was so much fuss that I decided not to I like racing. I like horses. But such a fuss." Baseball's galloping (oops!) conscience when it comes face to face with horse-racing is frankly ludic- rous. Ever since 1920 when the game's first commis- sioner, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, endeavored to stamp out gambling in the wake of the Black Sox scandal during the 1919 World Series, the very word racing has been anathema. There was a reason for it then but there is no reason for it now. There's a popular fallacy, perpe- tuated largely by grade-B movies, that racing is rife with crooks and fixed races. The truth is that ne sport is more rigidly supervised, and that very few athletic events are less likely to be manipulated tliese days. Racing, through its own commissions and hired investigators, spends more time and money than all other professional sports combined to guard against skulduggery. There isn't a furlong of a horse race that isn't photographed and all films are scrupulously studied by government-appointed commissioners. There are saliva tests and urine tests of every winning horse, government-checked and filed. Plainclethes lawmen roam the lawns and the stable areas every raeing day sniffed out suspicious characters. Hockey, happily, has never had baseball's curious notion that an interest in horse-racing is like an in- terest in the white-slave trade. Numerous players and owners have racing interests. Harry Lumley, Boston goalkeeper, owns a string of harness horses, and has never been accused' of playing goal badly bécause of it. Tom Johnson of the Canadiens, the late Nels Stewart and Toronto's Max Bentley all owned horses or had interests in thoroughbred stables. And, of course, the aforementioned Smythe, Selke and Norris, all of whom are governors of the NHL, are heavily involved in racing. Jim Coleman, an official of the Jockey Club in Ontario, says he feels very strongly abeut the Kaline case. "It's like I've always said," Coleman noted when Kaline became a headline, "racing should insist on an intelligence test before permitting baseball people to hobnob with us. Who needs those stupid baseballers? All they bring is trouble." Baseball, of course, reached its most embarrassing moment when it appointed A. B. (Happy) Chandler its commissioner a decade ago. Chandler, the governor - of Kentucky, got the job largely through the lobbying influence of Lelald Stanford MacPhail, then president of the Yankees. One day Happy allowed that he did not think baseball and horse racing mixed. This intelligence was relayed to Mr. MacPhail at the Pimlico race track in Baltimore where he happened to be punting at the ten-dollar window. The late John Lardner once recorded the ensuing conversation, as a reporter buttonheled MacPhail "Deo you think horse racing and baseball can mix?" asked the reporter. "Go away and don't bother me," said Mr. Mac- Phail. "I am trying to figure the next winner." "But Commissioner Chandler says they won't mix," said the newshawk. 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