Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 12, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Personalities this team hits not Bible i Iii stars would beat Good goodies in barroom and bedroom Ive never understood what re Ligion has to do with Why should a coach who leads his football team in a locker room prayer think that a Universal deity could have the faintest in Terest in whether his team can bite and fracture its Way to More touch Downs than the and now we Are getting the pious preachings of a growing band of muscle Lexers called die Fellowship of Christian they keep popping up from All sports trying to convince us that their spiritual beliefs have some thing to do with their these Young athlete preachers also talk about the importance of shunning the fact religion or Good character have nothing to do with athletic in i would argue that some of the greatest players of All time have been some of the greatest with the assistance of Bill the flamboyant baseball and George author and baseball i have put together an Allstar it consists of players who would qualify As members of the Fellowship of wenching and Gam bling i Challenge anybody to Field a team of Good Goody players who could beat them on the or in the barroom or bedroom for that my lineup left Field you cannot have an Al time team of any kind without babe the Home run and he is King of this As an admiring Veeck said he was a a a a brawler and a tireless Centre Field and no team would be Complete without to the Al time batting Champ for 23 How important is decency and goodness Vass says Cobb was the mean most hat filled Man Ever to play the and his temper ment didst get any better off the right Field it is said that Paul Waner used to sip from a Coke bottle in the one when he was a thirsty new Bat boy took a deep the kid woke up with a terrible when Waner want hitting the Coke he hit Over 19 first base i know Hack Wilson was an but on my team he plays the he Doest have to stagger As far Between Veeck recalls i walked into the locker room before a game and Wilson was soaking in a tub with three 50pound blocks of they were trying to get him sober enough to he was in terrible but he he hit three Home runs that Wilson still holds the National Mike Royko league record for Home runs in a season 56 and runs batted in second base Rogers Homs by lifetime average did not smoke or drink and Seldom so what is he doing on this team horses and we do need shortstop Rabbit Maranville was one of the greatest Field ers of them Veeck says he once staggered out of his teams hotel and got into a fight with a he so he picked a fight with the next cabbie and he fought three More of and they All beat the the hell out of so i asked him what he was he said in trying to find one i can third base with Jimmy Foxx 534 Home average you never knew if he was just sliding into a base or just falling Veeck says when he started a he showed up for the grand opening four Days drinking and brawling Catcher it was 3 when Bill Weecks phone the police in Queens had Rollie hems the great in custody for drinking and Veeck got him out and took him Back to the at about 8 the police in Brooklyn now they had Hemsley in Veeck got him to the thus depriving Hemsley of a Chance to set an Al time record 1 of being arrested in every new York Borough in the same pitchers no Pitcher was Ever More relaxed than the great Grover Cleveland Alexander when he came in As a Relief Pitcher during a crucial world series game with the he was so he was Stag but he struck the last Man whether he knew it or who would be manager of this collection of free spirits who else but Leo whose exemplary habits once got him kicked out of As their All hed need would be a i should caution Young Ball players that i am not recommending that they pattern them selves after the above you might wind up a but it is More Likely you would slide Down the Road to Degra Dation and finally wind up As a Mike Royko is on vacation at the Chicago this column is taken from his Book slats Robnik and some other May Page 16 Shelley Winters in water a lot Chicago Tribune Chicago in a some of the most memorable moments in Shelley Winters acting career have involved her status As a kind of cinematic water in a place in the As the Blu Collar Girlfriend of Montgom Ery she ended up at the Bottom of a Lake after being tossed aside for Beautiful Rich girl Eliza Beth in the night of the As the wife of Homicidal preacher Robert she was dumped in the River her As one Char Acter Lazy and soft like Meadow grass under flood in the Poseidon adventure it was the Atlantic As win ters efforts at swimming for her life sent critics scrambling for All kinds of and Only recently she finished filming a television Alice in in which she paddles around in a Lake created by the heroines this month she was supposed to appear in a production in the Chi Cago suburb of Oakbrook Terrace in you know i cant hear you when the Waters but that went Down the i was going to change the mans part the producer to a but it didst she it had very off color i the Man appears and they discuss his she was scheduled to open Here in the rooster and the two comedic plays in which she is cast As the Advertis in executive wife of an ornithologist and As an old i an aging at the As Winters sits sort for an interview a few Days before the she is dressed All in Black shoes something seems to be the assume it turns is her goal is to drop 10 More pounds by opening night have to run around in a Black Negligee she thinks till be closer to minus i still Haven lost the weight from the Poseidon she says they did a Terri ble thing to they asked me to get up to 200 i guess they wanted me to look like moby Jackson noted for roles As Independent women the Washington Post new York British actress Glenda once divorced and twice is currently starring As the mercurial Nina Leeds in the five hour Broadway revival of Eugene one ills strange on the night in 1970 when she won her first Academy her portrayal of Gudrun in the film version of lawrences women in Bette Davis placed a congratulatory transatlantic Call to were the weve both got funny the actress says i did in my wish that i were i think that i am quite grateful that my face is the Way it because its sufficiently Jacksons unadorned appear Ance May allow her the wipe Abi Lity she has always but her voice commands so Low and throaty and utterly in a Stormy marriage of lower and upper a lorry Driver gone to her delivery is her phrasing a wry offering of prickly she describes herself As deeply Bossy and in spite of what she sees As her own Lack of seductive and despite her rather Ordinary she has fashioned a successful stage and screen career out of playing fiercely Independent women from opposite ends of the feminist food Chain from regal rulers the abcs Elizabeth Mary Queen of scots to inde pendent divorces a touch of sunday bloody sunday to a gifted artist Stevie to neurotic misfits the music in 1973 she won her second acad Emy for a touch of for All her protestations that she is just a suburban she has lived her life with a single minded determination to be a great if shed gone into shed be prime her Sexhus Roy once Daniels got break from Allen newspapers san Francisco Jeff who plays two of the three leads m Woody Allens delightful flew the Pur ple Rose of int what youd Call a outgoing kind of mildly introverted Are a bit closer to the is the 30yearold actor stumping so furiously for purple Rose its for Daniels re plies softly without looking i want going to go out with this i dont really like doing but Woody decided he wanted me and spent hours talking the studio people at Orion pictures into hiring its a helluva break for this is my Way of paying him Back for believing in heretofore known for his new York stage work fifth of july and his maddeningly preoccupied professor husband in terms of admits having trouble tooting his own to he recalls his first interview with three weeks into shooting purple decided the Man he had originally Michael mom was too flamboyant and opinionated to fit into an ensemble headed by Mia when terms was i got a Call from my who it looks like youre going to meet Woody when Woody inquired about sex Daniels mind went i didst even mention but who had a Boyish sparkle Allen was asked to screen test after two hours Prepa four Days he was told he had the when they told me id be play ing the character who walks off the screen Madcap adventurer Tom Baxter As Well As the actor who created him Gil i you mean it int a two scene role working with Woody was very professional and Daniels you my the Mark of a True is one who can successfully stray from the numbers without disturbing the nuance of the in town tonight Sokol polish Folk play House 180 Market tickets and seniors and children and at family court hit Krentz and David Centennial con Cert tickets to at Ato and to children radio highlights am pan Gordon and Jerry Bol me touch on sports 129q Swu toy pee concert the Paris 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