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...Which one? Great Heavens, are you mad?" With these magisterial words a bowler-lidded Brahmin in the pages of this week's New Yorker indicates a preference for the Crimson banner over the green and gold of Western Maryland. If you put the same first question in cold cash to a sporting speculator last night as to the outcome of this afternoon's Stadium encounter you could probably have come up with 25 to 1 for the long shot. You'd also be mightly lonesome...
...Chalk up one Brooklyn strike for Bowler Varipapa...
Andy ("The Greek") Varipapa is a powerful, stubby little man, and his own warmest admirer. Says he: "Hell with that blushing violet stuff." Varipapa, is, and admits it, the world's greatest bowler...
...bowl with either hand, with both at the same time, with his foot. In Detroit, where bowling goes biggest in the U.S., he gets $900 a week when he puts on exhibitions. Says he: "If I'd been a golfer, I would have putted with precision. As a bowler, I am a master of rhythm." Varipapa's confidence is unbruised by the fact that in 16 tries he has never won the A.B.C. (American Bowling Congress), biggest tourney...
From his exhibitions, movie shorts and lectures, Andy Varipapa earns about $25,000 a year. His advice to the nation's 18 million amateur bowlers: the approach is the most important thing, four even steps with no sudden stop when the ball is released (though he himself, an exception to his own rules, takes five); the arm should swing up as if the bowler were throwing it up to shake hands with someone; the eyes should not be on the pins but on a point at the foul line where the ball will first touch. But there...