They Said It...

?Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, attending Trainer Ben Jones's 75th birthday party: "I've seen Ben cut many's the cake around the race track. But it's the first time I've ever known him to let someone else have a piece of it."

?Norris Poulson, Mayor of Los Angeles, in a telegram to the mayor of Baker, Ore., Poulson's home territory: "Please let me know if you have any vacant cow pastures or acreage suitable for a ball diamond (major league). Signed, Desperate Norris."

? Ford Frick, when asked on a television interview if he thought the National League had made a wise move in leaving the New York area open when the Dodgers and Giants went to the West Coast: "I think they are beginning to feel they may have made a mistake moving out of this town."

? Buck Shaw, coach of the College All-Stars who were defeated by the Hawaii All-Stars in the Hula Bowl in Honolulu: "I think my squad might have won if we hadn't been shut out in the first quarter 33-0."