They Said It

Bill Stead, after surviving a 130-mph hydroplane somersault in the President's Cup race on the Potomac: "It's never been done before, I know that. But it isn't the kind of record Pm fond of establishing."

Beatnik in San Francisco predicting the pennant chances of a local baseball club: "The Giants are just like us—beat, beat, beat."

Joe Garagiola. St. Louis sportscaster, on the future of Milwaukee's ageless Enos Slaughter: "He'll be the first guy to play ball on the moon."

Stanley F. Horn, Nashville magazine editor and onetime owner of Nashville's minor league baseball team: "An aroused Congressman complains that 'there is too much crookedness in professional pugilism' but doesn't specify just how much crookedness he thinks there should be."