in all sincerity that few events during the past several years have
afforded me greater pleasure than watching these skillful, well-trained,
talented and high-spirited athletes perform on the playing field at
Memorial Stadium.

I know that clever slogans predicting victory for a season in sport
sometimes have a way of turning sour and so I shall not try to
invest such a slogan for the Baltimore Colts in the 1961 season. But
somehow I have a feeling that this year these Colts, who, are always
great, are usually victorious and are sometimes the champions, are
ready for another national championship.

The City of Baltimore and the State of Maryland are most fortunate
indeed in having excellent teams in both professional baseball and
professional football to bring our chief city out of the "bush league"
category. Forgetting professional baseball for the moment—for this is
football day here—the Baltimore Colts not only have brought pleasure
and enjoyment to many hundreds of thousands, but they have also,
in the form of good will and good publicity, brought profits and
benefits of immeasurable value to the City and the State.

The smell of autumn rekindles our interest in the great sport of
football, and right now most of us here, I know, are making our
plans eagerly to attend the opening game of the Colts and as many
games thereafter as possible, including championship playoffs. It is a
great pleasure, I assure you, to extend greetings, personally and in
may official capacity, to owners, coaches, players and all others connected
with the Baltimore Colts.

REMARKS, CHAMPIONSHIP JOUSTING TOURNAMENT

OWINGS MILL

September 30, 1961

Knights, ladies and guests of the tournament:

We are about to witness here today a spectacle replete with tradition
and symbolism—a contest in the manly skills whose history stretches
back a thousand years to the early age of chivalry. It is no mere
coincidence, in my opinion, that this ancient sport, in which knightly
combatants displayed their prowess and courage to win a prize or
favor bestowed by the "queen of beauty, " where it survives at all,
flourishes in this country only in Maryland. For Marylanders have