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By JACK CUDD'Y
l'Copyriglitt:
b937.
by United P'ress;t
H
AVANA, M<JTch
2.-WP}.-A
gang of us
Wf!'r<?
lolling about the National Hofe[ Bar listening to
senor Joseph Herg.esheimer, fhe very rophsticated
american novelist, giving
atf
an erudite lecture
about CaFI Huboell, !lhe Giants' pitcher; picturirrg him as
a fine type of the ral'.)'idly d'windling mce
0f
thrue amer–
icans, when somehow or other the general conversation
Glrifted to the subject of drinking<. And without a dissent–
ing voice it was agreed l'hat d'rinl<.ing
wa·!§.
Cuba's l'<fation<ri
Sport.
That's where Constantino RibalaTgua. comes irr. Constan)...
Nno was (caps) not (uncaps}
a
member of O'Llr p-arfy. No
indeed! Consfanfino Rioalaigua is the cocktail king
of
Cubi'I
-champion of the fs:Jand's. outstanding sport.
We
firs~
learned about the kirrg pin> of Caban drink
dispensers. from otn: bar\fender whel'l'
he
whisp~red
the name
of Ribalaig.ua. Then we sen"t
a
committee of one
~o
make
a telephone poll of Sleppy J'Oe's, the Plaza,
fhe
Se.villa,
an~
Prado 86. He returned and saidl the bartender was righr,
The vote was unanimously in
~avor
of Consilaniin<J Riba;.·
laigua.
Now, since
P
am d©wn· ne'rt?' to oos-erve not ol"l'!y the
~iants
in
~hefr
warm-ups, bul' also. to investigate the
pu–
rely native sport's and' tfTei r premie-r exponen-t51
t
figure
that it was.
miy
dafy to investigafe the style of this:
Ribafaigua's cfelo.very and to find out just what he had o:-i
ihe shaer. T.he senor;
r
was informed, pitches his cocktails;