Glick Has a Voice That Can Start Cars

There’s the power of the press, but Shav Glick, The Times’ retired Hall of Fame motor sports writer, experienced another kind of power Sunday.

As the grand marshal of the NASCAR Nextel Cup Auto Club 500 at California Speedway, Glick got to give the command: “Gentlemen, start your engines.”

The Times’ Kelly Burgess, who was among those with Glick at the time, heard him say after all 43 cars fired up: “Wow, they obeyed my order!”

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Trivia time: What year was Cookie Gilchrist of the Buffalo Bills named the most valuable player of the American Football League, and what number did he wear?

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A double hit: Romanian fourth-division soccer team Regal Horia purchased defender Marius Cioara from another Romanian club for 15 kilograms of meat, Reuters news service reported.

But Cioara decided to retire and go look for a job in agriculture or construction.

A team official was quoted by the local daily Pro Sport newspaper as saying: “We are upset because we lost twice -- first because we lost a good player and secondly because we lost our team’s food [supply] for a whole week.”

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A hole different story: According to the U.S. Golf Register, Norman Manley holds the record for most holes in one with 59, as stated in a recent Morning Briefing trivia.

However, reader Susan Drawbaugh sent along several newspaper clippings and a 1942 write-up in “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” that said her great grandfather, Jim East, had 132.

And reader Jan McQuade of Thousand Oaks says Donna Duke, 75, who was last written about in The Times in 1994 and now lives in Leisure Village in Camarillo, has 67 holes in one.

Duke, contacted at her home, said she recently got No. 67 on the 157-yard 18th hole at Westlake Golf Course in Westlake Village. She used a seven-wood.

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Wayne’s world: Joe Biddle of the (Nashville) Tennessean, on a possible title for actress Janet Jones’ next movie: “Honey, I Shrunk the Bank Account.”

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Jokes everywhere: Florence Henderson, the mistress of ceremonies for last weekend’s Paralysis Project of America dinner, opened by waving money and saying, “I won my bet. I bet Janet Jones that I was going to be the emcee of this affair.”

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For what it’s worth: The Mirage in Las Vegas has the Clippers at 35-1 to win the NBA championship. The Lakers are also listed at 35-1.

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Looking back: On this day in 1960, the U.S. Olympic hockey team scored six goals in the third period to defeat Czechoslovakia, 9-4, and win the gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley.

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Trivia answer: Gilchrist was named the AFL’s MVP by United Press International and Associated Press in 1962, and wore No. 34.

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And finally: “Sure the TV ratings for the Olympics have been low,” wrote Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle. “We’re talking about luge, people.”

Larry Stewart can be reached at larry.stewart@latimes.com.