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...change of pace, Big Moment showed a basketball-court brawl, inspected the antics of aquatic stuntmen, took a slow-motion look at a disputed football play. This week it will picture Jack Fleck's U.S. Open golf victory over Ben Hogan in 1955, the 1942 race between Alsab and Whirlaway, the Army-Navy football game of 1948 (Army 21, Navy 21), and in weeks to come, Ben Hogan's famed comeback, Jesse Owens' track feats at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Columbia's last-minute upset of an Army eleven in 1947. In all, it promises...
...years, Fasig-Tipton has auctioned stock for everyone in the horsy set from the Vanderbilts to the Aga Khan, at an average fee of about 5% of the sale price. Among the biggest prizewinners it has handled: Battlefield, which went for $4,500 and has already earned $430,000; Alsab, which sold for a paltry $700 and earned Owner Mrs. Albert Sabath $350,000; and Man o' War, the equine immortal which went for $5,000 and racked up a gross track income...
...Whirlaway, $561,161; Seabiscuit, $437,730; Sun Beau, $376,744; Alsab, $350,015; Equipoise, $338,610; Challedon, $334,660; Phar Lap, $332,350; Gallant Fox, $328,165; Shut Out, $317,507; Busher...
...Count has already won 16 races, earned $250,300, made a runaway farce of top 1943 three-year-old events. The final test of ability will come when he is entered in races against older horses like Whirlaway, Alsab, Market Wise and Don Bingo, the four-year-old Argentine colt that ruined Bob Hope's radio scripts when he won the Suburban Handicap for Bing Crosby earlier in the week...
...Albert Sabath's Alsab: a $25,000 match race, winner-take-all; by a nose, over Warren Wright's Whirlaway; after a pulldevil, pull-baker stretch drive that ended in a photo finish; at New England's Narragansett Park. Three-year-old Alsab carried 119 lb.; four-year-old Whirlaway, 126. The distance: a mile and three-sixteenths...