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...that the boys work continually with expensive equipment at the laboraotory, only one theft has occured on the premises during the three years of the program. Slack feels even this can be attributed to the negligence of the experimenter. "Twenty-five dollars in one-dollar bills was stolen on Ash Wednesday by a subject who didn't have a full-time job and was facing the prospect of being seen on Easter Sunday without new clothes," Slack explained. "Around here this is a disgrace among the younger crowd from the poorer neighborhoods. Anyway, the money was left in the room...
Some of Hillerich's best friends are trees. Though some of the timber used in his bats is grown on the company's 500-acre tract in Pennsylvania, he is always on the lookout for good timber. H. & B. has found that white ash grown on eastern or northern slopes has a bat's best qualities-resiliency and strength. The most important ingredient is careful labor. So skilled an art is hand fashioning that H. & B. has only four qualified bat turners, overseen by 65-year-old Fritz Bickel. Bat turning, says Bickel, "is like painting...
...start the cocky little man got a strong hold on his mount, then looked over the field. One glance told Jockey Bill Hartack, 27, that no horse was as full of running as his Celtic Ash. So Hartack coolly held his little-known colt in last place and let Eddie Arcaro on Venetian Way and Willie Shoemaker on Tompion fight for the lead in the $150,900 Belmont Stakes last week at Belmont Park...
Going into the far turn, Arcaro and Shoemaker were still riding neck and neck when Shoemaker shouted a warning: "Here comes Disperse!" But the horse that was coming-and coming fast-was not Disperse but Celtic Ash. Moving into the stretch, Hartack took Celtic Ash to the outside, and then simply let him go. Said Arcaro later: "That was the first I had seen of that pair. They went by awful fast." Celtic Ash ran the legs off both Venetian Way and Tompion to win by 5½ lengths...
...blasted by Venetian Way's trainer and fired as the horse's rider for finishing a poor fifth in the Preakness to Bally Ache (who missed the Belmont with a swollen foot). Owned by a retired Boston banker named Joseph O'Connell, the English-bred Celtic Ash had trained for more than a year for the i½-mile grind of the Belmont, paid off its backers at 8 to 1. Said Jockey Hartack: "He sure was dying...