Word: atkinsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Juliette Atkinson Buxton, 71, onetime National Woman's tennis champion (1895-97-95); in Lawrenceville...
Three years at peak earning power is average in Atkinson's business. With quiet living and hard work, he should be among the few who stay at the top for a decade. One reason is his ease at making weights...
...year when U.S. flat racing soared to a betting record of 710 million inflated dollars, hard-working Theodore Frederic Atkinson had cleaned up, too. He had ridden 200 winners in 1943, had been hailed at a "Ted Atkinson Day" at Rockingham, and was the all around standout rider of New York tracks' fall meetings...
...scrambled for mounts until he rode War Relic to victory over Whirlaway in the 1941 Narragansett Special. Big stables took note: J. M. Roebling and C. V. Whitney put him under contract. Atkinson's dual contracts call for around $1,000 a month plus 10% of purses he wins. His income in 1943 was close to $60,000. Unlike most riders, he never gambles...
...jockeys are slaves to scales. As riders soar towards the 110 Ib. danger line, out come sweatboxes and rubber suits for roadwork under a broiling sun. Some live on black coffee, cigarets and an occasional graham cracker. At 27, tall by jockey heights (5 ft. 2¼ in.), Ted Atkinson needs none of these. His average weight (stripped...