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Three weeks later, Sportsmen Clifford Shinn, John Baker and Emil Johnson were flying home to Los Angeles in Shinn's Piper Cub after a Mexican fishing trip. At a point 38 air miles south of the fishing village of San Felipe on Mexico's Gulf of California (190 miles south of the border), Shinn spotted a small plane on the desert. He landed near...
...home when they pay the most, Jockey Eddie Arcaro scored a rich double at New York's Belmont Park. In the $60,580 Matron Stakes he won by a length with Claiborne Farm's favored Doubledogdare. In the $58,100 Woodward Stakes, he rode under the wire Clifford Mooers' Traffic Judge, winner by a head...
Died. Donald Clifford Brace, 73, co-founder (1919) and president (1942-48) of Harcourt, Brace & Co., publisher of the early Sinclair Lewis, Carl Sandburg, Katherine Anne Porter, T. S. Eliot; after long illness; in Manhattan...
There was no need to worry. When the gate opened for the American Derby last week, Swaps broke in front. Jockey Willie Shoemaker allowed him his own, front-running race until they got to the 16th pole. Then Willie stood casually in his stirrups and looked behind. Clifford Mooers's Traffic Judge was closing fast. Willie just flicked his whip; he never hit Swaps once. The California champion reached out and finished a length in front. He had covered the mile-and-three-sixteenths in 1:54 3/5 to crack the track record and tie the American standard...
Test Pilot. In Cincinnati, after he was hauled into traffic court for speeding, fined $5 by Judge Frank M. Gusweiler, 73-year-old Clifford Hotchkiss explained: "My brakes were bad, and I was only trying them...