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...probably a mistake for the Baltimore Colts' Bert Rechichar to boot a 34-yd. field goal early in the first quarter. It seemed to make his teammates nervous to be three points out in front of the Detroit Lions, the best professional football team in the business. Behind his own goal line to punt, just a few minutes later, Colt Quarterback Cotton Davidson got a glimpse of the whole Detroit line bearing down on him, fumbled the pass from center, watched Lion Guard Harley Sewell drop on the ball for a touchdown. After that the Colts and the crowd...
Still, the Queen did not quit on her colt. Like an anxious modern mother, she turned to psychiatry for help. There were experts in the Laurel grandstand who believed that Landau had been cured of his inferiority complex and was ready...
...sleek, black colt looked like a winner. Highbred and proud, Landau moved out of the paddock under the royal purple, gold and scarlet silks of his owner, Queen Elizabeth II. But his reputation had preceded him to the U.S. Every horseplayer who had come to Laurel, Md. for the third running of the Washington, D.C. International knew the skittish three-year-old as a notorious equine neurotic. Balky as a kid who always refuses to perform for company, he had an exasperating habit of quitting in a close stretch drive...
...psychotherapist who began his professional career as a corporation lawyer, Brook would stride past the sneering unbelievers of shed row with magnificent aplomb and go directly to Landau's stall. There, standing close to his patient's side, he would place his left hand on the colt's withers, his right hand on the smooth, black belly. For 20 minutes, horse and horse doctor would meditate in silent communion. "I don't go in much for talking to horses," said Brook. What he does, he explained, is "change nervous impulses," rejigger them until his patient...
...sons, Roy and Earle, could not agree on the future of the team, called all deals off and went home. As for the A's, they still had no home. ¶ At New Jersey's Garden State Park, Mrs. Russell A. Firestone's beautiful bay colt, Summer Tan, slogged through sloppy going in the Garden State Stakes, needed little help from Jockey Eric Guerin to win the world's richest ($269,965) horse race. Summer Tan's share of the purse: $151,095.75. ¶ At Harrisburg, Pa., a team of sharp Spanish riders...