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...jockey with 301 victories in 1962, who says that he is "too old to care any more" about the U.S. riding title that he has won five times: New Jersey's $273,530 Garden State Stakes, richest horse race in the East, aboard George D. Widener's Crewman. Sent off by the bettors at 4-1, Crewman held the lead throughout the 1 1/16-mile race, romped to an easy six-length victory. Never Bend, the 1-2 favorite, finished a distant third. Shoemaker pocketed his 10% cut of the winner's $164,118 purse and went home...
...Crimson margin was so substantial by the final race, that Ford let his crewman, Dave Gantz, handle the tiller. Ed Lang and George Bartlett crewed for Harvard in "B" and "C" divisions...
...U.S.S. Bainbridge was steaming up the Yangtze River in 1912 when Commodore Mark Hersey got a desperate message to hurry below. He found a crewman with his fist in a hole in the side of the ship-holding back the Yangtze's waters. While scraping paint, the sailor had punched a hole clear through the tinny sides of America's first destroyer. Recalls Hersey: ''We stuffed a potato in the hole, covered it with concrete and prayed...
...gain a few precious seconds, his crewmen working like demons at the coffee-grinder winches. Each time, in the brutal test of skill and muscle, Mosbacher covered, instantly at first, and then more slowly as his crew began to tire. "We were doing him in," crowed an Aussie crewman...
Late one afternoon a crewman sighted five Turslops gilli (Pacific bottle-nosed porpoises) 500 yds. away. They moved slowly up the channel, making clicks that were clearly heard through the microphones. Apparently the porpoises located the barrier and did not like it. While still 400 yds. away from it, they moved over into shallow water and gathered in a tight little school. Then one of them separated from the group and cruised along the buoys. When the scout returned, a burst of whistling came through the microphones. Then another porpoise swam out to examine the barrier and returned...