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...year-olds have been in the headlines as often as Jockey Earl Dew. Crowned U. S. riding champion of 1940, after nosing out another obscure 19-year-old named Walter Taylor on the very last day of the year, baby-faced Earl Dew was hailed as one of the most promising jockeys of his generation...
Last Sunday at Agua Caliente, the West Coast track where young Dew had won many a race, the management had arranged to present the champion with a gold watch, as a gala climax to the day's program. From the palatial stands the shrill yelling of 20,000 fans echoed through the mauve mountains, as field after field of selling platers pounded into the stretch...
...sixth race, a sudden hush fell on the stands. Rounding the turn, Bosca, the favorite, tripped. Two other horses piled on her. Bosca lay on the track dead, her neck broken. Her jockey was rushed away in an ambulance. It was Earl Dew. Before he could get his applause and his gold watch, Hero Earl Dew died of a fractured skull...
...rain followed eddying snow on the flat frozen prairie north of Detroit. It fell on the just and the unjust, and also on a 113-acre tract between Eleven and Twelve Mile Roads. There the rain, sifting through the steel skeleton of a sprawling, one-story building, gathered like dew on the rough jackets of workmen, stiffened red hands that had to be warmed up before the glowing maws of smoking salamanders. The rain did not slow up the work, any more than the snow had: on & on went the chatter of pneumatic hammers, the shouts of glaziers and concrete...
Next day, when Taylor narrowed his lead by one more, Dew decided he had seen enough of Florida. Promised nine mounts at Agua Caliente on Sunday, Dew flew back to California. While he was traveling, Taylor proceeded to pick up two wins, two more the following day. Dew won two races on Sunday while Taylor loafed. At week's end, with two more days to go, both riders were neck & neck, with just 285 wins apiece...