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...hitting on the breaks. The Boston professional mud-slingers demand that the Big. Three subsidize football players; actually what these bright columnists need is a few whacks with a ring post. It would be the only way to make an impression on their tough skulls. Colonel Dave (Boston Biowtorch) Egan is an old standby in the axe-grinding business, and his newest disciple is Bill Cunningham of the Boston Post. What a strange pair of bedfellows they make...
...Dick Harlow. The newest angle to be played up for a local consumption is the likening of Coach Frank Leahy of Boston College to the immortal Knute Rockne (Leahy's team accomplished the stupendous feat of beating Tulane, which has yet to win its first game this year). Dave Egan was only groping around in the dark last spring, letting loose an occasional blast at Harvard, but this fall he found the nice-sounding rallying point he was looking for. Extensive research convinced him that Harvard was lowering the standard of all New England football--even the Johnny-cakes...
...eyed Spencer Scott, trained and driven by foxy, old Fred Egan, was no great shakes as a two-year-old. But this year, thanks to careful nursing of his weak hocks. Baby (as he is known around the barns) outstepped his rivals in three of the four major tune-ups for the Hambletonian: Indianapolis' Stallion Stake, Toledo's Matron Stake and Narragansett's National Stake. At Goshen last week Fred Egan's Baby did not let his followers down. He made a runaway of the first heat, crossed the finish line (half a length in front...
...second heat, Baby had things his own way from start to finish. Favored with the rail position (because of his victory in the first heat), he got in front fast and stayed there-Driver Egan looking as unruffled as though he were out for a morning brush. But when they reached the wire (in 2:03), 60-year-old Fred Egan let out a moppet's yell. After trying twelve times, he had won his first Hambletonian...
Sharing Driver Egan's joy was Owner Charles W. Phellis, retired Du Pont bigwig, who has raised trotters for 40 years, has had four previous starters in the Hambletonian (entry fee for each starter is around $1,000). Spencer Scott brought him his first victory...