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...never seen a crowd so big," said Eddie Arcaro, wondering at the 120,000 people who packed Churchill Downs' creaking grandstand. "I can't remember a Derby creating so much excitement...
...break, the experts started congratulating themselves. Never Bend was in front when the horses pounded past the grandstand; No Robbery was close alongside, and Candy Spots, a strong stretch runner, was rating easily in third. All through the long backstretch, they held those positions, opening up a huge gap on the rest of the field...
...shadows of Harvard's gracious Kindlestick Park grandstand moved swiftly across the infield grass, the Crimson baseball team ended seven innings of lethargy with a three-run explosion in the eighth to gain a 5-2 victory over Tufts yesterday. The lengthy game lasted three hours and seven minutes, making chilled sportswriters late for important dinner appointments...
...means that New Yorkers can watch a race on any day between Feb. 25, when the harness races started, to Dec. 7, when the thoroughbred season ends. Attendance at Yonkers Race way has averaged nearly 22,000 a night since Feb. 25, even though spectators sometimes had to build grandstand bonfires to keep warm. On a recent Saturday, 51,959 people bet $4,362,768 on the thoroughbreds at Aqueduct, contributed $500,000 toward balancing Governor Nelson Rockefeller's beleaguered budget...
...fire, to set salaries, even to design Packer uniforms. Once the whip was in his hand, he set it singing. "This is a violent sport," he told the Packers. "To play in this league, you've got to be tough -physically tough and mentally tough." He chased grandstand kibitzers off the training field, declared the rowdier Green Bay taverns off-limits, slapped $25 fines on players who showed up as little as one minute late for practice, $50 fines on those who broke his 11 p.m. training-camp curfew. He ordered injured Packers to run in practice...