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Longden's last ride came to a classic happy ending. First time past the grandstand in the 1¾-mi. race, George Royal was running dead last. But The Pumper went to work. Looping the field on the final turn, he whipped George Royal into the lead, kept him there to win by a nose. The victory was worth $75,000 to George Royal's owner and $7,500 to Longden. But it was Johnny's last purse as a jockey. "I'm hanging up my tack," he announced. And so ended 44 years of riding...
...malevolent giggling from the wings. But does conservative journalism have no more than this to offer? Apparently that question has also occurred to the editors of the Conservative, for they have put out a most un-Review like edition. Much sweat and blood, and very few raspberries from the grandstand...
...line of local chorus girls. Sometimes the whole show was included in the dollar-odd price of admission, right along with the exhibition barns and the competition sheds full of fancy needlework and loganberry jam. At other fairs, an additional couple of dollars per head were charged for the grandstand entertainment, but it was usually a loss leader...
...Ohio State Fair, which had been running the grandstand in the red for years, dropped $80,000 in 1956 and was about to give up. But it was talked into gambling one last time the following year-with Roy Rogers. Rogers, gambling himself, signed a no-guarantee contract, giving the fair the first $10,000 and 25% of the rest. He left town with $84,000. That was the big breakthrough for big-name headliners at the fairs. In time, Rogers was bringing in so much profit that his take ranged up to $234,000 for ten nights...
...where it is practically impossible to reach pitches before they break), has a hitch in his swing, hits off his forward foot, regularly swings at the first pitch, is a notorious bad ball hitter. "I've seen Hank hit pitches right off his ear into the rightfield grandstand," says Pittsburgh's Bob Friend. Another opposition pitcher once complained: "The last two pitches I threw at Aaron's head, he hit out of the park...