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...Plaut pored over his form charts for 1920-Man o' War's big year-and came up with a 1920 Yardstick. Said he, reverently: "There never was a year like it." Plaut put a staggering 144 lbs. on the late, great "Big Red" (then came John P. Grier, 126; On Watch, 123; Upset, 122; Wildair...
...proud bearing and his showmanship set him apart from the pack. As a three-year-old, he did not run in the Kentucky Derby (in fact, he never ran a race in his native state), but he won the Belmont by 20 lengths. One good horse, John P. Grier, made Red extend himself one day at Aqueduct, and nobody who saw the race will ever forget it. The pair of them ran nose-&-nose, breaking world's records at every furlong pole along the way (the five furlongs in 157 2/5, the six furlongs in 1:09, the mile...
...wasn't. A flick of the whip brought him on again, across the line almost two lengths ahead. John P. Grier was never the same again...
Promoters of this huge program are Major General Edwin P. Parker Jr., 52, who makes his staff desk-warmers go through a cross-country run and obstacle race once a week, and one of his battalion commanders, Lieut. Colonel James L. Grier. A onetime West Point boxer, Colonel Grier started the program by rounding up 800 pairs of boxing gloves, showing his troops how to use them...
Says Lieut. Colonel Grier: "The mission of combat soldiers is to close with the enemy. Every man has a fear of the unknown and if he does not know what physical combat is he will fear it. Mass boxing overcomes this natural reluctance...