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...Coronado's Children, The Voice of the Coyote) picked up Ben Lilly's trail back in 1928, when he met the 20th Century Davy Crockett in El Paso, read two chapters of his never-completed autobiography and listened to such Thoreau-like observations as "Property is a handicap to man." After Ben died in 1936. at 79, Dobie started back-trailing on his life in an effort to flush the truth out of the thicket of legend which had grown up around his name. The result is a briery, humor-speckled portrait of a roughhewn U.S. eccentric...
Forty-two students entered. Winners in other handicap classes were Vaclav E. Benes '50, George E. Salser '52, and Jack Brode '52. Hart won a Dawes racing bike for his workout, given free by the Bicycle Exchange along with runner-up prizes...
Hardest stretch in the 17-mile course is the pull up and over Chestnut Hill. Balloon-tired bikes may have difficulty making that one, but they will be given a 20-minute handicap...
Coach Kee insists that his pupils follow a rigorous training routine which includes running seven miles a day, racing frequently and climbing mountains to develop wind. He thought he knew why his boys had beaten the best marathoners in the U.S. Said Coach Kee: "The automobile is the biggest handicap for American runners...
When three-year-old Hill Prince, top-flight Kentucky Derby hopeful, ran away with the six-furlong Experimental Free Handicap No. 1 at Jamaica a fortnight ago (TIME, April 17), a lot of people besides his jockey, Eddie Arcaro, were impressed. Last week the customers made him a 1-to-2 favorite in the second Experimental at a mile and a sixteenth. A victory at that distance would be proof that Hill Prince was something more than just a fine sprinter. Proof was deferred. Moving up at the five-sixteenths pole, Hill Prince scraped the rail, lost his stride, found...