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...clubhouse at Florida's Hialeah race track, a breathless friend once greeted a reporter: "Say, I've just met Grantland Rice, the greatest guy you ever saw." "That," replied the reporter, "is the most unoriginal remark I've ever heard." In the fast, competitive world of sportswriting, where writers more often pan than praise each other, no one ever knocked courtly, gentle Henry Grantland Rice. In 53 years as a sports reporter, "Granny" Rice turned out more than 1,000,000 words of sports copy a year, plus hundreds of magazine articles and several volumes of verse...
Last week, about 700,000 Americans went to the races. In 1953 the turnout was 30 million in all. Around the calendar, rain or shine, there were 107 thoroughbred race tracks to go to?such huge showplace parks as Belmont. Hialeah and Santa Anita; such tradition-misted places as Kentucky's Churchill Downs, Maryland's Pimlico or upstate New York's Saratoga; such concrete-and-asphalt betting receptacles as New York's Jamaica and Aqueduct; dozens of obscure little tracks that horsemen call "bull rings." There were 50,000 registered thoroughbreds, at least half of them in racing training...
...Miami, Harry Guggenheim's Turn-to, an Irish-bred bay colt, ran away with Hialeah's $133,600 Flamingo Stakes, winning by 3½ lengths from eight other three-year-olds. Time for the mile-and-one-eighth: a fast-footed...
...racing is a mountain-horseman's answer to winter. For 15 years the ranchers in a 200-mile circle in western Wyoming and eastern Idaho have been holding rugged races over the snow, and they wouldn't trade them for all the flamingos at Miami's Hialeah. Their cutter is usually an old, lightweight sleigh stripped of its seats and fitted with polished steel runners. The ranchers hook their cutters to a pair of fast horses, climb aboard, and light out full tilt down a quarter-mile straightaway of hard-packed snow. Some drivers...
...locks," a judge's criticism of the brevity of drum-majorettes' costumes, and the tests of a new plane at Boeing Field. The federal tax paid by numbers racketeers was the leading subject in Cleveland one week, and Miami was recently discussing the record racing season at Hialeah. The talk in Oklahoma one week was the transfer of the 45th Infantry Division from Japan to Korea. Dallas discussed the tidelands oil fight and fretted over dust storms, and New Orleans deplored the poor weather for the Mardi Gras festival...