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Died. Reginald William Rives, 86, leading figure in the dying patrician sport of coaching, member of the Coaching Club since 1883; in Manhattan. Stubborn Socialite-Horseman Rives resisted vigorously as newfangled horseless carriages crowded coaches off the streets, won a 1906 lawsuit in which he charged that an auto had ruined the nerves of one of his horses. He became a gallant last-survivor of the era of beaver hats and smartly tooled four-in-hands...
...costs about $2 a day to keep a dog (one-sixth of what it costs to keep a race horse), and at the season's end the dog-man's profit-&-loss statement is usually a lot healthier than the horseman's. In the British Isles, where horse racing most wears the airs of pageantry, the dogs are not merely yipping at the horse's heels but are far out front. There, a whopping $800 million a year is bet at 222 dog tracks, and the dogs are not only a national pastime but a national...
Died. Major General Alexander Day Surles, 61, leathery, bowlegged ex-cavalryman who ran the Army's Bureau of Public Relations from 1941 to 1945; of a pulmonary ailment; in Washington. Tethered to the Pentagon after 34 years of service, mostly with tactical outfits, Old Horseman Day Surles champed at the bit all through World War II, did his creditable best with the vast, tape-tangled B.P.R., silently took the rap for many a public relations bungle by underlings and superiors...
...never quite forgiven himself for losing another King Ranch horse, Stymie. His trainer, Max Hirsch, entered Stymie in a $1,500 claiming race. Wily Horseman Hirsch Jacobs, who had correctly sized up Stymie's potential worth, claimed him. Stymie has since won $816,060 for Jacobs. The cream-and-brown King Ranch racing colors have won all but a few of the nation's major racing classics, including the Santa Anita Derby, the Preakness, the Belmont Stakes, the Saratoga Special, a score of others. Trainer Hirsch summed up what Kleberg was trying to do: "Either Assault or Stymie...
...Third Horseman (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Third in a series of five documentaries on the world food crisis. Guest speaker: General Lucius Clay...