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...Brien, who set a national scoring record of 2,618 points in a four-year career that still has 22 games to go. Little (5 ft. 9 in.) Center O'Brien broke the record of 2,592 held by Nate DeLong of Wisconsin State College. ¶Jockey Tony DeSpirito, who got back in the saddle again after a ten-day suspension, to ride 15 more winners and bring his season total to 385. With two days of the season left, DeSpirito was just three short of the record for winners in one year...
...newspapers that run his syndicated column, Walter Winchell has been having trouble. He is feuding with so many enemies-e.g., the New York Post ("New York Poo," "Postitute," "Compost"), Disk Jockey Barry Gray ("Borey Pink," "a disk jerk") and Columnist Leonard Lyons* ("author of the 'Liar's Den' "), that editors and readers outside Manhattan often don't know what Winchell is talking about. As a result, editors have been cutting or killing many of his columns. Last week Winchell announced a plan to stop the mayhem. He will set aside two days a week...
...County, 24 miles out of Cleveland, a stable of brood mares at Lexington, Ky., a training stable at Charlottesville, Va., and a plantation complete with game preserve at Thomasville, Ga. He rides to the hounds, shows his horses, is a member of the exclusive (50 members in the U.S.) Jockey Club. He is a vestryman of St. Hubert's Episcopal Chapel of Kirtland Hills, Ohio, not far from his estate. He centers most of his social life around his family and his hunting companions...
...Warning Wave. Down the backstretch, Native Dancer was an unimpressive fourth, seven lengths behind Laffango, winner of the one-mile Champagne Stakes. At the far turn, Jockey Eric Guerin asked the big (1,150 Ibs.) grey colt for action. As usual, the Dancer responded with a surge of power, and by midstretch he had put away the leaders. Although the colt likes to loaf once he gets in front, a» warning wave of Jockey Guerin's bat sent him winging under the wire in an excellent 1:44⅓The victory, worth $38,525, boosted Native Dancer...
...round decision over Argentina's Cesar Brion; in Madison Square Garden. ¶Pacer Good Time, a record-equaling (2:01) performance in his last race before going to stud; at Yonkers, N.Y. The victory, worth $6,750, increased Good Time's record earnings to $318,792.86. ¶Jockey Tony Despirito, 17, his 300th race this season, the eighth American rider ever to turn the trick; at Salem, N.H. Cf Australian Open Golf Champion Norman Von Nida, a playoff, 72-77, over the U.S.'s Ed ("Porky") Oliver, in the $7,840 Ampol Tournament; at Sydney...