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West Virginia University has a funny-looking basketball team. In a sport where height pays off, it has only one player over 6 ft., Rudy Baric, right guard. Roger Hicks, left forward, is little larger or huskier than a jockey, while Scotty Hamilton, the other forward, is a real fat boy. Compared to most, Center Dick Kesling is virtually a runt. The team's gold-and-blue shirts have white jersey half-sleeves like those worn by British track athletes and give the impression that they were run up by the players' mothers or that the boys forgot...
...large field, even the smartest jockey cannot always keep a good horse from being pocketed or jostled. The 25,000 racing fans at Hialeah Park, more closely crowded than the horses, prepared for a rush-hour start-it was necks and rumps, then necks and necks. On the far turn the horses were bunched like a hand of bananas. Coming into the stretch, the first ten could have been covered with a blanket. But the favorites were too near the stem. Market Wise, the people's choice, got lost in the early shuffle...
...stretch run that looked like Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair, & floppy-eared chestnut pulled farther & farther in front. It was Mrs. Payne Whitney's The Rhymer, a four-year-old who-despite the fact that he was ridden by Eddie Arcaro, smartest jockey in the business-had been listed among "the field" in the pari-mutuel betting.-At the finish line The Rhymer was a head in front of Best Seller, a 58-to-1 shot. Third was Olympus, another "field horse...
...handsome John Gaver, Mrs. Whitney's college-bred trainer, who got a $5,000 bonus for saddling the winner. Gaver had had no intention of starting The Rhymer in such fast company. But when Samuel Riddle's War Relic was scratched the day before the race, leaving Jockey Eddie Arcaro without a mount, Gaver decided to take a chance. "It goes to show," said he, "that if you don't aim at the moon once in a while, you'll never...
...Said Jockey Arcaro: "I said this morning I hoped the best horse wouldn't win and it didn...