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...useful sprinter named Big Rush romped off with the fifth race at California's Del Mar race track one day last week and paid $15.70 for $2. Even those outdoor investors who had backed the wrong horse cheered the result. For Johnny Longden, the wrinkled little jock on board the winner, had just won his 4,8705th race and thus tied Sir Gordon Richards' alltime record for riding race winning thoroughbreds. Less than two hours later, Johnny won again. He picked up a big horse named Arrogate and heaved him under the wire...
Last weekend Captain Ludington won "Jock" Whitney's Greentree Tourney at Manhasset, L.L., for college players, although all other Crimson entrants, including Stanley Yassukovich and Dave Olyphant, did not go past the quarter-finals...
Died. Arthur Ernest ("Jock") Tiffin, 60, head, since June, 1955, of Britain's largest (1,300,000) and most influential labor union, the Transport and General Workers' Union; of cancer; in London...
...already ridden 385 winners. He is an odds-on favorite to wind up the year as the country's leading jockey. More impressive still, he has drawn a bead on the 400 victory mark, a record broken only by Willie Shoemaker (with 485 in 1953), the only jock to outscore Hartack for the last two years...
Skymotive is the idea of John P. ("Jock") Henebry, who was a colonel in the Army Air Forces during World War II, was the youngest (then 32) general when he went back into service during the Korean war. Between wars, he opened a plane repair station at O'Hare Field in 1946; in the same year, the Government deeded land around his station to Chicago for use as a municipal airport (to begin scheduled passenger airline operations late this month, relieving Chicago's Midway Airport, and eventually to be the world's biggest). Many of Henebry...