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...gave his backers a run for their money. One summer, at Detroit, he won three races within eight days. One winter at Tropical Park he ran off with the Christmas, New Year's and Orange Bowl Handicaps on successive Saturdays. Cincinnati fans will never forget the day he outran Seabiscuit in a race at River Downs. But the biggest kick he ever gave his admirers was his performance in the Rhode Island Handicap at Narragansett Park four years ago. Setting the pace for famed War Admiral, Kentucky Derby winner the previous year, he rewrote the script by holding...
...track fans who crammed into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week for the National A.A.U. championships saw Leslie MacMitchell (TIME, Dec. 1) lose his first mile in 20 starts. The man who outran him, bespectacled, 23-year-old Gilbert Dodds of Falls City, Neb., had never run a big-time mile before...
...slalom, the U.S. team had an overwhelming favorite: bespectacled, oak-legged Marilyn Shaw, 17-year-old daughter of the owner of the general store at Stowe, Vt. At 15 she outran a crack field that included famed Betty Woolsey, once ranked among the world's first ten woman skiers. Last year Miss Shaw waltzed off with the ladies' U.S. slalom championship...
...Belmont Park last week, New York race-goers saw two records broken.. In the Jockey Club Gold Cup, Louis Tufano's three-year-old Market Wise, who raced last fall as a cheap selling plater, outran mighty Whirlaway, skimmed two miles in 3 min., 20 4/5 sec. to break by a full second the North American record set by the great Exterminator in 1920. Four days earlier, in a match between two of the outstanding two-year-olds of the year, Mrs. Albert Sabath's Alsab, in beating Ben Whitaker's Requested, ran 6½ furlongs...
...Blonde), who ran away with the rich Santa Anita Derby last February. At 8-to-1 were Texan Robert Kleberg's Dispose, big horse of Florida's winter season, and J. Frederick Byers' Robert Morris, a 200-to-1 shot in the winter books-before he outran half a dozen older horses in the Excelsior Handicap at Jamaica last fortnight...