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...quite accurate to say that George Stanley Halas invented pro football. He was, after all, only seven months old in 1895 when the first pro game was played. But after almost five decades as player, coach and owner, "Papa Bear" of the Chicago Bears does have a couple of impressive credits in the football record book. One is the longest run (98 yds.) with a recovered fumble (the fumbler: Jim Thorpe) in the history of the National Football League. Another is the National Football League...
...parade in verse (first printed below). With the horses running once again on Belmont's wide-sweeping mile-and-a-half oval, the longest in the U.S., even the jockeys and trainers were cheering. "Now we've got all the big races back where they belong," said Owner-Trainer E. Barry Ryan. "It's great to be home again...
...Eames, a turn-of-the-century American bibliographer. Piccus discovered that the old scrapbook contained a letter written by Netto in 1874. The Rio museum director included not only his translation of the Phoenician text but also a tracing of the original copy he had received from the plantation owner...
Could somebody unconnected with Fuller's stable have given Dancer's Image the drug-either purposely or mistakenly? Before last week's hearing, Owner Fuller complained of "gross negligence" in the security arrangements at Churchill Downs, and hinted: "Someone may have gotten to the horse." Although Fuller has received some hate mail lately-for donating $62,000 of Dancer's Image's winnings to Martin Luther King's widow-the idea that a stranger purposely drugged the horse is farfetched. Butazolidin is neither a stimulant nor a sedative; it cannot make a good race...
...with or mixed up with a specimen from some other horse? Kentucky's drug-testing methods came under severe attack at last week's hearing from Fuller and his attorney, Arthur Grafton. They questioned both the security in the laboratory and the accuracy of its analysis. When Owner Fuller demanded some of the specimen for an independent analysis, he was told, sorry, it had all been used in the original tests...