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When is a Senate race??more than just a Senate race? When Democrats think they can score a trifecta by beating a Republican incumbent in the South, hobbling him as a possible presidential candidate and boosting the fortunes of one of their White House wannabes. That's the weighty challenge for novice politician Jim Webb, a decorated Vietnam vet and a senior Pentagon official under Ronald Reagan who is challenging Republican Senator George Allen in Virginia...
...laurel-leaf total at Olympia. Wherever and whenever the match, a crowd gathered to be entertained. So the evolution of Super Bowl Sunday was just a matter of time and technology, awaiting the installation of millions of television sets. Indeed, there are remarkable similarities between the first prehistoric foot race???undoubtedly enhanced by those who grunted their favorites on?and the game this corning Sunday...
...handily and, to the surprise of no one, was assigned the highest weight for his first handicap race???the Metropolitan. A pleasantly unswervable gentleman named John Blanks Campbell, veteran of 49 years at the tracks, enjoys the "dictatorial power to estimate the talents of horses at most of the big eastern race tracks and thereupon to garland each with an amount of weight theoretically calculated to make all the horses in a handicap race cross the finish line simultaneously. The idea for the Metropolitan was that Native Dancer should carry 130** and the next closest horse?Straight Face?should carry...
...years ago he stole another long race???the two-mile Jockey Club Gold Cup ?exactly the same way. But he isn't always the best rider on every horse. One very good one that he can't ride is Stymie, greatest of the money-earners (with $823,560). He once rode Stymie, whom he says he doesn't "fit," admitted that he must have looked like Ned the Coachman coming down the stretch...
Joie Ray, U.S. runner, shot from the starting line like a sprinter running a dash, circled five laps of Madison Square Garden without slackening. Behind him came three runners. Behind them came Nurmi. The crowd roared. Ray was the favorite. Was it not a ¾ mile race???his best distance? Had not his world's record (3 min. 5 sec.) stood unmenaced for eight years? On, on went Ray; he was two laps from the end, one lap. Then suddenly, soundlessly, a great wind passed him. Woefully he looked upon a pair of heels, the heels of Paavo Nurmi. Eight...
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