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...entrance fee, each racer receives a map of the course and an identification number to keep him from cheating. Stationary and floating checkers use the numbers to identify any racer who hitches a ride on a truck or takes a short cut. If a racer is missed at any point along the course, no prize...
...else interests me. Stick with me, bet within your means, and you'll have fun." One afternoon last week, Alf gave the clubhouse punters three successive winners: Elladora, a 6-to-1 shot; Grand Statute, a 10-to-1 surprise; and Running Water, a 3-to-1 stake racer that survived a tough stretch battle and a foul claim to take the purse. A ?1 ($2.80) parlay on the three paid $862.40. It was almost too much for one conservative gentleman. "From now on," said he, as he tried to revive himself...
...yard backstroke race, Steve Singer matched the Yale swimmer stroke for stroke, touching the finishing line within a half inch. The first place judge picked the Yale swimmer while the second place judge named Ginsburg winner. The decision was ultimately made by the timer who favored the Pierson racer. Singer did the distance in 29.9 and Ginsburg placed third...
Next morning at 8, the President, a road-racer's gleam in his eye, took the wheel again and sped away through dun-colored hills. Official chauffeurs in the convoy crossed themselves and followed. But it was ideal driving: troops patrolled the highway (particularly guarding bridges) and kept all other traffic backed up at side roads...
...works to audiences all over the U.S., inveighed against the "shoddy and jaded intellectualism" of most modern poets, called instead for "instances of beauty that make mankind feel well and hopeful about life." Died. August S. Duesenberg, 75, builder (with his brother Fred) of the famed luxury automobiles and racers that bore his name; of a heart ailment; in Camby, Ind. First manufactured in 1911. the Duesenberg racer dominated the Indianapolis Speedway 500-mile race throughout the 1920s From 1929 until 1937, when the Depression killed the demand for high-priced cars ($13,000 and up), the rakish silhouette...