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Before the second heat of the race (at a mile-and-a-sixteenth), Verhurst was asked whether he had bet on his horse. Said Verhurst: "Hell, no. She's liable to lose." This time Verhurst was right. Proximity lost by a neck to Demon Hanover, won $1,500 second place money. Verhurst seemed almost pleased: "There, see, I told you she'd lose." It was Proximity's second defeat in 14 heats this year...
When he began digging the well under Brooklyn's Sixteenth Avenue Garage, brawny, heavy-shouldered Dominick Atteo took all the short cuts he could. He had done hundreds of such sweaty, commonplace jobs, and all the garage owner wanted was a hole to supply water for car washing during the New York water shortage. At 50, Dominick had six children and a pretty auburn-haired wife, and had to stretch dollars as far as they would...
...facts & figures. Though one-room schools have been folding up at the rate of twelve a day for 30 years, there are still 75,000 left. They account for nearly one-half of all U.S. public-school buildings, employ one-twelfth of U.S. teachers, have an enrollment of one-sixteenth (1,500,000) of U.S. schoolchildren...
...With Jockey Eddie Arcaro holding him close to the rail, he took the lead at the head of the stretch, went on to win the $49,050 Wood Memorial in a closing rush. Hill Prince's time of 1:43.6 for the mile-and-a-sixteenth Wood was the second fastest on record (fastest: Count Fleet's 1:43 in 1943). Arcaro kept Hill Prince moving after the finish, worked the bay the full Derby distance of a mile-and-a-quarter. The time: a smashing 2:02.4. Only two Derbies have been run faster...
...away with the six-furlong Experimental Free Handicap No. 1 at Jamaica a fortnight ago (TIME, April 17), a lot of people besides his jockey, Eddie Arcaro, were impressed. Last week the customers made him a 1-to-2 favorite in the second Experimental at a mile and a sixteenth. A victory at that distance would be proof that Hill Prince was something more than just a fine sprinter. Proof was deferred. Moving up at the five-sixteenths pole, Hill Prince scraped the rail, lost his stride, found himself hopelessly blocked by the laggards at the head of the stretch...