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...outsider, was in front. Past the grandstand on the first time around, Gregalach, the Irish gelding who won in 1929, was leading, with Delaneige second, Forbra, 50-to-1 winner in 1932, a close third and Golden Miller, going easily, just behind. The field narrowed in the straightaway and made for the Canal Turn, the horses tiring now and their riders, in bright silks, holding them in for the high thorn hedge and water at Valentine's Brook. Unlike most Grand Nationals, last week's was run on a fair day: most of the crowd saw what happened...
...then Bonthron followed him. With two laps to go, Venzke caught up with Cunningham and passed him. Half a lap before the end of the race, Cunningham repassed Venzke. Bonthron started his sprint coming around the last turn. He passed Venzke on the outside and started down the straightaway toward the tape, four yards behind Cunningham. Thirty yards from the tape, the gap began to melt. The finish duplicated the finish of the first race, except that the judges decided that this time not Bonthron but Cunningham was inches in front. Venzke again was a stride behind. The time...
...runaway boy's adventures among the tramps of the English countryside, the down-&-outers of London, Jack Robinson really has two narrators: the unthinking but observant boy, the almost too reflective man he afterwards becomes. Without these sessions of sad, silent thought, Jack Robinson would be a straightaway racy tale, un hampered by moral or intellectual baggage, in the fine old tradition of Tom Jones itself...
...over the cattle guard and the culvert over the first irrigation ditch. Over a second, third and fourth, all graded as the ditch beds are above the valley here. Now to step on it. First mile gone, slow down for another grade culvert, the second mile nearly a straightaway. Indian wagon raising an infernal dust is soon past. A glance to the left at the sun setting over cotton fields and scattered palms, bare purple mountains in the distant background. She's doing 58. Cut the gas for the turn into the irrigation plant enclosure. No pump Diesels throbbing...
...lean, blond, curly-headed Charley Parsons-son of Coach Dean Cromwell's college and teammate Charles B. Parsons-needed was a fifth place in the six-man race. The runners crouched at the start. The field spread going away from the mark and drove into the straightaway with Howard Jones of Penn ahead and Robert Kane of Cornell at his elbow. They were placed in the same order at the finish, with Parsons close behind for the third place that gave U. S. C. two more points than it needed for the championship-45 to Stanford...