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...five tune-up fights since getting out of the service. ... I scored five knockouts. So what happens? Some guy refers to 'em as Larry Laydowns. What did you fellows want me to do ... fight Joe Louis the minute I took off my uniform...
...Final tune-up for the Crimson before the annual B.A.A. Games early next month, will be a dual meet with Phillips Andover Academy at Andover a week from tomorrow...
Trial at Jamaica. Last week 25,000 turned out to watch the Count run in the Wood Memorial, Long Island's traditional Derby preview. Few days before, in a tune-up race (his 1943 debut) on a sloppy track, he had proved that he could run in any kind of going. This time, against the cream of the three-year-old crop and despite a gashed hind leg, he really showed his class. From the time he entered the backstretch, where he overtook Blue Swords, his chief rival, he made the race a runaway. His time (1:43 flat...
...Automan Charles T. Fisher's Amber Light, winner of a Derby tune-up at Churchill Downs last week...
...grip like a baseball player's. Last year Segura was long on crowd appeal but short on court tactics. This summer, after seasoning on the grapefruit circuit, he won four clay-court tournaments in a row. Little Pancho can play on grass too. Last week at Longwood (last tune-up before the National), his tricky trapshots clouted his confounded opponents right through the final, where he licked Gardnar Mulloy...