Word: tuneup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year, Whirly's distaste for crowds on the turns became more & more discouraging. Last fortnight, in the Blue Grass Stakes, traditional Derby preview, he was licked by Our Boots. Last week, four days before the Big Race, he was given another tuneup in the Derby Trial Stakes-only to be beaten by Blue Pair, a colt that cost $600 as a yearling. In desperation, Trainer Ben Jones got canny Eddie Arcaro, a genius at handling headstrong horses, to ride Whirlaway in the Derby...
...meet tonight is merely a tuneup encounter for the more important League duel with Navy at Annapolis this Saturday. It will be the first test of any sort for the Ulenmen this year...
...Oklahoma's solemn Don McNeill, U. S. Intercollegiate champion: the Meadow Club tennis tournament, major tuneup for the National Singles championship; defeating (6-4, 6-3, 6-3) California's frivolous Frank Kovacs, who had drubbed U. S. Champion Bobby Riggs in the semifinals; at Southampton, L. I. After the conventional handshake, Clown Kovacs got McNeill to join him in a characteristically irreverent Kovacs pose...
Last week, while sportswriters moaned "We wuz robbed." the prizefight fraternity wondered what effect Joe Jacobs' passing would have. With Arturo Godoy and Tony Galento in line for another shot at Joe Louis' crown (Galento is scheduled to meet Max Baer in a tuneup at Jersey City May 28), it looked as if Galento might drop out of the picture. In his crepe-draped saloon, Two-Ton Tony blubbered: "I can't go on widout...