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...Harvard coach John Yovicsin was making his first appearance before the masses Saturday afternoon, and Bill Veeck, who had once offered Yovicsin the chance to earn a little money in his spare time, was interested in letting him know that Suffolk Downs still cared for him. Veeck, a sports entrepreneur who has contributed such diversions as the exploding scoreboard to American society, had hired two single-engine planes to fly over the Stadium bearing long streamers with messages to Yovicsin as well as to the fans...
...were becoming disgusted. After all, here was a school that was playing before the largest audience in its history, and it wouldn't let the Crimson past midfield until the airplanes had gone home and the Harvard Band was polishing off the remains of its box lunches. If Bill Veeck was listening to the game on radio, he was loving it. Turn down Suffolk Downs, and it can be arranged that you lose for the second year in a row to a college that has a trolley line running through the middle of its campus...
...Harvard, picked up an acceptable 28-7 triumph over the locals, and Yovicsin surpasses Percy Haughton's record for most career victories as a Harvard coach. That's a little more satisfying than arranging Kasanof Bakery Day at Suffolk Downs, which would have been Yovicsin's other job. Veeck, you see, doesn't quite understand the necessity of keeping the romanticism alive in your life...
...spring the sunshine, and the better horses come up from Florida. Suffolk Downs will open on April 4 this year. A few subway stops on the MBTA beyond Airport, the Downs offers the best in New England racing. Last year Bill Veeck of St. Louis Browns fame staged the longest and biggest ($200,000 added) turf race in America, Veeck also gave away prizes to the fans- a steer, a horse, champagne, and free dinners at MacDonalds...
...Veeck said yesterday, "We regret that Mr. Yovicsin won't be abailable. We regret the Harvard has put him in a position where he is unable to accept...