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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day the Pacific National Exhibition held its bathing beauty contest in Vancouver. Of 14 entrants, only three were Roman Catholics. The winner: Brunette Margaret Brain, 17, a Protestant (Church of England) from Prince Rupert...
Trainer Jimmy Jones was not as cocksure about Citation's chances as everybody else seemed to be. It was the Triple Crown winner's first major start since he pulled a muscle two weeks after the Stars & Stripes Handicap (TIME, July 19), and Trainer Jones figured that Citation was still "ten days away from his best race." The morning of the Derby, Jones warned Jockey Eddie Arcaro: "Watch out for Papa Redbird," the horse that had just won the Arlington Classic. To be on the safe side, Jones entered another Calumet horse, Free America, a big, flashy...
Seven-year-old Stymie, alltime top money winner ($911,335), fractured a bone in his right forefoot in July and has been "resting, just resting" since Trainer Hirsch Jacobs sent him to a Virginia farm. Armed, second money winner ($773,700), sprained his left foreleg last winter, lost some easy races, and was retired to Calumet Farm because Trainer Jones didn't want to see the seven-year-old "degraded." Assault was retired to stud (but proved impotent) after losing the Widener Handicap last February (TIME, March 1). Citation's victory last week put him ahead of Assault...
...Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill, Mass., Australia was matched with Czechoslovakia in the Davis Cup interzone finals. After 27 countries had been eliminated, the survivors were fighting for the right to challenge the U.S. (last year's winner) next fortnight. Missing were the top 1947 Australian Davis Cuppers: Dinny Pails had turned pro, and John Bromwich (who hates airplanes) had refused to fly to the U.S. Australia was counting on overage (35) Captain Adrian "Quist, the national singles champion...
...winner: a clerk in the British patent office...