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William C. Murphy of Aurora Illinois, was named winner of the $25 Coolidge price given annually to the Freshmen giving the best speech of the tournament...
...hung up his tack, 17-year-old Johnny Oros did not grow up on horseback, like most jockeys. Until four years ago the nearest he came to a horse was the shanks' mare on which he used to deliver groceries for his father's little emporium in Aurora, Ill. When Father Oros decided to trade his grocery store for a stable of third-rate thoroughbreds, Johnny learned to ride a horse...
Last spring young Oros rode his first winner-at the Aurora race track. This winter, still an "apprentice," he outrode his most experienced rivals at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans, then moved on to Bowie to lead the field there as well. Last week, on closing day at Bowie, Jockey Oros put on as exciting a show for Maryland racegoers as Don Meade had ever given Hialeah patrons. With a leg up on six mounts, he won three races (including the Daily Double), finished in the money with the other three. His triple brought lis string of victories...
Hailed last week as the "Aurora Flash" and sought as a contract rider, baby-faced Johnny Oros, as bashful and unsophisticated as Don Meade is arrogant and wise, rebelled at his first interview. "Aw shucks," said he. "There ain't any mystery about me or my riding. I don't use no special tricks. I don't whisper no sweet words in the horse's ear. I just sit up there and hang...
Eighteen months ago Melvin G. Attig, 26, a high-school teacher in Aurora, Ill. ignored the advice of his principal and friend, took a job as high-school principal in nearby Oswego, Ill. (pop. 1,200). He knew that it was no sinecure, for many Oswegans were angry over removal of his predecessor, but he did not know it was a killing...