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Close Calls. In Goshen. Ind.. Walter Call was arrested for driving without a license, so Mrs. Call took the wheel, promptly plowed into the rear of the police car at a traffic light, was arrested for driving with defective brakes...
...muffled rhythm of trotters' hoofs is daily music in little Goshen, N.Y., but the howling of hot-dog hawkers is heard only once a year-the day of the Hambletonian. Last week the hawkers were in raucous full cry for the Kentucky Derby of harness racing...
Even though the race was as much of a foregone finish as any horse race can be, some 14,000 fans were on hand. One of the biggest purses ($51,046.96) in the 20 years of the Hambletonian (14 times at Goshen) was at stake. A record 19 entries were in the field. But everyone knew that 18 of them scarcely had a chance against Titan, the trim cherry bay colt with the proud Hanover name, who trotted a record-breaking two-minute mile as a two-year-old last year. His driver was a champ too: gum-chewing Brooklyn...
Faced with such an odds-on favorite (1-to-4), cagey Bill Cane, the straw-hat host at Goshen's Good Time Park, persuaded the State Harness Racing Commission to let him bar Titan from the betting. Denied the right to gamble on a sure thing, betters merely nibbled at the rest of the field, sending $15,000 less through the mutuel machines than last year. Then, more or less reconciled to what was almost objective sport, they settled down to watch Titan's free-wheeling spin, in a setting out of Currier & Ives. Titan, whose owners picked...
...Goshen's well-to-do E. Roland Harriman, co-owner with Major Elbridge Gerry (now overseas), got the one-year custodianship of the gallon-sized Hambletonian "cup," and a pint-sized replica for keeps. These he probably valued more than Titan's $27,608.33 share of the purse, which he needs less than Titan needs...