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...rare occasion that brings Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, 93, out for a black-tie evening, but he wanted the pleasure of presenting the President's Citation of the People-to-People Sports Committee to "a little girl" he used to know. She was Joan Whitney Payson, 60, co-owner of Greentree Stable and fairy grandmother of the New York Mets baseball team. The first woman recipient of the Citation admitted a penchant for athletes "with two or four feet," but as for herself, well, she was "strictly a spectator sport." Then, as flashbulbs popped, the "little girl" filed...
...starts, he had never been beaten. "I've got the right horse," said his jockey, Willie Shoemaker, who had ridden six of the nine entries. But for the first time that anybody could remember, there were two undefeated horses in the field. Eastern money was on Joan Whitney Payson's No Robbery, who had won all five of his races by a minimum of 2½ lengths. Then there was Captain Harry Guggenheim's Never Bend, the richest horse of all, a dark bay with $502,484 in his bankroll. At post time, Candy Spots...
...failed to touch either first or second base. But all that was going to change this year. The lineup was full of fierce young rookies, Oldtime Slugger Duke Snider (389 lifetime homers) was on hand from the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Mets' owner, Mrs. Joan Whitney Payson, felt pretty optimistic. "I simply cannot stand 120 losses this year," she said. "If we can't get anything, we are going to cut those losses down-at least...
...finish line 500 yds. ahead of Connecticut's Johnny Kelley, the 1957 winner. > No Robbery: the $90,800 Wood Memorial, at New York's Aqueduct race track. Taking command at the start of the 1⅛-mile race, the undefeated bay colt belonging to Mrs. Joan Whitney Payson, owner of the oft-defeated New York Mets, bore out on the stretch turn, still romped to a two-length victory that ran his record to five straight, stamped him as a strong contender-along with Rex Ellsworth's Candy Spots and Harry Guggenheim's Never Bend...
Winging into St. Petersburg with parasol at the ready, Major Stockholder Joan Whitney Payson joined Manager Charles Dillon Stengel for baseball's least auspicious event of the week: the launching of the National League's fledgling New York Mets. Asked if he thought he could alchemize a champion from the best dross that Whitney money could buy, Casey instinctively retorted: "I expect to win every day." Then, from the most voluble player in the league came an uncharacteristic halt in the Mach 2 verbiage. "Maybe," sighed Casey, "I'll be shell-shocked...