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...expression of hope. Aside from the hunch players, the crowd had no more. Phil Drake had raced only twice, and won once; he went off at 100 to 8. The favorite, at 11-4, was Acropolis, a handsome colt owned by the grand old lady of English turf, Alice Lady Derby herself...
Marauding undergraduates from the University of Maryland invaded the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis one night last week and burned a great disfiguring M into the carefully tended turf of Thompson Stadium. No one got too fired up. The lacrosse game coming up between Navy and Maryland was sure to be a minor riot, anyway, and the predawn blaze seemed almost a proper ritual. Rules, referees and two centuries of civilization have failed to temper the spirited spring sport that white men learned from the American Indian...
...Thanks to Turf Columnist Evan Shipman's complaint, New York's Metropolitan Jockey Club belatedly arranged to televise its last race of the spring meeting: the $111,700 mile-and-a-furlong Wood Memorial. And thanks to the desperate courage of Belair Stud's big bay colt, Nashua, closing from behind in the final jump to nip Mrs. John W. Galbreath's Summer Tan by a neck, millions of televiewers saw a thriller...
Just for the fun of it one bright December morning in 1931, Pilot Officer Bader decided to buzz the officers' club at Woodley Aerodrome near Reading, rolled into the turf, and lost both legs as a result of the crash. But after eight difficult years spent learning to move skillfully on a pair of artificial legs, he was back in the R.A.F. as a fighter pilot, and during World War II Squadron Leader Bader personally accounted for 22½-German planes. His career became a British legend, faithfully recorded in Paul Brickhill's biography, Reach...
...such unlikely places as North Dakota's Billings County (at last count 380 farms, one general store, one gas station, no military installations and no industry-defense or otherwise). All of New York City was left open except Brooklyn, which was closed. "Brooklyn," said a man at the Turf Club bar on Flatbush Avenue, "is a very strategic place...