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...Over here, the Dancer's reputation had preceded him, and he was no stranger . . . There is an old saying here that "Everyone is equal both on and under the turf" (meaning that everyone is equal at the races
...horse for the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, a one-and-a-half-mile race at Ascot in July, which would mix the Dancer with the best on the other side of the Atlantic. At Ascot, the Dancer would have to race clockwise instead of counterclockwise, on turf instead of dirt, on a course that runs irregularly instead of on a neat, flat oval. The last bend of Ascot's "old mile" rises more than 40 feet in three furlongs. To run the course's ups & downs, a horse must be able to accelerate, slow down, accelerate...
...Sydney, Australian Sprint Champion Hector Hogan, 22, raced 100 yards over close-cropped turf in 9.3 seconds to equal the world record set (on cinders) by California's Mel Patton...
...know what he was doing. Surely it was not to test the wind velocity as he never looked up at his extended hand. Certainly it was not to detect the moisture on his finger tips from the blades of grass. If it were just to detect the type of turf and the footing why the extended hand? Also we saw no motions between the young scientist (?) and the press box. I realize Harvard has a School of Mines but surely he was not looking for uranium in the Yale Bowl. Incidentally, one of his observations was at the exact spot...
Ponies & Heavyweights. As the Texas Christian players picked themselves off the turf after the Spartans' 19-point explosion, they might well have asked the old question: "What happened?" What happened essentially was that T.C.U. ran head-on into the Biggie Munn method: throw in plenty of fresh, first-class players. Munn uses a fast, "pony" backfield to run the enemy ragged, then bowls them over with hard-charging heavyweights. Even in the new era of limited substitutions (which Munn, an old friend of two platoons, deplores), Michigan State uses 35 or 40 almost equally proficient men a game...