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...from the maisons de haute couture run the gauntlet of admiring eyes, and bettors can be heard exchanging tips on both in Urdu, Sudanese, Hindustani or Cambodian. But from under the toppers and turbans in the grandstand comes only an occasional listless Allez! or Vite!; it is across the turf on the grassy reaches of Longchamp's infield that the passion of Parisian racing is concentrated...
Eliot House rolled up an impressive 26 to 6 victory over a light Leverett football squad yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field, while on the adjoining turf Adams walloped Lowell...
...grass of the fenced-in practice field is beginning to get threadbare, but the Stadium turf looks smooth and lush. The Building and Grounds Department has a small squad prettying up the area and wiring it for sound in preparation for the Saturday homecoming...
When you think of Columbia's Lon Little-coached football teams, which have been furrowing the Baker Field turf for the last 19 years, you think of the Luckmans, the Kusserows, the Swiackis. That's why the present Little eleven, which meets Harvard in New York tomorrow, is so unusual...
...aging and ailing champions, Assault and Stymie, in Aqueduct's Edgemere Handicap. Assault, fourth-highest moneywinner in turf history ($672,520), closed gamely despite a patched-up leg and finished third. Stymie, still the world's top moneywinning horse ($911,335), was rapturously applauded as he went to the paddock for his first race since he was retired with a cracked sesamoid bone 14 months ago. After finishing dead last, Stymie was still cheered. In keeping with the quaint custom at New York tracks, the boos were for Jockey Eddie Arcaro, who rode My Request, the winner...