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When bands are playing, the air is crisp, and thousands crowd into the stadium on a Saturday afternoon, a hundred-odd cross country harriers got many an unappreciated shin-splint pounding the turf along the Charles or in the grueling four-mile course at Franklin Park. Always an inconspicuous sport amidst the noise of the football season, and until yesterday the World Series, the Crimson harrier aggregation, nevertheless, within a short two-week practice period, managed to take second in the four-way meet last Friday, and promises to attract some attention in the sports arena this fall...
...could deny any longer that Assault, the Texas-bred chestnut with a clubfoot, had what it takes. His 1946 earnings of $339,720 were an alltime high for a one-year campaign. Victory in the Arlington (Ill.) Classic would make him the third biggest money winner in turf history...
...dark, cold, turf-walled farmhouse, Bjartur's wife lies dead in a pool of her own blood. The fire in the stove has gone out. The oil lamp is empty. On the bed, with only a half-starved dog to warm it, lies a newborn baby...
This year the Kentucky Derby's portly, 84-year-old impresario, Colonel Matt Winn, has upped the stakes from $75,000 to $100,000. But it is not the stakes alone that make the Derby indisputably the U.S. turf classic. Out-of-towners will blow about $8 million in Louisville this week-yet somehow the Derby manages to be the one event in the year when horse racing is least of all big business, and most of all sport. The Derby is Kentucky's great...
...always a pesky stumbling block. Byron Nelson had never won it, actually finished out of the money (worse than 16th) five years ago. In his jinx tourney last week, played on the country's third toughest course, Perfectionist Nelson slipped on an early 18-inch putt, blamed wet turf, then rolled flawlessly home with a winning 284. Nelson's most likely challenger was not present: a hit-'em-a-mile amateur, Army Lieutenant Gary Middlecoff, who burned up the fairways while on furlough last fall...