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With a warm sun beating down on the Soldiers Field turf, Coach Jaako Mikkola yesterday afternoon officially raised the curtain on the 1941 outdoor track season by running off the filed events of the University Handicaps. This afternoon the Handicaps continue with the track events starting at 2:30 o'clock...
...Stahley was made backfield coach under Harrlow for four years, but previous to that the young and popular Penn State graduate held down the Freshman coaching job, and was known and respected from Wigglesworth to Hollis for his ability to drive the Yearlings almost into the Soldiers Field turf and still make them like...
...storybook career, the patched-up cripple, after a year's retirement, came back last March to win the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, won it in the record- breaking time of 2 min., 1⅓ sec., and boosted his lifetime winnings to $437,730, highest in turf history...
...Biscuit tried to take a bite out of Sculptor Wheeler's $25,000 job. But at the unveiling ceremony next day, Seabiscuit behaved with poise befitting a guest of honor. He listened to his encomiums, whinnied with nervous embarrassment while President Leigh Battson of the Los Angeles Turf Club read a poem written by Sportswriter Grantland Rice...
...unveiling ceremony, the crowd dispersed to get their bets down for the first race-$10,000 worth. Then they waited for the bugle to call the horses to the track. They waited, and waited-ten minutes, 20 minutes, 40 minutes, 50 minutes. Finally the loudspeaker spoke: "The Los Angeles Turf Club wishes to announce that it is in no way responsible for the conditions existing today and therefore it is canceling today's program. A quarrel among the grooms of two stables . . . precipitated a strike of all grooms on the grounds...