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footing Star SPORTS V A-12 WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1956 f|L !§? > > >vjlfplraE a k I ;'!'' ¦P*<| gw ’|'s*' East, Midwest, Coast Fans ¦L * *«| : : . HF Bp V v 1 ’ ¦ CM hM JH »¦ "'jpfe Viewing SIOO,OOO Races *** pA-J v < ®IS* • Mj«9I. *3 ' ' Meeting 'w mill HBlk wki~ Jp 9BHH^HrMv Swaps Nashua Odds-On s lm : ~ BS| Fabius-Swoon's Son Battle ' IBH V ». Six Threats in Expected at Arlington Park Against 8 Rivals Gold Cup'Cap CHICAGO, July 14 (IP). —E. 112 pounds with all the others At Monmouth weighted at 117. July Gay Drake’s Swoon’s Son, win- < INGLEWOOD. Calif.. 14 highly-rated OCEANPORT, N. J„ July 14 BT/\ \ \ \ ' season, Another con- < (fl*).—The backed Swaps i ner of four starts this \ :>t»i«fait ,’Vyf heavily tender besides Doubledogdare is UP).—Nashua was a prohibitive i\ -! ¦ ' ;i faced threatening field of six yv-i .v '«. a shoots for No. 5 today in the C. V. Whitney’s Head Man. V S B£ VA something of a jinx overnight favorite at about 2 rivals—and SIOO,OOO-added Arlington Classic Rounding out the field are today in the SIOO,OOO-added to 5 to beat eight rivals today but he’ll have Fabius, Walmac Farm’s The Warrior; Hollywood Gold Cup Handicap. to beat in the SIOO,OOO-added : Calumet’s ace, to accomplish the G.&M. Stable’s Ben A. Jones; Monmouth was running of This the 17th feat. Reverie Knoll Farm’s Royal Park Handicap. the Gold Cup and only three Fabius, Kentucky Sting, and Mrs. Ada L. Rice's top drawing high weight who beat A card wherever times before had the Derby Flight History. races, unpredictable in the field the guaranteed winner Needles in the he the mil- won Preakness, expected The Arlington track is ex- lionaire was making SIOO,OOO. is to rule a 1 his first slight favorite, especially pected to be fast and should be! * appearance The successful three since at this seaside race '^l^' were Sea- he’ll be ridden by Willie Hartack. to the liking of both Fabius and l 1 ! track. biscuit, with 133 pounds aboard, horses Swoon’s Son. in 1938; Challedon, 133, in 1940, Nine have been named The 4-year-old bay son of Nas- in the mile run for 3-year-olds. Riding Swoon’s Son will be Noor, 130, ! rullah, winner of 20 of his 27 i and in 1950. Calumet has entered Liberty Sun , Dave Erb, who piloted Needles Swaps was to carry 130 pounds ’ starts and $1,158,765 in three I with Fabius but will run t\im to his Kentucky Derby triumph seasons of campaigning, con- to the post, spotting the opposi- only if the track is soft. Hartack, the hottest jockey in pounds. Op- -1 ceded plenty of weight in the tion from 7 to 24 If all nine go, the race will 1 the country, has found Arling- posing Swaps are ' mile and one-quarter event. He Beau Busher, ; be worth $159,325 with the win- ton favorable. He has ridden Porterhouse, Mister Gus, Honeys 1 carried 129 pounds, one more ' ner to get $103,000 with the ex- five winners in one day twice INSPIRATION FOR HEROICS—New York —Hank same day in St. Louis. The Yankee outfielder Alibi, Bobby Brocato and Blue ! than when he captured the Sub- an Wirephoto of wife and to ception of Doubledogdare, a $7,- ¦ and has had a six-winner day ’ urban Handicap July 4, and Bauer’s grand-slam homer against Cleveland shows AP his son Volt. space to in a teammates Yogi Berra (left) and Mickey Mantle 500 supplementary nominee, who i —all in the of eight days. • gave away from 18 to 24 pounds Thursday not only proved be the difference The great Citation won the will get $95,825 in of • day Hollywood event vic- Hartack’s latest five-winner ’ to his rivals here. 9-5 victory for the Yankees, it also served as a wav before the game with Cleveland last night in Yankee Park attraction in was Thursday. Willie continued ;tory. (The race was to be televised of celebrating the birth of his new son, born the Stadium.—AP Wirephoto. 1951, and the SIOO,OOO made Fabius, beaten twice by ’ his yesterday I I streak with two in Washington over WRC-TV, him the first millionaire in the ' Swoon’s Son last year, will carry ’ more winners. history of the Calu- Channel 4, over sport. But 123 pounds to Swoon’s Son's, > A crowd of about 30,000 is ex- and broadcast met’s famous horse was not the WRC radio beginning at 5 1 120. Doubledogdare will carry ’ ipected. Rapidly Johnson Nears Record high weight that day. He carried p.m.) Hurt only Senators 120 pounds. When Kentucky Derby Adcock winner Today’s mile-and-one-quarter CAN MOVE FEET AND TOES Needles, Find, Summer Tan, Jet event was the first at this route » Action, Fisherman and others In National Decathlon — this year for Swaps. He won declined to meet the Leslie B. Dodgers the Kentucky Derby last year at Pitchers Combs’ a Giving For syndicate colt, it left CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., July Other two event winners among this distance in 2:01%, and the Babe Defies Paralysis 4-year-old filly second high 14 (JP). —Rafer Lewis Johnson, 38 contender* yesterday were Westerner. Hollywood's version weight at 111 pounds. She is glittering with promise for a fifth Ernie1 Shelton of the Los Angeles of the Derby, in 2:00%. Manotick, C. T. Chenery’s stakes Case of Jitters United States Olympic decathlon , Athletic Club with a high jump: So Do Tigers Ihe last time Swaps went a In Successful Surgery winner who likes the longer mile and a quarter championship, today carried a of< 6 feet, 7 3 ,i inches and Sam was in last routes, and was second in the By the Associated Press B.v BURTON HAWKINS year’s match race with Nashua Tex., July 14 The Babe, her physicians and record five-event point total into Adams of Santa Barbara Athle-] i GALVESTON. recent Delaware Handicap. If you think you have prob- t Most of the want ads these at Chicago. Swaps reinjured his WP). —Knowing opera- her husband, all feared she might , the last session of the National | > that the Second choice of an expected lems, take look at Brooklyn’s tic Club, who put the shot 53 right foot that afternoon during suffer partial paralysis because , a AAU and Olympic tryout at Wa- days are imploring engineers i ; tion might paralysis and crowd of some 40,000, however, trying fig- | . % the race Nashua by cause spinal sensory world champions to College. feet, inch. physicists to fill vacancies,! and won nerves that lead was expected to be Mr. and bash and lengths. The ; that she might never walk again. legs Mrs. ure out what not to throw Joe 20-year-old giant Milt Campbell of the Navy 6*2 time was into the were to be cut. But R. C. Markus’ Mielleux with Adcock. He not only hits Dodger The UCLA but there’s a fortune to be made 2:04%. Babe Zaharias chose surgery in the pain had been increasing had 4,639 points at midway. 98 squad, former Indiana University 107 pounds. Mielleux won the pitchers like he them, it s to by unemployed pitchers of merit, The world record for a mile ‘ order relief each day and had reached the owns more than his first-day collection * athlete who was runnerup Bob to get from cancer Appleton Handicap and finished looks like he has ’em on strings. Mathias Olympic de- or even average ability. Contact; and one-quarter is 1:58 */s , which point of being almost unbearable. when he set the current world 1 in the'l9s2 Noor | pains. second to Sailor in the Gulf- The big guy from Coushatta, cathlon, was running second to set in 1950 at Golden Gate So the Babe just said, "Well, standard at 7,983 points last year. < Cal Griffith, president of the at Today the indomitable Babe, stream Handicap last March La., gunning last Johnson with points. Field San Francisco. here we go again," and was continued his He beat his record performance ¦ 4.387 He Washington Senators, immedi- . greatest woman athlete of her when Nashua finished a sur- night, parking a two-run homer performed well in all events ex- Swaps admirers hoped for an- wheeled into the operating room. in the 1955 Central California I ately. Salary object, says ; . time, said she thought she had prising fifth. Then in the Cam- grand slam shot out of cept the shot put. where he no it other world record for the Cali- Her la’st words cautioned George and a AAU meet in the shot put, high' l fornia . made it—she could wiggle her den Handicap May 19, when sight while driving in fouled twice on heaves of 50 feet here. colt today, although his to check the mail for cancer seven runs! jump and 400-meter dash but l owner, . feet and toes. Nashua surpassed Citation as the or better and got his single Rex C. Ellsworth, em- funds. as the Braves reclaimed Na- missed his previous best in the 1 And if Cal doesn't offer an at- phasized the world's top money winner, 3 that all he wanted was i “She isn’t going to be para- tional League lead with an 8-6 100-meter dash and broad jump.