Sport: Granite Son

Students at Middlesex School, Concord, Mass., are not allowed to play the races. Nonetheless when a horse named Granite Son won a race at Chicago last week, a Middlesex boy cashed a bet of $739.70. Middlesex masters wondered what to do, until they learned the extenuating circumstances.

Last year, young Robert Cudahy persuaded his father, son of the founder of Cudahy Packing Co., to buy him a little chestnut race horse from a man who owed a feed bill of $170 and wanted to sell the horse for the bill. This summer, 14-year-old "Bob" Cudahy...

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