¶The nation's leading steeplechase jockey, Frank ("Dooley") Adams, rode five-year-old Neji, the year's top steeplechase horse (five firsts in eight starts) to a three-quarter-length win in the world's richest steeplechase, the $57,300 Temple Gwathmey at New York's Belmont Park.
¶Three months before the opening of the indoor-track season, Lieut. Wes Santee of the U.S. Marine Corps displayed mid-season form at an Olympic Carnival in New York's Madison Square Garden. Miler Santee easily outdistanced six competitors and ran the mile in 4:05.2, less than two seconds off the Garden record (4:03.6).
¶Jimmy Carter, 31, of New York, who three times lost his lightweight title...
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