Sport: Scoreboard, Apr. 30, 1956

¶ C. V. Whitney's Head Man, with Eddie Arcaro up, trailed Winding Way Farm's Golf Ace the entire mile and a furlong distance in the $61,000 Wood Memorial Stakes at Jamaica, finished 2½ lengths back, but was awarded first place after films showed Golf Ace bore out and cut off Head Man in the stretch. After the race, Arcaro agreed to ride Head Man in the Kentucky Derby next week at Churchill Downs, where highly favored Needles and Career Boy are already working out. ¶ While World Champion Shotputter Parry O'Brien outtossed Newcomer Bill Nieder (60 ft. 2⅛ in. v....

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