¶Over a sloppy track at Belmont Park, Belair Stud's Nashua scored his tenth victory in twelve 1955 starts to win the $79,950 Jockey Club Gold Cup. The purse boosted Nashua's earnings for this year to $752,550, surpassing the old record for single-season earnings ($709,470) set by Citation in 1948. Three-year-old Nashua's lifetime winnings now total $945,415, second to Citation's record of $1,085,760.
¶Fred Hutchinson, 36, who resigned last year as manager of the Detroit Tigers when the club refused him a two-year contract, got what he wanted from the St. Louis Cardinals: a $30,000-a-year contract...
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