Sport: Scoreboard, Mar. 3, 1958

¶"It was just another day of racing for me," said banana-nosed Eddie Arcaro after he piloted the C.S.T. Stable's big gelding Ban to an easy victory at Santa Anita. But for the record books it was something special: Arcaro's 4,000th victory in 27 years of riding. Only Veteran Jockey Johnny Longden (5,092) and Britain's retired Sir Gordon Richards (4,870) ever brought more winners home. ¶ Argentina's Alex Miteff leaked so much blood from his flattened nose during a ten-round scrap with Cuba's Nino Valdes that the crowd almost had the illusion of a...

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