One of the true ancients of U.S. sport had his greatest day of championship last week. White-topped Ben White, 70 years old and driver-trainer of harness horses since Grover Cleveland's second administration, won the World Series of harness racing: the $40,000 Hambletonian Stake for three-year-old trotters.
For Mr. Ben, whose name is a romantic byword wherever sulkymen gather, it was no comeback. This year's Hambletonian was the fourth he had won since the classic got under way in 1926 (no other driver has won more than twice) when Mr. Ben was a stripling of 53. It was the second Hambletonian he had...
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