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Show Jockey Adams Gets Pay Boost BAN FRANCISCO, Msrch M (UP) Johnny Adams, the Iota, Kan, boy whose unorthodox riding style made the experte kuigk at htm when be moved up from the eounty fair circuits, today became the second highest paid Jockey is ths United Staxea. - Hie first saajor appearance was al Riverside park, sfanaas City, Ma. several years ago. A new contract signed with W. E Boeing, the airplane manufacturer gives him gl2,000 a year plus 10 ' psr cent ef the stake winnings and provides hs can still rids Kayak II for Charley Howard. ; May rty Wee Stipulated In the contract was a clause that "Kayak II came first" la all the starts Howard's Santa Anita handsoap winner may make. It means Adams will be astride Kayak neat Sunday la the match race at Cakente with Specify and may pilot him In the March bank handicap at Tanforaa April 24, In the event Howard' enters Kayak In the March bank, Adams, ail e feet SVi inches of him, probably proba-bly will fly west far the race. His new contract calls for him to report to the Boeing forces in Maryland April U. There he will start working out with Porter's Mite, the Boeing entry In the Ksn-tucky Ksn-tucky Derby. James oa Shelf Jockey Basil James, who formerly rode Porter's Mite, wes shelved . sftsr the Mite was beaten la the Santa Anita derby. Trainer Ted I Honking was reported highly die. . pleased with James, but others said i Clencta, the kttle Teass filly, couldn't have been beaten that day. Although Adams passed up a ; chance to ride Our Mat in ths blue i ribbon caueie by signing with Boe- i Ing, he still has a strong contender for the Derby in Porter's Mite. Hie ; new contract is topped only by that i of Johnny Long dsn. |