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Show TWO MAYORS ENTER ANNUAL LEGION RACE Circlcvillc's Mayor Harold Gottfricdson plans to add another an-other Mayor's Race trophy to the two he now has gracing the mantlepiece in his living room, he advised Milford Mayor Ray Kizer when the Milford city official drove to Circleville last Sunday to personally per-sonally challenge Mayor Gott-friedson. "For two years now I've won the Milford 49crs Mayors' Race,"- Mayor Gottfricdson pointed out. "In fact, I've won the only two races they've had, and I fully expect to keep the record clear. These trophies tro-phies look nice, and I'm anxious anx-ious to string 'em all the way across. my mantlepiece." For the 1958 renewal of the American Legion 49er feature, Mayor Gottfriedson will ride Bona Pad, a horse recently brought to Utah from Arizona. Bona Pad has been an outstanding out-standing half-miler in the Arizona Ari-zona winter meets. Mayor Kizer, twice runner-up runner-up to Mayor Gottfriedson, has different ideas about the outcome out-come of this year's, race. "Mayor Gottfriedsen suggested sug-gested that we make it a half-mile half-mile event this year," Ray said, "and that's where he stuck his neck out. I'd have won by 10 lengths last year if I hadn't let my horse go wide at the turn, and this half-mile race will give me time to recover re-cover from at least one mistake." mis-take." - The Utah Mayors' Race, feature fea-ture of the Milford American Legion 49er celebration, will be run on the second day of the celebration, Saturday, unt -14th." The half-mile race will also prove more interesting from the spectator standpoint, since the horses will pass the grandstand grand-stand twice. |