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Show SATURDAY, 14, 1951 JULY, THE JOURNAL Page SPORTLIGHT FARM TOPICS Why Eddie Arcaro Loses on Favorites GRANTLAND RICE (Florida has abolished all racing lews and information. News item.) By Wasnt it tough enough before? Wasnt it rough enough to score? Was the walk to the cashiers cage too short? Were too many cashing their winning bets? I can slip you this for a quick retort, I found each day when the red sun sets That even with all the Information, All the tips that a sheet could print, That hot per cent cut the daily ration And kept me blocked from an open mint. I wonder what made a somebody sore? 1 wasnt getting too rich before. may be backing his mount. Or in winning a race for the jockeys nor mal fee. watch, or look for the booing to Practically all racing experts, if any, will tell you Eddie Arcaro is the best race rider in the world. Against this many solid horse players, if any, will tell you that they aever bet Eddie Arcaro in any race unless its a big stake. Most of the trainers want Arcaro for stake races. Few horse players want him, race after race. Here is a note from one of them: Why is it that Eddie Arcaro wins more big stakes than any other rider, and yet loses so often on better horses in other Ive seen Arcaro ride favorites either last or out of the money more often than any rider I ever saw. Ive seen him run last, four races in succession, each time riding the top horse. At Santa Anita he was set down 10 days for careless and indifferent riding. They say many of his mounts are false favorites, the odds lowered because Arcaro is riding them. This is strictly the bunk. Arcaro gets his pick of horses more than any other rider. He should lead the jockeys by a big margin. Yet Ted Atkinson outrides him two to one, day after day. So do others. Ive seen Eddie Arcaro in any number of ordinary races get away badly and after that make no effort to get up with the pack. You may ask why so many boo a rider who can win so many stakes. My answer Is that the racing public realizes Arcaro has so much money that he is only interested in his cut, with no interest at all in the horse players who Farmers Can Build Food Freezer Adequate for Most Farm Homes With labor costs up and appliances growing scarce, many farmers are beginning to build their You might be surprised to own once more. One example of The Jockey Angle know how many horse players what can be done with cinder blocks I know who refuse to back Veteran jockeys such as Eddie and insulation plus a few spare Arcaro on anything except a Arcaro and Johnny Longden, two of hours of labor is the homemade big stake. One has to admit the wealthiest, two of the oldest, food freezer shown below. this season that Arcaro has a rarely take any chances. A big stake The freezer is tucked away in a poor percentage for average is a little different, but the average convenient corner of a farm home races, considering the fact that race must take care of itself. basement. It holds a side of beef most owners and trainers would Neither Arcaro or Longden wants to rather have him. dive for that slender, hazardous opMany trainers dont place Ted ening that an apprentice would imAtkinson in his class. For all of petuously rush for. that, many, many horse players The jockey is in a tough game. would rather have Atkinson, or It is rougher than pro football Colineri, Guerin or even Cole than or any other sport, Including the winnner of four Kentucky Derhockey. Young riders have to bies. take certain chances. Few vetWhether he means to or not erans care for any brand of Arcaro gives you the impression risk. Especially if they are well that he is only mildly interested, if fixed financially and can still that much, in many be nominated to ride in big trials. It is something Arcaro should . stakes for the 10 per cent cut. grow. association reported that transmissible gastroenteritis has wiped out the entire pig crop on some farms. No swine-raisin- g farm can consider itself completely safe from the disease, the AVMA warned. Symptoms are severe scouring, vomiting, and dehydration. There is rapid loss of flesh in spite of the fact that affected pigs continue to nurse until they die. At present, no drug can be recommended as a standard treatment for this infection. Only possible means of control is to keep healthy breeding stock and healthy litters completely out of contact with sick ani. mals and away from houses and grounds where outbreaks have Gardener Knee Rest run-of-the-d- ay The Case of Eddie Arcaro races? MUMPS CORNER By UP in the apple tree Tommy Thorne pondered on the ways of women. Why did his sister Winifred prefer George Butler when she could have a swell guy like Frank Stanton? Why was she goint to the HIGH ball game in town tonight with George after she had turned down Frank? - KEEP OUT Paul Tulien and all the surplus cherries, strawberries and lima beans grown on of it. On the other hand if he waited the farm. Besides farm produce, too long George might come before the sign was up. bushes. Slowly the minutes dragged by. At last a car turned into the driveway. George Butler got out of the car, started for the house, stopped and then hurriedly got into the car again and drove off. Tommy sprang up; his plan had worked perfectly, but he must not let Winifred see what he had done. But he was too late. Winifred was staring at the sign tacked on the front of the house. He started to turn and run, but decided he might as well face the music now, for she would get hold of him sooner or later. So, Smartypants, Ill have to sit home tonight and twiddle my thumbs just because you must have your little joke! Tommy was silent for a minute, twisting one leg around the other. Maybe you could phone and explain hell probly go home. The words came reluctantly for he didnt want Winifred to telephone, and if she did he hoped George wouldnt be home. I will NOT! she cried hotly. Not when he didnt care enough to see which of ns was sick why, I might be dying of mumps for all he knows or cares! It didnt make sense. Next year probably she and George would be married. Now, had it been Frank it would be something to look forward to. It would be fun if he could think of some way to scare George when he came tonight. Not that it would change Winifreds opinion of George, but it would be fun anyway. Then he remembered a MUMPS KEEP OUT! sign he had picked up in a trash dump a few months before. At the time he hadnt expected ever to put it to such a good use. The more he thought about the idea the better he liked it. What would George do when he saw the sign on the front of the house? He would leave bet the old fraidy-ca- t in a hurry. But he must be careful. He wished he knew exactly what time George People dont die of mumps, do would come. If he put up the sign they? too early, one of his own folks might What does that see it before George came. And retorted. make? she be end the would of course, that, It doesnt excuse him from asking. If he didnt dare to come to the Joe door, he could have stood in the MAHONEY yard and yelled. Surely, I couldnt have thrown the mumps on him! Anyway, if I had the mumps he ought to be willing to have them difference this homemade appliance makes an ideal storage place for ice cream and large quantities of special cuts of meat processed at a neighboring locker plant. Like other freezers, however, it must be remembered that freezing does not improve the quality of the food stored in them. You get out of a freezer only what you put in. Also, farm wives are cautioned about correctly packaging freezer food. Included among acceptable packaging left-over- s, materials are moisture-proo- f table parchment paper, vegemoisture-proo- f cellophane (which can be aluminum foil, cellophane-lined freezers containers, bags and approved cartons. The use of such materials are necessary regardless of whether freezers are purchased or are homemade. Unless properly packed frozen heat-sealed- ), foods may deteriorate. The freezer, illustrated, is operated with a Vi horsepower compressor. Rafters above the appliance are used for the storage of canned fruits. Numerous Swine Herds swine-produci- weeding or performing some similar operation where its necessary to work on your knees. The base is large enough so that it wont sink into soft ground. The edges of the three vertical pieces should be rounded. Sufficient slack is left in the canvas cover to provide comfortable rests for the knees. Side-Dressi- Corn Crop ng With Nitrogen Pays Oif Prof. C. J. Chapman, University of Wisconsin extension agronomist, corn with reports that in late June, paid nitrogen fertilizer tons of corn siloff in an extra 4 age per acre on one Dane county farm last year. side-dressin- g He says the amount of nitrogen to apply depends on the soils fertility level. He recommends at least 40 Intestinal Disease Hits Thousands of pigs in major This knee rest will take the strain out of gardening when ng pounds per acre. Under some ditions this could be increased. too! It was almost too good to be true, Tommy thought Only one thing was needed to make everything perfect and that would be for Frank to come. And then Frank did come. He jumped out of his car and asked anxiously, Whos sick? No one. That signs just Tomjoke, Winifred exmys plained. Frank laughed. "Thats good! 1 just, saw Jack Martin in town and he said he had seen a mumps sign on your house when he drove by. So I thought Id come out and see if you needed any help. Say, why arent you at the ball game? How do you expect me to go? Walk? Our cars in the garage for SENSATIONAL BACKSTROKE SWIMMER NOW REPRESENTING THE CHICAGO TOWN CLUB, MADE A CLEAN SWEEP OF THE 1950 AAU TITLES, INDOORS AND OUT. SHE HAS BEEN A COMPETITIVE SWIMMER FOR ONLY AAU FOUR YEARS BUT ALREADY HAS ERASED 5 RECORDS FROM THE BOOK. little repairs. m NUBBELL PITCHED 3$ STAR, SHUT-OU-TS DURING HIS MAJOR LEAGUE CAREER. S?HE MAJOR LEAGUES HAVE ONLY ONE HALL OF FAME MEMBER IN A MANAGER'S SLCfT-flPFRISCH OF THE CUBS. THE PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE, A TRIPLE-Wt'f A FRANCHISE, HAS VNQ...MCC OTT OF OAKLAND AND ROC6RS HORNSBY OF SEATTLE! Well, you know Why, I thought to take you in, be Id awfully glad if you care to go. And Tommy too unless threes a crowd. Not when the third ones TomWinifred said, putting her my, arm around the boy. He did me an extra good turn tonight. con- states have been stricken with an intestinal disease regarded Oil Operations In 1950, oil marketers collected as the most serious of its kind ever seen in the U.S. more than $2,000,000,000 in gasoline The American veterinary medical taxes for Uncle Sam and the states. S1PCTSC(DPE FORMER GIANT 7 MAKE EXCELLENT CONTAINERS FOR'SMALL AMOUNTS OP PAINT FROM CLEAN MILK CARTONS CUT N HALF. |