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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1958
Page
8
Entry list and selections across multiple American races with prices, riders, and outcomes. Buckets include FAID, BEACON, BARBY BOUBLE BAEX DOUBLY, and numerous named horses, jockeys, and handlers, noting disqualifications and notable performances.
Race card style notes list multiple horse selections and betting figures with names like Palladn Pal Fanes Flying Antelpbe Boofus Taftla Bandit John High Living and more. Weather says clear track while many betting odds and race times appear, including entries such as Lite Reaper Hooray Mr. Assessor Knobview Kid Colonel's Image On The Job and Be Mirza Agasay Smugsy Waasy. The text resembles a race program with prices and claimes and numerous horse names.
Thorough note of Sunshine Park race program with multiple $1000 claiming events for 3 and 4 year olds across six furlongs to 1 1/16 miles. Results list Noble Partner, Cablet, Fighting Chief, and other entrants. time records range 1:12 to 1:49 with various payouts and also ran names.
Thoroughbred racing card lists multiple race entries at Hialeah and Fair Grounds for 2 to 4 year olds across Maiden, Claiming and Allowance events with post times 1:45 p.m. EST. Names include Goofus, Captain Buster, Astre, Galway Boy, War Plume, and many others, with post positions and weights noted and purses ranging from 2000 to 7000 dollars. The piece also explains the Pimlico Futurity derives its name from the dam nomination process prior to birth.
Sunshine Selections lists a chaotic lineup with horses and contestants including Wicks Star, 6Male, Dandy John, My Bagpipe, Fren Homme, and Pictureman. One death noted: Pictureman.
A peculiar Goshen Connecticut sculpture rises ten feet high and appears very light, described as delicately balanced. Local observers report children can nudge it, causing a shift in its stance.
Fragmented OCR shows a mixed list of race entries or team names and a hardware product ledger. It mentions Hialeah selections, best songshot, and multiple labeled items with entities like Pollycrome, Scimilia, Helio Sweep, Antigua, Persie, and Wallin Sailor alongside hardware teams and numeric totals. The readable parts resemble a club or school athletic and equipment tally with scattered names and numbers but no coherent single event.
The Bridgeport Giants A.A. call a 7 pm meeting at the club rooms to plan the sports banquet and jacket awards. Next Sunday the newly formed basketball team faces Ansonia Norwoods at 2 pm in Ansonia High gym. Players include Osborne Ludlowe Mason Crone Connors Nasty Veinot Sutton Kennedy Roder coached by Casey Turtoro with Walt Tiernan as manager.
Orcutt Boys' Club bowling team will hold a meeting Thursday night at 7 in the club library. Any club member may attend. Teams wishing to arrange a match should phone Ed 5-7841, Bobby Boyd. Bobby Boyd, a 24 year old Chicago middleweight boxer, has a twin sister.
Holland Hill outscored M'Kinley 80 to 20 as Jankovsky led with 20 points and Jack Schneider added 19. In other youth games Wakeman Boys beat Fairfield Woods 38-33, Assumption CYO edged St Thomas 31-25, and Warde Frosh routed Cubs 63-26 with Rost 24 and Teresbi 12 scoring for Warde.
Snow depths from 8 to 83 inches in multiple regions with powder and packed powder conditions. Elevations show excellent to good visibility with mostly cloudy weather and scattered icy patches. Key areas include Jackson Wa, Taconic, White Mountains, Sunapee, Cranmore, Waterville Valley, Pinkham Notch, Mount Washington Valley, and Barre Skyline with varied piste notes.
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