Mechanics Run the 500inch Drive to Victory
The article details how mechanics like Harry Stephens shape Indy 500 contenders. It covers engine setup, chassis preload, qualifying tactics, pit stop speed, and the driver-mechanic dynamic amid fierce time trials and a hectic qualifying year. It notes Offenhauser engines as favored power plants, the shift from strategy to sheer speed since 1951, and explains pit signals and dashboard disconnections under race pressure.
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E. J. Walsh
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Plenty of Confusion Over Friday's Fight
A Madison Square Garden bout between Ramon Fuentes and Gil Turner ended in a disputed draw after three judges diverged on rounds. Fuentes, the underdog, edged rounds two five and eight in some cards, while Turner pressed powerfully but never kayoed. Memorial Day doubleheader noted, with a potential third game to decide, and the winner advancing to the NCAA tournament representing the Missouri Valley.
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Bert Ted ‘Tuener
Arnella
Jude Forbes
Turner
Bent Ruentes
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Cerent
Missouri Vally
Santee Races 4 05 5 In Coliseum Relays As Stars Show Well
LOS ANGELES Wes Santee ran 4 05 5 for the featured mile at the 15th annual Los Angeles Coliseum Relays. The crowd of 56,173 watched Delaney win the 880 after a disqualification. Courtney initially led the half mile before being ruled out, while Bud Held failed to stick in the turf. A string of relays records and notable performances followed including Da Silva and Young in field events.
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Chicago Track Club
Sid Wing
Southern California
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Doyle Jones
Jerry Beck
Danny Boone
Larry McBride
Double Concentration adds Big Seven discus record in prelims
Oklahoma junior Bob Van Dee, a football guard, set a Big Seven Conference record of 165-3 in Memorial Stadium preliminaries. Kansas freshman Al Oerter watched as he rivaled, with Oerter throwing 171-6 to break the WU college freshman mark, a sequence captured in a Journal-World photo by Bill Snead.
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3000 in Parade on Fifth Avenue Today
New York reports some 30 000 people will march along Fifth Avenue for Armed Forces Day. The cadet corps from West Point joins the procession as twenty four bands provide martial music and more than 125 air force and Navy planes are planned to fly overhead.
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Old Warhorse Slaughter Hustles Off Field
Enos Slaughter, 39, famed Kansas City outfielder, hustled off the field and across the country. He drove nonstop from New York to St Louis in 17 hours, then bought a lawn mower, mowed the Belleville home lawn, and flew to Chicago, showing his relentless energy beyond baseball.
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Long Island University to Return to Court in 1956
Admiral Richard J. Conally retired president of Long Island University announced at a dinner that LIU will resume basketball in fall 1956. He pledged a strictly amateur program and said the team would play only against comparable institutions to avoid past high pressure tactics that brought notoriety two decades ago.
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Long Island University
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Conally
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Conolly
Valley Baseball Playoffs Postponed by Rain
Postponements affect the best of three series between Oklahoma Aggies and St. Louis Billikens in the Missouri playoff route. Stillwater, Oklahoma plans revised due to recent weather impacts.
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U S Open Entry Totals Jaw Drop As Qualifying Looms
About 1,535 golfers entered the U S Open to be held at Olympic Country Club in San Francisco June 6 18 with 17 missing the main event by qualifying rounds. Top exemptions go to past Open winners and top previous scorers plus a British Open champion. After sectional rounds the field will be cut to 162 including Ed Fureol Ben Hogan Julius Boros Cary Middlecoff Lew Worsham. Gene Sarazen won't play as he will be a TV commentator.
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New York
San Francisco
Olympic Country Club
U.S. Golf Assa
USGA
Paere
Ed Fureol
Ben Hogan
Julius Boros
Cary Middlecoff
Lew Worsham
First US lighthouse tower at Boston harbor built in 1716
The earliest lighthouse in what is now the United States was a tower at the entrance to Boston harbor, constructed in 1716 to aid maritime navigation and safety.
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