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Baseball and racing notes on unfinished games and 1951 season shifts
In this mixed sports column, discussions on unfinished five to seven inning baseball games and calls to finish them arise. Ford Frick and other leaders push for suspended or completed games. The piece then shifts to thoroughbred racing, highlighting Calumet, Brookmeade, Greentree, Widener and Whitney stables, 1951 three-year-olds, and notable trainers and horses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poe
Ford Frick
Will’ Harridge
State of
Pennsylvania
Athletics
National League
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Tom Yawkey
Dan Topping
del Webb
Walter Briggs
Ellis Ryan
Judge Landis
Happy Chandler
Calumet
Maine Chance
C. V. Whitney
Jones Boys
Greentree
Prookmeade
Widener
George Widener
Battlefield
Miltie
Whitneys
Johnny Gaver
Mr. Gaver
Princeton
Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons
Sunny ‘Jim