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Daily News from New York, New York • 144

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coj wfluifo wuiii ui Howui By Jim McCulley Master Dennis, a 4-year-old gelded son of Alcibiades 2d, charged past five Ascot, England, July 18 (UPI)t American-owned JNasram 11, rid horses from the top of the stretch to the finish line to score his nrst stakes victory yesterday at Aqueduct in the inaugural running of the Tidal Handicap over 1V4 miles of the turl course. If hall of the renewals of this infant stake prove a exciting No. 1, it will He a welcome addition to the NYRA'i annual racing calendar. The winner, ridden tenaciously by Peruvian Fer Am- "I in ux t.o nanda Alvarez, was shut off at be hit the final straightaway and had to come around those in front him to ret a head decision over faiored Western Warrior. TEN WENT POSTWARD in the event, which grossed $28,900 and netted owner Louis Wolf-on Harbor View Farm $13.75.

Bobby Ussery was seeking: his fourth win of the afternoon on Fairfield, Conn, July 18 (AP) YA. Tittle, Del Shofner, Dick Lynch, Jim Katcavage mod other members of the football Giants regulars are due to start two-a-day workouts Monday with the rookies and veterans, who have been working out foe a week. One of the major change scheduled for the training; sessions is moving Joe Morrison from running back to flanker, a job he will share with Frank if ford. Joe Crespino, the end acquired from Cleveland in tha Dick Modzelewski deal, will ba tried at right end with Joe Walton and Aaron Thomas. Dick James and Andy Styn-chula, who came to the Giants from Washington in tha Sam Huff deal, have been in camp early with Crespino.

Leafae CMICA8S (1) mi LOt AMSCLES Fiiiiiiy Criu Jockey lobby Usury drives Griaaad orit to two-loogtk trionpk over La Aft. Braolio Bona ia saddle, to oihi third raco at Aqaodnct. Tbo 4-year-old filly stepped five furlong la 59 seconds to fNEW fota by Tu Watoti Tartan Stable's Western Warrior, a journeyman grass campaigner, ami appeared to have the Tidal an eighth of a mile from home. Indeed, he did not relinquish his lead, which he had gained early in theltt mile affair until the final two strides. Ogden Phippe The Ibex, with Braulio Baeza driving, made a Ut charge, like Master Dennis, ti pick i third money.

The win-ner and The Ibex were the only? den by Australian Bui Pyers, brought off the shock upset of the 1964 British racing season today when he led from start to finish to win the 13th running of the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes from 2-13 favorite Santa Claus. Santa Claus, ridden by Bill Burke, was expected to win in a canter and boost his earnings to an all-time European record of 165,000 pounds But Nasram II, owned by Mrs. Howell Jackson of Bull Run Stud, Mid-dleburg, ahot into tha lead from the tapes and was never headed over the Iht miles. NASRAM II. trained in Paris by Australian Ernie Fellows, won by two lengths at odds of 100-7.

Santa Claus was second four lengths ahead of 8-1 shot Royal Avenue, owned by Charles St. George and ridden by Lester Pig-got. Ijist in the four-hourse race was French horse Prima Donna II, owned by G. L. Demola and ridden by Marcel Depalmas.

The race was worth 30,000 pounds ($84,000) to the winner. Pyers was riding the Ascot distance for the first time while Burke had ridden it for the first time last night in the racetrack's inaugural evening meet. SANTA CLAUS, a 3-year-old colt trained in Ireland by Mick Rogers and owned jointly by 80-year-old John Ismay and Mrs. Darby Rogers, mother of the trainer, had won the Irish and English Derbies and the Irish 2,000 Guineas this season. His winnings totalltd 134,687 pounds From the start it was Nasram II, Prima Donna II, Santa Claus and Royal Avenue.

Coming to the three-furlong post Santa Claus moved into second spot, some four lengths behind Nasram II, with Royal Avenue coming into third place. BURKE PULLED Santa Claus wide in preparation for the expected sprint finish, but made virtually no ground as the French colt pounded toward the post. Nasram II emerged as a sensational winner. He finished i-Vt lengths behind an unextended Relko in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud earler this month, having finished three lengths behind the same horse in the Prix Ganay last April. He wasn't given a chance.

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Kvafax. IP KB BS B3 Jaekaaa (L lt-7) 4 KJi-m It, I 1 I MeOanlai HflaiMa Banfal (W 14-4) 111 started He recalled that the racing jalopies for fun in 1947 and eventually involved his entire family in a 1 A S4.1M. Imgtte business. LEE PETTY can't remember a NASCAR late model race when HOUSTON) at SAN MAI4CISC9 (1) abrhrMhr akrhrMhr 4 there wasn't at least one Petty competing. He drove in the first one June 22.

1949. at tha old AtM.lf I 0 I I I 4 1 ai J. Aam.rt 1 I M.n.at 4 1 Charlotte Speedway. Ananarlar. If ra.2b Ualnan.if Bcmd.lk WWIa.rf aaka.M HUM IIM H.n.tn 4 I I His sons, Richard and Maurice, Ill I 11 al l.aaM.?b HMI grew up watching Lee become a dominant figure in NASCAR during the 1950s.

He was NASCAR's On Target Coach Weeb Ewbank of tha Jets lauded the passing of his four quarterbacks yesterday following the team's first outdoor practice at Peekskill. Pete Liske of Penn State, Mike Taliaferro of Illinois and Jerry Yost of West Virginia all were hitting their targets. Bill Wood, a defensive hack from West Virginia Wesleyan who came up to the Jets active squad late last year after being on the taxi squad, and Larry Kerstetter, a rookie linebacker from Susquehanna, were dropped today. Added to the team was Joe Foulkes. a tight end from Morgan State.

The Jets will work out today In preparation for the rookie game Friday against the Boston Patriots at Lynn, Mass. Snldar.pk I 0 facan.as A ill. Grand National point champion II I I I Tatala II I I I aa I I. OH HtNMtnn T. Sa Praorlarv AumaawHa.

Kaftka. Utwta, Marl non-stakes winners in the field, ani both trailed, 10-9, respectively, for the first half mile. The winner hit the stretch turn in sixth place before A Wares turned him loose. FELT ALL ALONG I had plenty of horse," said the wincing rider. "They closed in front of me at the top of the stretch, nd I had to coma around.

But hi had plenty left and gave ma good run." Co-second choice with the crowd of 41,504, Master Dennis returned his baeksrs $10.19. It was Western Warrior's third straight second in consecutive stakes engagements and Ussery couldn't believe he was beaten. "I thought we'd win it sure until that ther horse came out of the clauds." Though Master Dennis had not won stakes event until yesterday, his two and one-half seasons hai added $140,364 to the Harbor View coffers. He has been one of trainer Burley Parke's steadv meal tickets. Incidentally, the Tidal "Cap was Dennis' first win of the yaar, too.

While it was the first running of the Tidal Handicap, the name of the race was once a famous one in local thoroughbred circles. When the Sheephead Bay track opened in 1880. a dream track of its day. one of the stakes races at the inaugural meeting was the THal Stakes a race for 3-year-oU. The Sheepshead Bay track and the Tidal Stakes ran their course together for 31 years before the track was closed down after the 1310 season because of the Hughes ban on all racing in the state (1911 and 1912).

Sheeps-hesd Bay never reopened. nd the Ti lal Stakes was relegated to the rcocd books. THE TID.AL developed Into one of the outstanding stakes of its time for 3-year-olds, secon.l oniy in value and prestige to the Belmont stakes. At its inception, the old Tidal was run at a mile and the first winner was Luke Blackburn, with Hindoo winning the first renewal. Among some of the winners were Hanover in 87.

Salvator in "St. llalna. J. A era. I in iatl, ivs and "The three of us used to do all the work until a couple of years ago when we had to hire more help," the father continued.

THE RUSTY skeletons of race cars he drove to many victories on the dirt tracks of North and South Carolina and Virginia and ie (W (L KB BB 111B III 1 -UT OTMI Grata). the old Beach Course at Day- tona Beach, Ia. now lie behind his large, modern racing garage. Richard Petty, 26, had been the family's No. 1 driver since hark to life New York racing.

Now a handicap, the present Tidal is open to older horses and is being run on the turf course while 1951 when Lee's racer sailed over the wall at Daytona International Speedway, sending him to the the original Tidal was run over 1 the main track. hospital for four months and two operations on his left leg. PARTLY CRIPPLED, the father now is content to be president and head mechanic of Petty Engineering. He maintains three or four Plymouths for a demanding schedule of more than 50 races a year. MORNING LINES: Jockey's agent Lenny Goodman, unattached ntnce he split with Bill Hartack following Belmont Stakes, announced he would handle the book on Wayne Chambers beginning tomorrow.

Chambers, regular rider for Montpelier's Mongo, the grans champ, will henceforth make hi base in New York Mario Valenzuela hode winner of first. $1.70 Lily Queen, then canceled rest of his mounts because of sprained ankle Baeza beat second-race chalk with Spaniard $12.10) to complete 8-6 daily double. Maurice, now 25, occasionally joins brother Richard on the shorter tracks, but his job is building engines and helping the pit crew for Richard and anyone else driving a Petty Plymouth. De Vicenzo 4-Up In Irish Tourney Woodbrook. Ireland, (AP) Argentina's Roberto De Vicenzo Ada L.

Rice, whose stable has produced some quality 2-year-olds this season, came up with another yesterday in Grinand Bear it. a chestnut filly by Olympia out of a requested mare named Hasty Request. She went in third race and broke her maiden in first start with a 59-second five-furlong dash, paying $17. Ussery rode her and came right back to win fourth with the odds-on Prairie Schooner, who torpedoed his half-dozen rivals with a 1:22 15 clocking for the aeven furlongs of a thing called The Star Bout. It was a knockout of a performance by the son of In 1902 the rare was upped to a mile and a quarter and the purse also increased so that when Major Daingerfleld won it that year he earned $14.575 a most stunning sum in those days.

Two years later, the winner was Ort Wells, who defeated the Belmont Stakes winner of that year, Delhi. The following year the winner wu the legendary Sysonby. UNBEATEN COLIN made the final start of his career in the Ti'al Stakes in '08. with Joe Not-te. wp.

He won the race by two lengths in for the mile and a qsarter and went off at 1-5. earning a purse of $15,050. Yesterday, the Tidal name came took a four-stroke lead over Ireland's Christy O'Connor at the end of the second round of a 72-hoIe Irish Golf Tournament today. The 41-year-old Argentine, who set a course record of 63 yesterday, added a 64 for a total of 127, one stroke over the British and Irish tournament record for 36 holes. That was set by Scot Tom Haliburton in 1952.

O'Connor, who started the day two strokes A Dright Future? Driver-traiaer Ralph Baldwin checks his charge. Dartmoalh, after prep for Thursday aigbt's Tankers Fatorily Trot at Yankers Raceway. Dartmouth will be facing such straag caapeti-tH as Ayrea and Speedy Cotint in first leg Triple Cnwn tar diageoakt. behind the Argentine, wound up I with 65-66131. I.

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