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January 31, 1926

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DEAD HEAT THRILLS FAIR GROUNDS FANS; 12,000 in Frenzy as Georgie and Harlan Provide First Tie in New Orleans in 10 Years. HILARY ONLY A NECK AWAY John T.D. Loses Rider as Chance Looms to Win -- Tester Takes the Comus Handicap. DEAD HEAT THRILLS FAIR GROUNDS FANS

By Special to The New York Times

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 30. -- The first dead heat at a New Orleans race track this year, and in fact the first in ten years, thrilled a crowd of 12,000 at the Fair Grounds this afternoon when R. L. Baker's Georgie and J. Magnus's Harlan finished so closely together in the Sheridan Clark Handicap that the judges were unable to separate them.

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FRANCE WEIGHED IN THE BALANCE; Sisley Huddleston on the "Foolish Legend of French Militarism" FRANCE AND THE FRENCH. By Sisley Huddleston. 348 pp. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $3. France Weighed in the Balance

By Simeon Strunsky

SINCE the armistice three nations have successively held the centre of the European stage; to the extent, at least, that we may speak of anybody holding the centre on a stage where the leading parts are so often in danger of being swamped by the support. The history of Europe during the last seven years has approximated the art of Stanislavsky and Nemirovitch-Danchenko, in which the ensemble is pretty nearly everything.

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Notable Births

Tom Alston

1926Tom Alston, American baseball player (died 1993)[†]

Thomas Edison Alston was a Major League Baseball first baseman who played for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1954 to 1957, the first African-American to do so. A native of Greensboro, North Carolina, he stood 6'5" (200 cm) and weighed 210 pounds (95 kg).

Chuck Willis

1926Chuck Willis, American singer-songwriter (died 1958)[†]

Harold "Chuck" Willis was an American blues, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll singer and songwriter. His biggest hits, "C. C. Rider" (1957) and "What Am I Living For" (1958), both reached No.1 on the Billboard R&B chart. He was known as The King of the Stroll for his performance of the 1950s dance the stroll.