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September 20, 1936

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Headlines from September 20, 1936

HUNTS RACE TAKEN BY WHAT HAVE YOU; Left at Post, Gould's Racer Gets Up to Win Foxcatcher National Cup Chase. SOLDIERS FATE IS SECOND Early Leader Beaten by Half Length -- Baffler Is Next at Fair Hill Before 18,000. HUNTS RACE TAKEN BY WHAT HAVE YOU

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

FAIR HILL, Md., Sept. 19. -Frank M. Gould's What Have You, an 8-year-old chestnut gelding, captured first honors in the feature and most exciting race today, the third running of the Foxcatcher National Cup Steeplechase.

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Notable Births

Andrew Davies (writer)

1936Andrew Davies, Welsh author, screenwriter, and producer[†]

Andrew Wynford Davies is a Welsh screenwriter and novelist, best known for his television adaptations of To Serve Them All My Days, House of Cards, Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, Bleak House, War & Peace, and Les Misérables, and his original serial A Very Peculiar Practice. He was made a BAFTA Fellow in 2002.

Salvador Reyes (footballer, born 1936)

1936Salvador Reyes Monteón, Mexican footballer and manager (died 2012)[†]

Salvador Reyes Monteón was a Mexican professional footballer who played as a forward.