Picking up more than half the field in the last quarter mile, Cravat yesterday won the historic Brooklyn Handicap in time that equaled the track record set by Discovery, only three-time winner of Aqueduct's richest test. The gross was $25,250 yesterday, of which $18,250 ...

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New Field Gun Hurls Big Shell 15 Miles; Army Reveals Shots That Blew 16-Foot Holes

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WASHINGTON, June 24.--The army lifted secrecy today from its newest and longest range field gun, a weapon that hurls a 100-pound shell 15 miles.

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1939Allen Fox, American tennis player and coach^[†]

Allen E. Fox is an American former tennis player in the 1960s and 1970s who went on to be a college coach and author. He was ranked as high as U.S. No. 4 in 1962, and was in the top ten in the U.S. five times between 1961 and 1968.

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1939Richard Seaman, English race car driver (born 1913)^[†]

Richard John Beattie Seaman was a British racing driver. He drove for the Mercedes-Benz team from 1937 to 1939 in the Mercedes-Benz W125 and W154 cars, winning the 1938 German Grand Prix. He died of his injuries after his car overturned at the 1939 Belgian Grand Prix.

Headlines from June 25, 1939

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CRAVAT CAPTURES $25,250 HANDICAP; Beats Our Ketcham by Length in Track Record Time at Aqueduct--The Chief 3d A Meritorious Race CRAVAT CAPTURES $25,250 HANDICAP Heelfly Delays Start Victor in Last Strides

New Field Gun Hurls Big Shell 15 Miles; Army Reveals Shots That Blew 16-Foot Holes

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