May 9, 1943

ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 8 -- Navy oarsmen ruled the choppy, wind-swept Severn today. Duplicating the victory attained by the smooth-stroking varsity in the afternoon's opening race, the junior varsity and plebe eights triumphed nicely to give the middies a clean sweep in the final major regatta of the wartime-abbreviated intercollegiate rowing season.

New betting records, several of which officials believe to be American or world highs, were set yesterday at Jamaica, where 30,056 persons saw Boysy, at $37.40, doggedly hammer his way home first in the $19,150 Grey Lag Handicap while the extraordinary figure of $2,174,497 clicked through the monster totalizator for a new world record on a seven-race program.

survey shows fewer B and C books in NYC than in 5 key cities; OPA spokesmen comment

BOSTON, May 8 -- Acrimony and the new balata ball were strongly in evidence today as the Braves beat the Dodgers, 3 -- 2.

BALTIMORE, May 8 -- With the serenity of an old gentleman in his rocking chair on a front veranda Johnny Longden sat down on the famous back of Count Fleet this afternoon and rode a mile and three-sixteenths to fame and glory in the fifty-third running of the historic Preakness Stakes.