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September 19, 1943

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GOSSIP OF THE RIALTO

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Honor roll prefaces his Theatre Book of Year

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CEYLON PREPARING DRIVE ON JAPANESE; Vital Island Off India Shows Growing Signs Mountbatten Is Piling Up Power CEYLON PREPARING DRIVE ON JAPANESE

By Tillman Durdinby Wireless To the New York Times

Wartime conditions described

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MAR-KELL, 4-1, WINS BELDAME HANDICAP BEFORE 31,949 FANS; Calumet Filly Beats Stefanita by Length, While Vagrancy Is Third in $28,800 Stake WORLD BETTING MARK SET Daily Average $1,701,024 at Aqueduct, With $2,571,435 Wagered on Final Card GETAWAY DAY AT AQUEDUCT DREW ANOTHER BANNER CROWD MAR-KELL, 4-1, WINS BELDAME HANDICAP

By Bryan Field

Warren Wright has in Mar-Kell for the distaff as fine a scion of Blenheim II as he has in the mighty colt Whirlaway, and the filly proved it yesterday at Aqueduct when she ran a mile and a furlong under top weight of 126 pounds to defeat the best of her sex in the Beldame Handicap.

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WYATT TOPS GIANTS FOR 9TH IN ROW, 6-4; His Batting Helps in Dodger Victory -- Olmo Drives Across Deciding Run in Ninth Wyatt of Dodgers Tops Giants, 6-4, To Gain His Ninth Straight Victory

By James P. Dawson

Along in the seventh inning of the game at the Polo Grounds yesterday, Whitlow Wyatt decided he wasn't getting very far against the Giants and that his Dodger mates weren't exactly balls of fire with the aid they were giving him. So he took matters into his own hands and, with the generous assistance of Luis Olmo, contrived to batter Mel Ott's band into subjection.

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Toward Victory

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Stockholm repts Gers withdrawing troops from USSR for service, this area

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Notable Births

1943André Boudrias, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2019)^[†]

André Gerard Boudrias was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who spent 12 seasons in the National Hockey League as well as two more years in the World Hockey Association between 1963 and 1978. He is best remembered for his time with the Vancouver Canucks, where he was the first offensive star in the team's history. He was most recently a scout for the New Jersey Devils.

1943Joe Morgan, American baseball player (died 2020)^[†]

Joe Leonard Morgan was an American professional baseball second baseman who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Colt .45s / Astros, Cincinnati Reds, San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, and Oakland Athletics from 1963 to 1984. He won two World Series championships with the Reds in 1975 and 1976 and was also named the National League Most Valuable Player in each of those years. Considered one of the greatest second basemen of all time, Morgan was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1990 in his first year of eligibility.