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CHICAGO, June 27 -- Leo Durocher's finest calculations were upset today as his Giants, blundering on the baselines and unable to untrack themselves on the attack, bowed to the forlorn Cubs, 2 to 1, before a surprised gathering of 13,725.
J Rosenfield article on '52-53 Dallas and Houston season
Greentree Stable's 4-year-old colt Tom Fool took up 135 pounds, spotted the friskiest of the opposition six or seven lengths in the first half of the run, and then charged down the stretch to a two-length victory and a record-equaling clocking in the role of 13-to-20 favorite in the $59,800 Carter Handicap at the Aqueduct track yesterday.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]