Two Exercise Boys In Motor Mishap; One Killed, Daily Racing Form, 1939-05-20

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TWO EXERCISE BOYS IN MOTOR MISHAP; ONE KILLED BOSTON, Mass., May 19.— Conway O. Wynkoop, nineteen, of Towson, Md., was j killed, and Samuel Cramford, twenty-one, of Upper Marlboro, Md., was critically injured early today in an automobile accident near Norwood, Mass. The youths were employed as exercise boys by J. Yancey Christmas of Maryland, a trainer who is stabled at Suffolk Downs. Both boys were taken to the Norwood Hospital, where Wynkoop died within a short time. Cramford is confined with a fractured skull and a compound fracture of the right leg and injuries about the face. The crash occurred about. 4:30 this morning while the two men were traveling towards Suffolk Downs from Pawtucket, R. I. i


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