Proposes Three-Cornered Match for Handicap Title, Daily Racing Form, 1947-05-17

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Proposes Three-Cornered Match for Handicap Title ATLANTIC CITY, Mays Landing, N. J., May 16. — President John B. Kelly, of the Atlantic City Racing Association, today extended to the owners of Armed, Assault and Stymie an invitation to participate in a three-cornered mile and a quarter contest on June 7. The association will offer a purse of 0,000, winner-take-all, but stipulates that all three horses must start. The proposed event would serve to determine the countrys handicap champion and possibly the successor to Whirlaway as worlds greatest money winner. Whirlaway has 61,161 to his credit. He is pressed closest by Mrs. E. D. Jacobs Stymie, with gleanings of 39,935, and then come R. J. Klebergs Assault, 98,-470, and Warren Wrights Armed, 52,775.


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