Painesville Trot Notes, Daily Racing Form, 1953-05-16

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Painesville Trot Notes PAINESVILLE, Ohio, May 15. Painesville will televise its feature race once a week over the NBC outlet in Cleveland, station WNBK. The first four telecasts will be on Wednesdays and the final four on Saturday nights. Jay Scott of Miami, and track announcer Chuck Bang will collaborate on the telecasts. There will also be 20 radio broadcasts from Painesville over WERE. Races will be broadcast on all nights during the meeting when the Indians are not playing a night baseball game. Bob Plaxico. veteran horseman from Canton, Ohio, who has the largest stable on the grounds at Painesville comes from an athletic family of four boys and six girls. One brother, Monroe, is track coach and assistant football coach at the University of Georgia, and another brother won All-Southern honors as an end at South Carolina. His sister, Eleanor, was a member of a girls basketball team in Atlanta which went through seven seasons without defeat. She was chosen All-American in three of those seasons.


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