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Gorman, Father-Son, Riding Duel Antedates Adams Act NEW YORK, N. Y.. May 19.— The father and son riding duel between veteran jockey Johnny Adams and Johnny, Jr.. at Hawthorne yesterday prompted race track old-timers to check the record books for a similar event on a major course, and they discovered that the Adams duel was not the first of its kind — as had been originally reported. Back on August 7, 1945, jockey Dave Gorman and his father, Ed, competed against each other in a race at the Sara-toga-at-Belmont meeting, on that occasion the son besting his father. Dave rode Walter P. Chryslers Monstrance, a 10 to 1 shot, and finished seventh, while Ed was aboard Mrs. C. S. Bromleys Snowgo, a field horse at almost 7 to 1, who wound up a dismal twenty -second in a huge field.
