Monday, May. 26, 1952
Who Won
P: Blue Man, the Preakness; at Maryland's Pimlico race track. Driving up from next-to-last at the three-quarter-mile mark, and rated perfectly by Veteran Jockey Conn McCreary, long-striding Blue Man collared horse after horse and won, going away, by 3 1/2 lengths. Time for the mile and three-sixteenths: 1:57.4, good enough to snag the $86,135 winner's purse for Owner Arthur Abbott, a Rye, N.Y. ice-cream maker and former minor-league ballplayer. With Kentucky Derby Winner Hill Gail out of action with an ankle ailment, 1952's Triple Crown is already split. But Blue Man's showing puts him near the head of the class. P: The Navy crews (varsity, j.v. and freshmen), the Eastern sprint (2,000-meter) regatta; at Princeton, N.J. P: The California crew, an upset, over powerhouse Washington (by four lengths); in Oakland, Calif. P: Jockey Johnny Longden, race No. 4,000, to put him numerically head & shoulders over the rest of the U.S. jockeys; at California's Hollywood Park. In the race for the longest winning record, Longden, 42, was still (426) behind England's 47-year-old Gordon Richards. P: Sam Snead, the Palm Beach golf tournament, by two points over Gary Middlecoff; at New Rochelle, N.Y.
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