Monday, Jul. 30, 1956
Scoreboard
P: Ribot, the barrel-chested, four-year-old Italian wonder horse, unbeaten in his 13 previous starts, had his work cut out to put away the Queen's own High Veldt and win the $78,820 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, richest race on British turf. Once the runt of the stables of Marchese Mario Incisa della Rochetta, Ribot has now earned $195,000, and his short, ungainly frame looks so attractive to foreign horsemen that the marchese has received offers up to $1,428,000 for him, a world-record price for any race horse. But Ribot has been designated a live and kicking "national monument," may not be sold outside his homeland. The disappointed marchese has decided to retire him to stud.
P: A stubbed little toe--the result of indulging in the unusual pastime of trying to place-kick a hefty chunk of cinder block--caused University of Washington Sophomore Anne Quast, 18, considerable pain, but she limped through the 36-hole final of the women's Western amateur championship at the Guyan Country Club in Huntington, W. Va. to beat Defending Champion Pat Lesser 4 and 3.
P: For almost ten hours Toronto's Cliff Lumsden and California's Tom Park swam shoulder to shoulder around Absecon Island (N.J.), fighting for first place in Atlantic City's 26-mile saltwater marathon. They churned to the finish line like sprinters, but as Lumsden touched out Tom Park, the fickle crowd was looking elsewhere. Just ahead of the two men, Denmark's beautiful Greta Anderson, 29, first of the women competitors (who started half an hour before the men) was struggling back into the top of her bathing suit so that she could leave the water. Patient fans even waited for sixth-place Muriel Ferguson, 19, and platinum-haired Greta Patterson, 18, who finished eleventh. Both girls had chosen to go the distance in the nude.
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