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The Washington times., 1938-01-03

wasn't long before he was
called to headquarters.
The events that Neil touched
leaped into life on the printed
page. His fight stories almost
tore the pages with action. His
football stories carried a living,
painting picture Of halfhacks
racing to glory, of roaring
crowds and mud streaked block
ing backs, grinning their de-
light at assignments well done.
Most famous of all his sports
stories, perhaps, was the &C
count of his touch and go ad'
venture with death on the bob
sled run at Lake Placid during
the winter Olympics five years
ago. You caught the spirit Of
that ride; caught the breath
taking peril that made you
clutch the arms of your chair
and pray for the man you knew
so well. In the magic preSenLd-
ton of that ride you forgot that
he had come through safely.
Small wonder that he won the
Pulitzer Prize with this piece.
When the Italo- Ethiopian war
broke out, Neil abandoned
sports and entered upon Ca
reer as war correspondent that
swept him to fame. He was
decorated by Halle Selassie, En-
peror of Ethiopia, for faithful
presentation of news from the
battle front.
It was while covering the
Italian expeditionary forces
that Neil lived through one Of
the magic hours that crowded
his life. He flew with an Italian
The Washington times., 1938-01-03

the champion of champions
comes at a particularly happy
time. He begins his twenty-first
year and his seventeenth as a
sire not only as the daddy of
'em all, but also as the daddy
of little War Admiral, the horse
of 1887.
OF War Admiral, bay colt. 4,
by Man o. War out of Brushup,
she by Sweep. Bred and owned
by Samuel D. Riddle. trained by
George Conway, ridden in all
his starts as a three-year-old by
'tBig Heat Charlie" Kurtsinger.
Winner of $166,500 in the Ken
lucky Derby, Belmont. Freak
ness, Chesapeake Stakes, the
Washington Handicap, the
Pimlico Special. and two over
night races. Undefeated in eight
starts in 81, and a true son Of
the golden horse of Faraway.
LAST LONG STRETCH
Man O. War hadn't begun to
show his age the last time I saw
him. but at 81 he can't help but
be turning into the last long
stretch. True. not far from
PARKWAY on Tate's Greek Road,
j. Cal Milan has a 35-year-old
Eelding named Merrick.
Merrick was foaled at James
B. Haggin's Rancho del Paso,
Sacramento, Cal, in 1908, and
is, believed to be the Oldest
thoroughbred in the world.
Exterminator still races with
his pony compan Mon, Peanuts, at
Willis Sharpe Kilmer's Remlik
Hall in Virginia, and Old Slim
was a couple Of years ahead Of
Big Red.
While out around Kansas City
the ancient Tippety Witchet
takes his ease. don't know
Just how old he is but Tip was
racing when he was 13 or IA and
that seems almost a decade ago.
/ know / was betting on him
long after he had passed his
tenth birthday. Which was
something like betting on your
grandfather in a foot race, ex
cent that Tip never failed to
come on, driving, once they
turned the last bend.