BIG FIVE-YEAR JUMP Quit Lumbe Now A Wealthy Jockey By AL COLLETTI "NEW YORK (CP)--Ron Tur- cotte quit a $50-a-week job in a northern New Brunswick lum- ber camp five years ago, con- vineed almost any other kind of work would be an improvement. He may have had some doubts when, after a period of un- employment in Toronto, he was hired by E. P. Taylor's Wind- fields Farms to clean stalls and cool out thoroughbred race- horses. But today he knows he's out of the woods. Turcotte is one of North America's most suc- cessful jockeys, a tough, dedi- cated young man of 23 who has booted home more than 700 win- THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, April 14,1965 1] r Camp Life, LONDON (Reuters) -- Johnny Byrne, injured when playing for England against Scotland in the soccer international last weekend, appears certain to miss West Ham United's vital European Cup Winners Cup semi-final, second leg, against Real Zaragoza in Spain April 28 Turcotte takes an occasional cocktail but doesn't smoke. He's usually in bed at 10 p.m, the night before he rides. He's careful with his money-- "Every jock should learn how to earn a buck; then he would yards from the wire while lead- ing and finished sixth.. He had 14 mounts in 1961 without a win- ner. He broke his maiden at Fort Erie, Ont., April 9, 1962, aboard Pheasant Ring, and his career as a jockey has never been in doubt since. He had 825 mounts that year, 180 winners, 148 sec- onds and 12 thirds for purses | Byrne, who played inside left F \for England, though he is cen- ogg Salting appreciate | what tre-forward for his. club, fears dulging his hobby -- collecting|"®, has bie Bybee gh guns. He always has a few new ury which would put him out if ifor the rest of the season, worth $396,135. ones when he returns to New) After treatment Monda In 1963 he was up 1,135 {isos Rrunswick at Christmas for... Seageee siti ? i! eee Ss aconds andi some Wintiog and w veit-withi nt Ne 141 thirds for $684,019. his. girl. Mace Hoa halite Ge the He came to an understanding | There's a second Turcotte on english first division standings, with Huntley when he decided|the way and Ron says his 22-\is hoping to repeat the feat at to compete in the U.S. as Alyear-old brother Noel, under|Tottenham Hotspur, the only free-lance rider in the fall Of| ontract to Huntley, has a good |Engtish club to 'win the Winé 1963. lguture. ners Cup. They could only win In 1964 Turcotte earned about; ",, the first leg.in London 2-1, so | "Noel is a lot better than Iitheir task is formidable--even | | |Scottish Johnny Byrne To Miss Spain Game Byrne missed Monday's game, in which West Ham United downed Chelsea 3-2 in an English League first division game. In other action Monday night, Leeds United took a step nearer the coveted "double" of the English Soccer League cham- pionship and Football Associa- tion Cup with a 2-1 victory ever West Bromwich Alvion. The victory gave Leeds a three-point lead at the top of the first division over Manchester United and Chelsea. Manches- ter United and Chelsea. Man- ter United, playing without international Denis Law, moved into second place with a 1-0 victory over Leces- ter City. Leeds, Manchester United arid Chelsea all have five more matches to play. The vital en- counter will be this Saturday "s best hanes $23 .. eS eS ae ners for purses worth around $2,500,000. First in Canada, and now in the United States, he has earned a reputation as a "belly rider" --the sort of jockey who refuses to admit his mount is beaten until the race is over. This, combined with the fru- gality learned as one of 14 chil- dren back home, gives promise of wealth and security un- dreamed of when he was grow-) ing up in Grand Falls, N.B. Rated by some American}! trainers as the best jockey to come out of Canada in years, Turcotte drives a new white Cadillac, lives in a comfortable apartment not far from New York's Aqueduct racetrack and is determined to improve on the} France Might . Lose Olympics | LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP)--Avery Brundage, Ameri- can president of the Interna- tional Olympic Committee, hinted Monday that a _ con- tinued French refusal to guar- antee visas for East German athletes may force the IOC to take the 1968 Winger Olympic Games away from the French town of Grenoble. Brundage told a press confer- ence the IOC's position firmly remains that "no city will be awarded an Olympic event where all the athletes recog- nized by the IOC are not able to participate." He said the final decision will be up to the Olympic assembly in Madrid next October. Gen. Jose Clark Flores of Mexico presented the Mexican organizing committee's prelim- inary report on preparations for the 1968 Olympic Games to the executive board of the Interna- tional Olympic Committee. He told reporters the report was warmly received and that Brundage 'expressed his full confidence to me that the Olym- pic Games in Mexico City will be a success." Banff Could Be Very Interested CALGARY. (CP)--The Olym- ple '72 Committee would give serious study to any request that it hold the 1968 Winter Olympic Games in the Banff- Lake Louise area,. committee president Ed Davis said Mon- day. | Mr. Davis was commenting on a report that the Interna- tional Olympic Committee might be forced to take the 1968 winger Games from Gren- oble, France, because of French) government refusal to guaran-| tee visas to East German ath-| letes, A final decision is ex-| when Leeds. entertains Man- chester United. Leeds meets Liverpool in the Football Association Cup final at Wembley May 1. | Remember When? .. . | By THE CANADIAN PRESS Larry Gains, Toronto's Negro boxer, outpointed George Cook, Australian heavyweight champion, in a '10-round bout 36 years ago tonight--in 1929--for the un- official British Empire title. Gains was beaten in 1933 by South Africa's Sam McCork- indale and again by Jack Petersen when he tried to make a comeback for the British championship in 1935. ATTENTION... RON'S TV RON BRIGHTLING, Is now ser- ving Oshewe end districts full time. Aerials - Towers - Rotors - Repairs Ph: 723-7521 TTT) TIRE EARANCE Factory Close-Out of Discontinued Design! NYLON LONG MILER '330' for the right ~ fasten ; $170,000 in jockey fees and the} ; customary 10-per-cent share of|was at this stage of his career." with a full side. the. Saree hones, ding 1408 ree sti Baie mounts. He was first 250 eng | Pt : second 219 and third 215 and the worm aaonseae Milwaukee Brass , ps eeu best in North America. wn | pets week he pulled do TRIED FLORIDA Will Ss B Turcotte packed his tack and} In the fall meeting at Aque-} left Torenin in the fall of 1963,/duct he was the hottest jockey! 1 ue raves figuring the U.S, was wherejaround with 50 winners in Ccts-} he'd prove himself, He did. | |ber and November. nttiieen tonne we) be Tel "inhiictive patay could " : * went He competed in Florida dur- Milwa kee County board vote mean asking a federal court to iiek ha ged Ny ride," jing the vier and while he had| Tuesday to initiate a federaljblock the proposed transfer,| he says, "but there are morejlimited success (10 winners Court action, against Milwaukee|approved by the National) chances here to prove yourself.|worth $121,947 to the end rary ee of the National League|League last year. It was de-| Winning a race at Aqueduct is|February) he was never up on| and other necessary parties"|layed until the end of this sea- like two winners in Canada, andja "class" horse. to have baseball declared ajson only after the county went) you get a better class of horse."| Many of Turcotte's victories,| Violation of the anti-trust laws. | to court previously to seek.en- Not that he didn't get some however, have been scored with The move is based on the|forcement of its contract with good ones in Canada, He wasjordinary horses. |Braves' scheduled move to At- the club for Milwaukee County the first jockey to ride Northern| "I believe in riding past the|lanta after this season. Stadium. The contract runs) Dancer. That was when the|wire," he says. "I've won races| The 20-3 vote authorizes the|through the 1965 season. | Taylor colt was a two-year-old,|when my horse was last at the|county corporation counsel to} : % the year before he won the Ken-|quarter pole and I'd pick him gin suit in an appropriate TITLE ON LINE tucky Derby and Preakness. . jup at the eighth pole and get|federal court "to recover dam-) MONTREAL (CP)--Joey Du- At Toronto Woodbine in 1962\UP to win." lages which may have beenjrelle will place his Canadian Turcotte had an amazing string] Sometimes he tries too hard) sustained by Milwaukee County|welterweight boxing title on the of 72 winners 'in 42 days. When|and has been set down by stew- and-or injunctive relief by rea-jline May 4 in a 12-round return he left for the U.S. a page was ards for a total of 120 days since) son of violation of the federaljbout with Armand Savoie, it inserted in the Woodbine pro-jhe began riding. | Anti-trust Acts." lwas announced Tuesday. gram entitled "A fond farewell to Ron Turcotte." And, says a Toronto jockey club official, "now we follow him as though he was a full brother of North- ern Dancer." Born July 22, 1941, into a French - Canadian family, the sandy-haired, hazel-eyed jockey stands five-foot-one and has no trouble keeping his weight around 110 pounds. After completing eight years of schooling at 14 he went to work with his lumberjack father. "For two years I hauled lum- ber with a team of horses, by chain and sled, and for two years after that I cut down trees. I know how to swing an axe, use a chain saw or snake logs with a horse. Anything is better than that." ADVANCED QUICKLY Turcotte was 18 when he left for Toronto where his brother had 'a. construction job. Jobs were hard to find and he was often turned down because of his size. His landlord suggested he try the track and Joe Thomas, Windfields stable manager, hired him to muck stalls and walk hots. After six months he advanced to galloping runners and was soon breaking year- lings, Turcotte rejected an appren- tice contract, not wanting to be second-string to Avelinn Gomez, then Windfields' regular con- tract rider. He signed a three- year contract with stable owner Gordon Huntley. On June 21, 1961, Turcotte was given a leg up on his first mount, Whispering Wind. The gelding bolted to: the outside 70 pected in October. ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK "If the committee was asked, ON SWIMMING POOLS it would certainly give the mat-| > ter serious study,' Mr. Davis! itt aces dia. said. eyes all your questions about owning an in-the-ground swim "However, I think the visa sit- ming pool. 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