Ann Rutherford

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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is Bill Stern bringing you the 358th edition of the Colgate, Shave, Creme, Sports, Newsreel. Featuring strange and fantastic stories. Some that are legends others mere hearsay. But also interesting, we'd like to pass them along to you.

I guess tonight in person is the lovely movie star Miss Anne Rutherford. But before we bring Anne Rutherford, let's begin with real one. Portrait of a horse race. Did you ever stop and wonder how certain places got their names?

Every city was named for a definite reason and yet the reason behind the naming of one place in particular is a great sports story. For it's a story of a racehorse, a racehorse that changed the course of history. Back in the 17th century, Charles II was King of England, and at that time King Charles II owned a handsome

racehorse which he claimed was the fastest horse in all of England. However, one of the king's closest friends, an admiral in the British Navy named Sir William, also owned a racehorse. And Sir William also boasted that his horse was the fastest in England, even faster than the kings. In fact, Sir William was so positive that his racehorse could beat

that horse owned by King Charles II, that he offered to bet the king 80,000 pounds in goal, that his horse could beat the king's horse. The king accepted the bet. And so a race was arranged between the horse owned by King Charles II and the horse owned by Sir William. It was a thrilling race, and for the first half mile a horse is pounded