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RACE DRIVERS BRA VE LOT

by Al Franken injuries or might have re-broken the injured ribs. The 5 ft.
8 in., 200-pounder from Man·hattan Beach would have
For sheer courage in nothing of it. He got up and walked out of the hospital
sports, it's hard to top and back to the race track.
that select band of in-
div id u a Is who make Just then Rodger Ward was hollering for a relief driver.
their living from racing Linden drove nearly 100 miles in relief for Ward, then
cars. chauffeured anofher stint in relief for Johnny Thomson.
Take husky Andy
When the race was over Linden went back to the track
Linden for example. A
few weeks prior to the hospital where X-Rays showed 'his ribs had been broken
1953 Indianapolis 500- again. He was so badly banged up he couldn't attend
miler, Linden took a the Speedway Banquet the next nig·ht to pick up his check,
bad spill in a stock car but still he drove several hundred miles in relief, apparently
oibl'ivious to fhe pain.
race, suffering a slight
fracture of the skull and
Linden, who finished sixth last year at Indianapolis (4th
three broken ribs,
in '51), is looking forward to the "Big One" again. Mean-
among other injuries.
while, he's one of the big-name jockeys Maestro J. C.
Agajanian has lined up to run in a 100-mile National
The medicos told Andy he would never be able to fulfill
Championship midget auto race at Bonelli Stadium, Sau-
his Indianapolis assignment, but he qualified among the
gus, Sunday afternoon. Al'I of the leading names, includ-
leaders and was running well up in the chase when his
ing Johnnie Parsons, who'll drive Agajanian's brand new
brakes wenf out. Andy hit the wall and was hauled off to
$28,000 be,auty at Indianapolis, will be there.
the track hospital.
The track doctors told Andy he might have some internal And a braver band you'll not find.
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