Gordon Jones, L.A. horse-racing handicapper and writer, dies at 95

Gordon Jones, the popular handicapper and horse-racing writer for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, died Friday, four days after his 95th birthday, his daughter Joanne said.
Jones, a Whittier High and Whittier College alumnus, taught journalism at several universities before he was lured to the Herald Examiner in the 1960s by a group of sportswriters who had been students of his at USC.
“Prof. Gordon Jones,” as the byline on his daily handicap read, parlayed his work in the newspaper