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With three forwards from Minnesota and one from Canada as the backbone of his freshman hockey team, Coach John White has a sextet that should rank with the fine teams of 1952 and 1953. The Yardlings will open their season today against Belmont High School at 4 p.m. on the new Donald C. Watson rink...
...second defense pairs big John Copeland with John Wylde. Copeland possesses a powerful shot as evidenced by the time he knocked the feet out from under Jim Bailey, last year's freshman goalie, on a blue-line shot in the Belmont Hill game. King Lowe will also see action at defense...
...Years or Belmont. Aste won enough with a horse named Jack Point to pay for his Sheepshead Bay home ("the house that Jack built"). He considered bookmakers his natural enemies. "It is no secret," the learned racing journal, the Morning Telegraph, once said, "that he fashioned some of the most devastating racing coups in this hemisphere." His two ambitions: to live to 100 or to win the Belmont Stakes. Aste cared much less about the Kentucky Derby. In 1913 he had the Derby favorite, Ten Point, a son of Jack Point. But the race was won by Donerail...
...Paris, Ky., on the day the Gallant Fox Memorial Handicap was being run at Jamaica, Belair Stud's great bay stallion Gallant Fox died at the age of 27. One of the few thoroughbreds ever to win racing's Triple Crown (The Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes in 1930), the Fox of Belair also was the first such winner to sire another; his son, Omaha, turned the trick...
...soon she had cut her way through the upper crust of three continents. Included among the names she drops: Actress Elsie Jams' mother, a thrifty Ohio housewife intent on buying her way into British society ("John dear, fetch a 75? Corona for the noble lord"), Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont, arbiter of New York society ("Every woman should marry twice-the first time for money, the second time for love"), and Sir Lionel Phillips, a South African millionaire who would look at his own portrait and sardonically quote Whistler: "The innate vulgarity of the subject almost exceeds that of the painter...