Word: belmonte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aquitania (Cunard)-400 additional members of the American Bar Association; Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont, National President of the Woman's Party; Bernard M. Baruch, Wartime Chairman of the U. S. War Industries Board...
...broadside of press-agentry heralded the American visit of Epinard, Pierre Westheimer's famed French four-year-old. When the Berengaria docked, he felt his way ashore from sumptuous quarters. Belmont Park, Latonia, Aqueduct crowds will watch him next Fall...
...Aqueduct, August Belmont's impressive three-year-old, Ladkin, easily disposed of Sinclair's Mad Play, and was hailed as the year's best colt. Ladkin's time, 1.49 4-5 for the mile-and-an-eighth, was but 4/5 of a second outside of Grey Lag's course record, set last year under identical weight (123 Ibs.). Moreover, it was said that Jockey Maiben pulled Ladkin up through the last sixteenth...
Eleven starters competed for the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park. At 4 o'clock on a summery afternoon the bugle blew and 50,000 eyes turned to the gate from the paddock to watch the procession up the track. At the starting post Harry F. Sinclair's Mad Play, the favorite, Sande up, drew inside position. Up shot the barrier with a deafening roar from the stands as the horses simultaneously broke to a splendid start. Mad Play gained an immediate lead by saving ground in rounding the first turn. Hard pressed for the whole 1⅛ miles...
...Cutting Fellowship; Paul Richard Harmel 1G, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Charles Hartshorne 3G, of Phoenixville, Pa., Rogers Fellowships; Jay W. Jacobs of Carthage, Mo., an Edward R. Bacon Art Scholarship; Howard Kennedy Beale 3G, of Chicago, III., a John Thornton Kirkland Fellowship; and James Phinney Baxter 3d, 2G, of Belmont, and Harold Van Vechten Fay 3G, of Auburn, N. Y., honorary, John Harvard Fellowships...