Word: belmontized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prospects for this winter's season are fairly good, George S. Ford '37, last year's leading star of the Boston Interscholastic League and his teammate, Leo A. Ecker '37, from Belmont, Thomas H. Bilodeau '37, Exeter all-round athlete and this year's Freshman football captain John H. Gannett '37, goalic and captain of the Milton Academy team last year, J. Morse Ely '37, T. MacI. Callaway '37, and Thomas H. Choato '37 are expected to be out for leading positions on the squad...
...Yale football team will arrive at 12.50 o'clock and will proceed to the Belmont Springs Country Club. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the squad will work out in the Stadium, running through signals and drilling on the passing, kicking and fundamentals. The Harvard squad after watching the first half of the Jayvees game will put the final touches on its machine and will leave for the Country Club where supper will be served. After-dinner speeches will be in order, following the repast and among those who are expected to contribute are Linus Travers, Yankee Network announcer...
Although it is difficult to see how a staged rally such as this can have any serious results either in inspiring a football team which will be four miles away in Belmont at the time, or in permanently demoralizing the dominion of indifference, it is disappointing that Harvard should succumb under pressure to the revival of a custom it had wisely disposed of. The attitude of undergraduates ion the last few years towards football cannot scathingly be termed indifferent; it has simply been a sane attitude which marked Harvard as being years ahead of other colleges in this respect...
...fathered by the butler and that the horse has a bar sinister too. But through a rain of horsey talk it seems that purity of race is not everything. The son fends off a designing chorus girl. The daughter finds here true love. The horse winds the Futurity at Belmont Park (offstage), saves the family fortunes. And Florence Reed, permitted mellow, quizzical and domineering has a high time. A neighborly matron remarks in suprise at her daughter's knowledge of the turf: "We haven't had a horse in the place since her father died...
...Preceding, as it has survived, Stanford White's tower, the first horse show was held in Gilmore's Garden, a name applied to the old Harlem Railway Terminal as soon as the tracks were torn out. Dutch White was at that horse show too (he rode a Belmont mount then) and he has been at every horse show since. So has his assistant, lean, wrinkled Eddie Bauchard who trotted round the galleries in 1883 telling the gentlemen that smoking was forbidden. Nowadays he goes the circuit from Florida to Toronto, from horse show to horse show calling horses...