Word: belmonts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Port. In Belmont, Calif., a dog named Pando, trapped in a burning house, scurried to the bathroom, plunged into the toilet bowl, was found safe & sound after the house had burned down...
Payoff. At Long Island's Belmont Park. Harold Holberg tried his best to bet $100 on the No. 3 horse in the eighth race, angrily protested when he received tickets on No. 4 from the pari-mutuel clerk, who refused to change them; when No. 3 finished first, Holberg took the case to court, finally...
...shown only so-so form in winning three of seven previous starts, wns ailing a week before the Derby. A week after that event Pensive, again with Jockey Conn McCreary up, breezed through to cop the Preakness. Next week Pensive, McCreary and Jones are favored to take the Belmont Stakes and the second Triple Crown* of U.S. horse racing for Ben Jones...
...Only other winners of the Derby-Preakness-Belmont Stakes Crown: Sir Barton, Gallant Fox, Omaha, War Admiral, Whirlaway (Jones-coached), Count Fleet...
Lawrence H. Hyde, Jr., of Belmont and the V-12 Unit, was re-elected president of Phillips Brooks House for the summer term, while Harry C. Rawlins of Freeport, New York and the Naval ROTC was named vice-president of the group...