Word: bergh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Totals 37 16 15 27 12 8 B. U. FRESHMEN ab r h po a o Slavin, 3b. 5 1 2 2 3 1 Baker, c.f. 3 1 0 2 1 0 Rosnitsky, 1b. 5 0 0 10 1 0 Collins, 2b. 4 1 2 2 2 0 Bergh, s.s. 4 0 0 2 1 4 Burise, l.f. 2 0 0 0 0 0 Dopkeen, r.f. 3 0 0 0 0 0 Eaton...
Birthdays. Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis (81), Daniel Carter Beard (Si). Ernestine Schumann-Heink (70). James John Walker (50), Edward Prince of Wales (37), Mrs. Anne Morrow Lind bergh (25), Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
Founded in 1886 by one Henry Bergh* the A. S. P. C. A. fulfills few of its original functions, though its purpose has not changed. In New York City it now collects all the dog taxes; its uniformed agents have police powers and carry 38 Colt revolvers, possess summons books and can prosecute offenders in magistrate court. Their duties include the collecting of stray dogs who are then penned together in metal and concrete pens and given a killing dose of carbon dioxide gas if after 48 hours they are unclaimed or deemed unfit to be given away...
...Onetime president of the National Horse Show, onetime president of the Turf and Field Club, he succeeded August Belmont as Chairman of the U. S. Jockey Club. Unlike those old ladies who feed truck horses lump sugar from paper bags in their purses, he is no sentimentalist; unlike Henry Bergh, he is a cosmopolite without being a freak. Now 83, he still summers at Newport. His stern, mustachioed countenance has changed little since the days when, a member of Strong. Sturgis & Co., he was president of the New York Stock Exchange, or those when his thoroughbreds raced at fashionable meets...
...Onetime Secretary of the American Legation, St. Petersburg, Russia, Founder Bergh was appalled by the beatings which droshky-moujiks administered to their horses. In London, he visited the Royal S. P. C. A. and on his return to the U. S. began moves for a similar organization. At first he made butchers driving to the abattoir untie the legs of calves, scolded horse beaters, haled cock fight fanciers into court. In 1866 he obtained a charter for the A. S. P. C. A. Later in life he suffered from dyspepsia, wrote childish plays, attended first nights at the theatre...