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...District Track in San Francisco, Jockey W. C. ("Bill") Clancy performed a great feat. He won a steeplechase and a flat race on the same afternoon. Last week, in Brookline, Mass., another jockey performed the same feat: George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick won the Metropolitan Driving Club, a 1-1/16-mi. flat race, on J. F. Byers'. Glaneur, then the Chamblet Memorial steeplechase on Mrs. Ambrose Clark's Madrigal II. There was only one thing to diminish Jockey Bostwick's satisfaction at having equalled such a celebrated record. He had done it once before. Two weeks...
Thomas Hitchcock's Silverskin in a steeplechase, Latin Stables' Ha Ha in a flat race, won with both. For the last four years, young Pete Bostwick has been the leading amateur jockey in the U. S. Two years ago, in England, he rode ten winners out of 25 mounts. Now 22, he began to ride at 7. His first teacher was his famed aunt, Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock, "mother of U. S. polo." Another teacher was his uncle. F. Ambrose Clark, who still drives a coach & four at Westbury, L. I. and goes abroad every year to hunt...
...inactive last week, Atlas Utilities made stock offers to the 55,000 stock-holders of twelve affiliated investment trusts. President Floyd Bostwick Odium let it be known that he and other directors and their families control 20% of Atlas shares. Last week 20% of Atlas would have had a market value...
Preparations for the Grand National Steeplechase of 1933 began as early as two months ago when George H. ("Pete") Bostwick, on his way to California for a winter of polo, announced that he planned to ride,one of his own horses at Aintree next year. Preparing for this year's Grand National on March 18, Richard King ("Dick") Mellon, affable young vice president of Mellon National Bank of Pittsburgh and nephew of Ambassador Andrew William Mellon, last week packed his bags in Manhattan to sail for England on the Bremen. Waiting for him there were his two Grand National entries...
...tactics set at naught the almost astonishing team-work of the Harvard forwards and contrived to tire the Crimson players. Harvard undoubtedly showed greater control of the puck, but had it not been for the watchful defense work of Crosby, MacGregor, and deGive, the sallies of Fletcher, Cookman, and Bostwick, might well have skyrocketed the Yale score to a winning figure. Only by sending in Putnam, able puck-carrier, at right defense, to assist the attackers of the first forward line, could Coach Stubbs place sufficient pressure upon the Yale protective wall to yield a score...