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...Whitney who missed the opening day's races for the first time in years. Governor and Mrs. Herbert Lehman motored from Albany the fourth day of the meet. Sportsman F. Ambrose Clark, who spends the night at his Saratoga cottage only when it rains, commuted by plane from Cooperstown. In the crowd that saw Al Vanderbilt's Postage Due win the United States Hotel Stakes were New Jersey's Attorney General David T. Wilentz, Producer George White, Sportsman Joseph E. Widener and, wearing the aged panama hat which is his uniform for the Saratoga season, George...
...when he swung across the track in last year's Grand National, was coming up fast. Pelorus Jack fell at the last fence and then came one of the weirdest finishes in Grand National History. Kellsboro Jack, owned by Mrs. Frederick Ambrose Clark of Westbury (L. I.) and Cooperstown, N. Y. galloped strongly on to win, three lengths ahead of Really True who, owned by Major Noel Furlong and ridden by his son, beat out Slater by a neck for second place. First across the line, a length ahead of Kellsboro Jack, was a riderless horse named Apostasy. Apostasy...
...have a niche of their own, smaller but not less bright than the Whitney and Widener niches. When racing was outlawed in New York State in 1911, Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Payne Whitney did more than anyone else to keep it going. Mrs. Clark winters her horses, not at Cooperstown with her husband's, but at Glasgow, Del., does more about running the stable than her trainer. James Healy. When she acquired Kellsboro Jack -whose four-year-old brother Steeplejack II is owned by her husband-she was gratified because she had particular regard for his bloodlines (Jackdaw, sire...
...Cooperstown, N. Y. is the Beasley School which teaches boys to concentrate by the very means which the Noise Abatement Commission deplores. Beasley School was founded in 1928 by Chauncey Haven Beasley, onetime Latin teacher at Pomfret, inventor of Golfits Latine which makes a parlor game of declensions and conjugations. Headmaster Beasley, aware that most businessmen must work amid distracting noises, devised two years ago a Concentration Course which has now become his school's chief feature. Every day, first thing in the morning, his 31 students (aged 8 to 16) meet and concentrate together. Older boys get harder...
...Dike, five-year-old race horse owned by John J. Nesbitt: the Cooperstown Steeplechase, at Saratoga Springs. The favorite, The Ace II, fell at the second jump. Autumn Bells then got a long lead, seemed sure to win until he fell at the 13th fence. Eiderbard, ahead at the 16th jump, ran off the course and was brought back in time to finish second to Van Dike, by 50 lengths...