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...filly Top Flight. Her winnings-$219,000-were a world's record for two-year-olds. Top Flight was a favorite for this week's Kentucky Derby until last week when, in her first race of the season, the Wood Memorial at Jamaica, she finished fourth. Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney withdrew Top Flight from the list of Derby entrants...
...Died. Cornelius Joseph Sullivan, 62, lawyer, onetime partner of the late De Lancey Nicoll; of pneumonia; in La Quinta, Calif. With Nicoll he represented the (old) American Tobacco Co. when the Federal Government dissolved it for violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Other clients: the Henry M. Flagler estate, James A. Stillman, Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, the New York Giants...
Married Seward Webb Pulitzer, son of Ralph Pulitzer, grandson of the late great Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, great-great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; and Billie Boldemann, of San Mateo, Calif.; in Manhattan...
Whether addisin is the same as the stomach extract which Dr. William Bosworth Castle of Boston has isolated and, with Dr. Cornelius Packard Rhoads, successfully administered to Porto Ricans (TIME, Feb. 15), was not certain last week...
...least active, the Philadelphia Athletics, thrice pennant winners, were favorites to win again-though no team has ever won four American League pennants in a row. A "spring world series" against the world champion St. Louis Cardinals, in which the Athletics won three out of four games, convinced Manager Cornelius McGillicuddy that few new tactics were needed. His two rookies -Oscar Roettger at first base and Outfielder Ed Coleman-batted .400 or more. He had discovered a young right-handed pitcher, Joe Bowman, to supplement his seasoned staff of Grove, EarnshaW, WaLberg, Rommel and Mahaffey. The New York Yankees...