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...less than Sun Beau's $376,744. Phar Lap's $332,250, Gallant Fox's $328,165. Two more races this season will give him a good chance to pass all but Sun Beau before he is retired for the winter. Grown docile, almost sleepy in demeanor, Equipoise gets a dinner of carrots before a race. On other days he is satisfied with ten quarts of oats, unlike gluttonous Man o' War, who had to wear a muzzle to prevent him from nibbling sticks between meals. Jockey Workman finds riding him "as easy as sitting...
...fight, but in the third he was less aggressive. Referee Arthur Donovan warned him for hitting low, awarded the round to Schmeling. Then followed round after round of the kind of boxing which Schmeling-who usually plans to wear his opponents down slowly-likes best. But Baer's demeanor -his confident grins whenever Schmeling hit him, his backhand punches that made Schmeling frown and look at the referee- caused the crowd of 60,000 to wonder whether Baer was waiting rather than wearing down. In the tenth round, the crowd found...
...crowd loved it, loved the whole Big Show. Newshawks were on hand by the score, noting every detail of Banker Morgan's dress and demeanor. With delight they reported his Anglicisms - how, when he brought down upon himself a lecture on finance from Senator Glass he listened patiently and then remarked : "I am sorry I started such a hare"; how he once referred to an employee as a "confidential clark...
...Kenfield who has been going down to Chapel Hill between seasons at the Lake Shore Country Club at Glencoe, Ill. since 1928. That spring the Tar Heels lost two matches. The next year they lost to Princeton. Since then they have lost to no one. Mild and affable in demeanor, North Carolina's Coach Kenfield is a strict disciplinarian. In 1930 he benched his No. i player for breaking training. Before he turned professional, he played well enough to reach the semi-finals of the national clay court championship in 1920. Now nearing 40, he is spry enough...
...know that when you have slept over it three or four days, when we meet I will see a very great change in your eye and your demeanor...