Word: doc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, though much of his old ebullience was gone, old "Doc" Cook still held high his white head, as he chatted with Sir Hubert Wilkins. His talk was still of exploring. Said he, holding his fingers to his temples: "Most of all we have got to explore this area here-that lies back of the eyes and between the ears. When that cranial sphere is fully explored men will have no reason to fight wars...
...this skullduggery was waste motion. At the first turn, Doc Parshall, driving the favorite, Peter Astra (2:02 ¼), whizzed by the field on the outside, saw his opening and took it. From then on it was just a breeze. Peter Astra finished the first heat* three lengths in front of second-place Gauntlet. The second heat was even more one-sided. Starting from the pole position because of his victory in the first heat, Peter Astra won by five lengths, took the Hambletonian Stake in two straight heats...
Chiefly responsible for Peter Astra's superiority is his trainer-driver, sandy-haired, peppery, 40-year-old Hugh Maynard Parshall, called Doc because he has a D. V. M. from a veterinary college. Winning "hoss" races is nothing new to Doc Parshall. A comparative youngster at a job where 20 years' experience is a major requirement, he has been the No. 1 U. S. harness-racing driver for eleven of the past twelve years, has won 763 first places since 1925 (including the Hambletonian twice), has never raced without a kitchen match in his mouth...
Like most of his big-time colleagues, Doc Parshall operates a public training stable, takes on horses at $100 a month (this year he has 28). Unlike jockeys in Thoroughbred racing, Standardbred drivers have their own racing colors. Doc Parshall's red-white-&-blue silks were handed down to him by an early-Century driver named Tom Murphy. Harness-racing drivers need never worry about weight. Doc Parshall may go on driving for decades-like the late great Pop Geers who raced for 50 years -may have many more champions like Peter Astra...
...family fight: "One mezzo, one dramatic soprano, one lyric soprano, one croak (stork), one croak (raven), one tenor, one baritone, two basses, one refrain-money." Even the paintings in an art gallery quarrel. But the storm clouds lift often enough to reveal a memorable series of landscapes-Langue-doc's fertile vineyards, the endless suburbs of Paris, Arles in its lingering Roman splendor...