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...major source of supply for speakeasies cut off. Mr. McCampbell charged that the city police interfered with his agents' preliminary efforts to get evidence in the slummy neighborhood. Unsuccessful were the Government's first attempts to link the brewery's ownership to William ("Big Bill") Dwyer and Owen ("Owney") Madden. (To smoke out the owners of a $1,000,000 brewery in the fashionable Sutton Place neighborhood, which Dry agents raided in May, the U. S. last fortnight started proceedings to confiscate the real estate...
...Twenty Grand, champion three-year-old race horse, owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney: the Dwyer Stakes, at Aqueduct, L. I. At odds of i to 50, increasing his total winnings to $175,575. C. David Jones, Eastern intercollegiate tennis champion: a Montclair, N. J. match against John Hope Doeg, No. i amateur of the U. S. and National Champion; 6-3, 6-1 in 35 minutes...
...rolling after one shot before he is set for the next. Last year he ran out a game in a world's championship in 32 minutes. Only one man in the world could hope to beat him and he was Ralph Greenleaf, impassive, shiny-haired defending champion. In Dwyer's Billiard Academy in Manhattan last week Greenleaf and Rudolph, with the crowd banked around them, bent over a green baize table in the finals of the national pocket billiards championship. They played the kind of pocket billiards that smalltown sports play in their dreams. Greenleaf won the bank...
...retired to William Woodward's stud at Belair, Md. A promising three-year-old in April, he has become the greatest money-winner in the history of the U. S. turf. Beside the Jockey Club's Cup he won the Wood Memorial, the Preakness, the Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes, Dwyer Stakes, Arlington Classic, Saratoga Cup, Lawrence Realization. His winnings total...
...Gallant Fox, with Earle Sande up, at 1 to 10: the Dwyer Stakes at Aqueduct, his fourth big race this year (others: Derby, Preakness, Belmont Stakes), beating Xenofol by a length and a half. Gallant Fox's stake earnings for the year are now over...