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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like most major U. S. tracks Belmont Park has a camera which automatically photographs the finish of every race. Last week, after the Belmont Stakes, officials studied the photograph of the finish for five minutes, finally revealed the name of one more hard-luck horse. He, John Hay Whitney's Mr. Bones, had finished second by a whisker to Granville. Favorite Brevity was fifth...
...narrowly missed winning it more often than any other golfer in the world, had needed to gain five strokes to tie. He gained only one. Handsome Victor Ghezzi, needing a final 71, had taken 81. If he had further doubts last week as he waited for Manero to finish, Cooper could have thankfully reflected that lightning rarely strikes twice in the same place. In the 1927 Open, he posted what looked like a winning 301. Tommy Armour tied it, beat him in the playoff...
...instructions, Jockey Smirke rode a waiting race. First Carioca, then Mrs. James Shand's Thankerton took the lead. Coming into the straightaway, big. grey Mahmoud, whom over-skeptical bookmakers, considering him a mere sprinter, had rated at 100-to-8, began to run. He crossed the finish three lengths ahead of Taj Akbar, most highly favored of the Aga Khan's three entries, with a new record, 1/5 sec. better than the old one. Thankerton was third, unlucky Lord Astor's Pay Up, the favorite, fourth...
First day of the meet Cornell surprisingly qualified nine men for the finals to Harvard's five. Next day, in the 3,000-metre run, Jim Rafferty of Fordham heard footsteps pounding behind him five yards from the finish. He turned his eyes for a fraction of a second. A runner flashed past to win the race by inches. The runner was Herbert Cornell. His victory gave Cornell's team five points-enough, with five more for Walter Wood's first in the discus throw, a substantial block of points for seconds, thirds, fourths & fifths...
...Speedway was first used as a testing ground for the automotive industry, but its Memorial Day race has long ceased to be anything of the sort. Major manufacturers who hate to see their cars finish anywhere but first, still attend the race in droves but rarely enter their products. First eight places in last week's race went to Miller engines, made by famed Harry Miller of Los Angeles or his long-time Assistant Frederick Offenhauser, to whom he last year turned over most of his patterns. Four-cylinder engines are more popular than sixes or eights because...