Word: furlong
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jockeys. Black Gold was ridden by J.D. Mooney, New Orleans boy. Mooney, hitherto little known, rode a perfect race. He got his mount out of a bad "pocket" of horses at the first turn, he took him from sixth place to third on the five furlong* back stretch, and he brought him in a winner in the last quarter of a mile. Sande, who rode Zev to a victory over the English horse Papyrus last October, kept Bracadale at a fast pace all the way around the track. He was always in the lead for the first mile...
Norton is also to win the 220-yards dash, and Allen and Arneil, his team mates are to take what is left of the places, as "there is no furlong runner at Harvard who should even make it interesting for this trio of Yale sprinters...
...greatest blow came when R. G. Allen '26, former Freshman track captain, and now the University's chief hope in the 440 and furlong dashes, injured his leg in a practice 80 yards dash on the Stadium, straightaway at 3.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon...
...collections which Colonel Furlong made on this trip are now in the Peabody Musum at Harvard, together with his Patagonian collection...
...Colonel Furlong's other activities include art-studies at Paris, ethnological research, and an enviable war record, ending in a high position with the Peace Commission. His trips of exploration have taken him all over the world. Child and the Tierra del Fuego, however, are reported to have been his chief interests...