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...Dandy, owned by Chaffee Earl, 22-year-old son of a California fruit tycoon, at 100 to 1: the Travers (oldest U. S. stake) on a sodden track at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., soundly beating three-year old champion Gallant Fox, at i to 2, and Harry Payne Whitney's Whichone...
...Kreuznach on the Rhine, G.H.Q. of the German Army from August 1916 to February 1918, gallant, gruff old President Paul von Hindenburg last week halted his triumphal tour of the liberated Rhine provinces (TIME, July 14 et seq.) to stalk stiffly about the buildings where he had worked so long, so dishearteningly. A few miles further on, at Gräfenbacher-hütte, he stopped again, descended with his middle-aged son and adjutant, Lieut.-Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg, at a little cottage. Here during the War, to be near the campaigning Feldmarschall, lived the late Frau von Hindenburg. Solemn...
...Representatives refer to each other as "the Gentleman from Idaho" (or wherever) but an M. P. is "the Honorable Member from East Ham," or "the Learned Member" if a lawyer, or "the Gallant Member" if a military or naval man, or "the Right Honorable" if a Minister of the Crown...
...Gallant Fox, with Earle Sande up: the $70,000 Arlington Classic at Arlington Park, beating Gallant Knight by a neck after sneaking past Maya on the rail for a fine sprint down the stretch. Gallant Fox has now won $275,000-$38,639 less than the record of Zev, greatest U. S. money-winning horse...
...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...