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President Cunningham at 69 is well past the age at which chief executives usually turn their companies inside out. Son of a Goshen, Ind. druggist, he was a Butler vice president & director before he was 33, was made president in 1918, the same year his only son was killed in France. Mr. Cunningham has established a Yale scholarship in his son's memory in the high school of Evanston, Ill., where he lives, helped build a War memorial in Thiaucourt, France, where his son fell. The directors of Butler Brothers also replaced the Thiaucourt chimes, which had been destroyed...
Then followed a performance which, for sophisticated spectators in the crowd of 40,000 that jammed the wooden grandstand and bleachers of Good Time Park at Goshen, N. Y., stamped Greyhound as the greatest trotter seen on a U. S. track since Peter Manning, more than a decade ago. Stride by stride through the backstretch he cut down Warwell Worthy's lead. On the turn into the homestretch he passed her, swinging out, and the two came into the straightaway neck & neck. A faint cloud of dust, raised by hoofs and wheels, lengthened and faded as the sulkies drew...
...from spoiling the sport of harness racing, has acted as a stimulus, by removing all its stigma of utility. Always popular in rural communities, harness racing lost favor in Eastern cities in the years following the War. In 1926, William H. Cane, a rich contractor and trotting fancier of Goshen, helped promote the first Hambletonian, named for the famed sire of 95% of U. S. harness racers, for the undreamed of purse of $73,000. The Hambletonian, which promptly became the Kentucky Derby of trotting, has lately caused an astonishing revival of the sport. Last year there were some...
...pastime, harness racing to sulkies began about 100 years ago. By breeding thoroughbreds, which lacked stamina for long distances in harness, with a strain of small but tough Canadian mares, the U. S. trotting horse was gradually evolved until it neared perfection with Hambletonian X, foaled at Chester, near Goshen, in 1849. In 1873. a group of Eastern sportsmen organized the Grand Circuit, which became to trotting what the major leagues are to baseball. The Grand Circuit, a series of meetings on mile tracks, last year included eight cities, this year nine (Toledo, Cleveland, Toronto, Salem, N. H., Goshen, Springfield...
Joseph Pearson Oliver Scholarships: Robert L. Bender, 2M, of Goshen, Ind., A.B. Goshen Coll. 1932. Seth H. Read, 2M, of Belfast, Me., Bowdoin College...