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...harness racing season two years ago, Dunbar W. Bostwick sadly contemplated Chris Spencer, his eight-year-old trotter. Soon after setting a track record of 3 min. 10½ sec. in the 1½-mile Gotham trot, the aging gelding had gone lame and looked finished. But Optimist Bostwick had observed that trotters swim at a trotting gait. He reasoned that Chris might get back his bounce if he could exercise his legs without jarring them on a hard track...
...starts last year, but again pulled up lame. Last week, after many more lake workouts and a hot 1952 campaign, Chris, now a venerable ten-year-old, was back at Yonkers Raceway near New York City, a 6-to-1 shot in a renewal of the $25,000 Gotham Trot. Starting in the second tier, Chris passed such topnotch trotters as Yankee Hanover, Pronto Don and Main-liner, breezed across the finish six lengths ahead. The sea horse's time: 3 min. 9 sec., breaking his own track record...
Although Columbia is surrounded by a quiet residential neighborhood, the dirt and hustle of Gotham are but a few blocks removed. But, big as it is, New York has never managed to swallow little Columbia, which has only 2,200 men in the College (and over 25,000 in the University...
Harvard's library system has now moved up to second place nationally, according to an article in yesterday's New York Times Sunday Magazine. A feature on the New York Public Library ranked the Congressional Library ranked the Congressional Library and Harvard larger than the Gotham collection...
...Seek Gotham Journals...