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Bunching at the turn, widening along the fence, looping down past the grandstand they came, entries in last week's revival (in Chicago) of the American Derby, one-time "classic." A florid gentleman in a Panama looked benignly at the scene. He was Colonel E. R. Bradley of Lexington, Ky., owner of a brown horse named Boot to Boot, whose jockey, working his legs like a frog, drew under the wire, a winner by two lengths. The race put $89,000 in Colonel Bradley's pocket, was the fifth derby his stable has taken this year...
While the University nine is playing on the grandstand field, the Second team will take on St. Anselm's College on the Second team diamond. The scrubs opened their season at Exeter last Saturday, and showed lack of practice in their defeat at the hands of the schoolboys. Coach Parent, after a few intensive practice sessions has shifted his line-up, and he expects his charges to put up a much improved game against the Saints today...
Died. Miss Marie C. Brehm, 66, in 1924 the Prohibition nominee for Vice President of the U. S., since 1891 a national lecturer for the W. C. T. U.; at Long Beach, Calif., from injuries suffered in the collapse of a grandstand at Pasadena three weeks previously...
...gripping developments. The validity of such a story depends on the extent to which the author can invest mediocre personalities with, not alone human naturalness, but significant human naturalness. By that token, these Surrys are only soso; just small-town folks with no claims on reserved seats in the grandstand for famed literary characters. But Miss Hull is well worth reading; she gives pleasure. She is precise without being precious or pompous; vivid without being vivacious?or "vital." She is one of the clear-headed people of this verbose world who know the force of the unspoken word...
...despatch boxes. Around the table a group of the most distin- guished statesmen in Europe-all clad in mourning (for England's Dowager Queen). At smaller tables other statesmen and ladies-like- wise in black. At one end of the room eight rows of seats, tiered like a grandstand, for the press. Above and over all, the unearthly white-green glare of mercury-vapor arcs. Conspicuous upon a red-draped raised platform, several uncouth persons in sweaters or shirt- sleeves, cranking unceasingly at cinema cameras. Such was the setting, dramatic and bizarre, amid which the famed Locarno Treaties* were...