Word: grandstanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What made last week's opening notable for Saratoga regulars was not the usual socialites but a line of 80 men perched on stools in a huge white betting shed at the far end of the grandstand. They were bookmakers, operating openly for the first time since 1907. That year Lillian Russell and "Diamond Jim" Brady went to the track every day. That year, also, Herbert Bayard Swope, now chairman of the New York State Racing Commission, was best man at Arnold Rothstein's wedding. To Saratoga last week went old John G. Cavanagh, called back...
Sorley Boy, Southern Hero and two more went down at the first fence. At Becher's Brook for the first time in history, no one fell. Southern Hue, an outsider, was in front. Past the grandstand on the first time around, Gregalach, the Irish gelding who won in 1929, was leading, with Delaneige second, Forbra, 50-to-1 winner in 1932, a close third and Golden Miller, going easily, just behind. The field narrowed in the straightaway and made for the Canal Turn, the horses tiring now and their riders, in bright silks, holding them in for the high...
...ending in a riot as it did the last time they played in 1930, than they were of their parents. Most Chinese families had forbidden their sons to play with the Japanese boys since matters had gone so far in Manchuria. Of the 2,000 Orientals in the grandstand only 150 were Chinese...
...themselves last week when the Chicago Bears played the New York Giants in Chicago's Wrigley Field for the national professional championship. They also saw first hand what many of them had only known about from hearsay before-that the best professional football, given less to grandstand theatricals and more to the theatricals of machine-precision team play, can be more exciting, more sincerely spectacular than the best of college games. Thirty-five forward passes were thrown, 20 completed. With perfect protection from his backfield, the Giants' crack Quarterback Harry Newman (Michigan's All-American of last...
Second Game was unexciting until the sixth inning, which turned into the sort of thing that makes baseball conversation for years to come. Washington led 1-to-0 by reason of "Goose" Goslin's terrific clout into the upper grandstand tier in the third. Except for that, Pitcher Hal Schumacher, 22-year-old graduate of St. Lawrence University, had allowed only one hit in five innings. The Giants had knocked only two singles from Washington's veteran righthander, "General" Crowder. Then the Senators went to bat in the sixth. They did everything toward scoring more runs-except...