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...Albany, Calif., after the Golden Gate Fields track veterinarian refused to permit two horses to run in the mile-and-sixteenth Millbrae Handicap, the stewards ordered Calumet Farm's Dixie Lad, whose trainer tried to scratch him, to race in order to keep the betting field at eight. Handicap's winner: Dixie Lad, who paid $31 on a $2 ticket...
...president and comptroller for A. G. Spalding & Bros., became president, succeeding William T. Brown, who died recently. Gerould started selling Spalding's sporting goods the year he graduated from Cornell ('21), worked up through accounting to a vice presidency in 1937. An enthusiastic golfer, he gets a handicap of 14 when he plays Spalding's stable of pros, but is beaten "rather frequently" by his wife...
Rats & Dear Old Ladies. Many of the students felt that big-city Protestant churches were overdue for a change of attitude. "Fear of new groups seems to be the handicap to church expansion in some cases," said Paul Mehl, 25, of Union Theological Seminary. "Workingmen don't flock to support a church abounding with prejudices, traditions, and dear old ladies who call it 'their' church...
Professional Handicap. In Asbury Park, N.J., when Wesley T. Moon, boating editor for the Press, failed to show up for work, his editor heard that he was suffering from seasickness...
Pleased Trainer John Gaver, after being congratulated on the victory, produced a stock race-track reply: "Good horses make good trainers." Tom Fool's victory revived talk of a "dream race" between Alfred Vanderbilt's champion three-year-old Native Dancer and the champion four-year-old handicap horse. On a weight-for-age basis today, Tom Fool would carry 126 Ibs. in a mile race, the Dancer...