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...Every U. S.-born Boy Scout can hope some day to be President of the U. S. Because Franklin Roosevelt does not want any more U. S. Presidents to have the physical handicap he has, he canceled a Boy Scout jamboree scheduled for Aug. 21 in Washington because poliomyelitis was epidemic in nearby Virginia...
...other occasions, piled up $49,555 in prizes which made him the fifth biggest winner of 1934. This year, while Cavalcade has been in his stall, harassed by lameness, coughs and everything except a nervous breakdown, Discovery, a long-striding chestnut colt, has been making himself the outstanding handicap racehorse on the U. S. turf...
...Brooklyn Handicap, he set a world's record for a mile and a furlong (1:48.2), beat both King Saxon, fastest sprinter of the year, and Omaha, winner of the Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes. Week later, in the Detroit Chal lenge Cup, he beat Azucar, winner of last winter's $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap. Last week Discovery's job was the inaugural running of the Butler Handicap, at the Empire City track in Yonkers, N. Y., oldtime project of the late Grocery Tycoon James Butler. Many racegoers thought it would prove Discovery's hardest...
...most successful one in the U. S. Last week, on the day Discovery was winning at Empire City, Vanderbilt horses ran second and third in the Lassie Stakes (richest race for fillies in the U. S.). at Arlington Park, Chicago, first and second in the Massasoit Handicap at Boston's brand new Suffolk Downs. The day's winnings...
...Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's racehorse Discovery, which last year finished behind Cavalcade in four races: the Brooklyn Handicap, in world-record time for the distance (1 ⅛ mi.) of 1,148.2, with King Saxon second and Omaha third; at Aqueduct Racetrack, Long Island...