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...Price Headley's Menow, with Charley Kurtsinger up: the $76,000 Belmont Futurity, world's richest race for two-year-olds; in 1 min., 15 1/5 sec., to set a new world's record for 61 furlongs; with Tiger and Fighting Fox in a photograph finish four lengths behind; before a closing day crowd of 30,000; at Belmont Park, N. Y. To home-bred Menow, who has won only three races in six starts this season, last week's victory brought $56,800 to make him leading juvenile money-winner with a total...
...Price Headley's Menow; the Champagne Stakes, last warm-up race for two-year-olds before the Belmont Futurity; at Belmont Park, N. Y. Mrs. Ethel Mars' Sky Larking, even-money favorite and generally rated the most promising two-year-old of the season, stumbled while leading the field, broke a leg and was destroyed...
...said Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, fifth Baron Headley, when in 1913 he renounced Christianity to embrace the Moslem faith. Lord Headley became president of the British Muslim Society, pre-eminent among the 200 or so Britons who held to the faith of Allah and his Prophet. A Westminster and Cambridge athlete who had written textbooks on boxing, he was a civil engineer, a road-builder in India, one of the world's authorities on wave and tidal action and the protection of foreshores. Whether on a Christian or Moslem impulse, Lord Headley during the War urged that...
...Lord Headley died at 80 two years ago. From London last week came word of a ceremony he would have enjoyed- the cornerstone-laying of London's new mosque. To be built on a $140,000 site in West Kensington, the Nizamiah Mosque is so called because the biggest donation for it, $300,000, was wangled by Lord Headley from the Nizam of Hyderabad & Berar, "world's richest man" (TIME, Feb. 22). Trustees of the mosque include the Aga Khan. The cornerstone was laid by the Nizam's son, the Prince of Berar, to whom the present...
...tracks this year. Three of those arrested, stable boys who had sold heroin, were last week given jail sentences of one to three years. Ten others were indicted by a Federal grand jury in Chicago under the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act. They included four owners-Hal Price Headley, A. A. Baroni, Benjamin Creech and Jack Howard-also Creech's son-in-law, Ivan Parke, famed jockey of ten years ago, a Lexington veterinarian and four exercise boys...