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Hans Rietmann had no fear. On Christmas Eve, he entered the pit by himself. When he tried to fasten the chains around the elephant's hind legs, Chang turned and swept him up in his trunk...
...here in the Hereford country of the Missouri Ozarks, no vaquero would drop his rope over a calf's neck for fear of general ridicule by everybody in the valley; if he could not get a clean throw at its front feet, he would settle for the hind feet...
...sport was beginning, it was Man o' War who led the parade. Like Ty Cobb and Jack Dempsey, with whom he competed for headlines, Big Red had color. His post manners, in the days before starting gates, were atrocious. He liked to rear up on his hind legs and terrify the jockey with his lunging and plunging. But when Red settled down to his tremendous stride (once measured at 24 ft.), he broke track records, and the hearts of ordinary horses foolish enough to race against him. A bargain horse (he cost...
Despite his sixty or more years, Mr. Kennedy is still energetic, his hair, though white, still grows thick and long, and his eyes still express elfin joy when he recalls that in the one major football game he over saw "Harvard got her hind beaten off--by Yale." Mr. Kennedy feels less objective when it comes to the Glee Club. Speaking of the value of music, and of the Glee Club, in his life, he concludes that it "Fills in something there that is worthwhile...
...best horses in the East were running at fashionable, old-fashioned Saratoga and at streamlined Garden State, but turfmen's thoughts strayed elsewhere. At Rockingham Park at Salem, N.H., under two circus tents, 43 emaciated thoroughbreds stood listlessly cooling their fevered noses in buckets of water. Their hind legs twitched; some fell. By last weekend, seven of them had died, or been destroyed, because of a swamp fever epizootic (animal equivalent of epidemic). The New Hampshire veterinary ordered every one of the 930 horses at Rockingham quarantined there indefinitely...