Word: horsemen
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...Horsemen could have forgiven the poverty; they would never forgive the horses. "Look at that poor pig," said one stable owner as he pointed to Lampass, a Russian two-year-old. "Doesn't he look like a great Graditz stallion with the head of a Russian plow horse?" Everywhere, observant horsemen could see signs of fine bloodlines fouled by careless breeding. As if to embarrass the Russians still further, a Czech horse romped off with the grand prize...
...since pre-war football has a Crimson eleven beaten a Cornell team, and this afternoon's encounter seems unlikely to change the pattern. Cornell's four horsemen--the four who high-stepped their team to an Ivy League Championship last year--are out of the infirmary, and the inexperienced line has ripened through two games so that the Red Raiders are in relatively good form...
...Lieut. General Ben Lear, 75, came a reward for a career of unswerving military precision (which began when he got into the Spanish-American War as a first sergeant): the fourth star of a full general. Ben Lear was a well-rounded enough soldier to ride on the U.S. horsemen's team in the 1912 Olympics, smart enough to serve as General Dwight Eisenhower's ETO Deputy Commander in 1945. But he will probably rack up his chief fame in military annals as the iron-willed disciplinarian ("No mistake should ever go uncorrected") who nearly marched the brogans...
...moved to Stanford, developed such All-America stars as jolting Fullback Ernie Nevers and End Ted Shipkey. Pop continued to try new tactics. In the Rose Bowl in 1925, his team showed a flashy double wingback formation against Knute Rockne's Four Horsemen of Notre Dame. Stanford lost, 27-0, but the double wingback became part of American football...
Such tricks as "qualifying" (i.e., running simply for experience), or a jockey failing to hustle on the slim chance that his mount might draw low weight in later handicaps, were part of honest horse racing long before Crevolin. But to horsemen it seemed like a breach of faith to talk about such matters in public. Crevolin's careless attempt to explain away a few defeats only strengthened the smart-money boys' suspicions that now and then the fix might be on, that every entry in a race is not always "well meant." At Del Mar, where Crevolin...