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Many a juvenile champion has later proved to be a flash in the pan. But horsemen have a hunch that Sab will be even more remarkable as a three-year-old than he was at two. In the winter book for next spring's Kentucky Derby, he was quoted last week a 3-to-1 favorite, shortest odds ever quoted so early in the year...
...Rissman Trophy, put up by a Chicago tailor and sewed up by
Notre Dame in 1930; the Knute Rockne Trophy, sponsored by Notre Dame's Four
Horsemen and awarded to Minnesota last fall.
* Held by Minnesota Halfback Bud Higgins.
...Francisco's dude riders. In "threading the needle" (forming and maintaining a figure eight at full gallop), daring climax of their 20-horse drill, one rider misjudged his horse's pace. Men, horses and white sombreros went sprawling. One rider dropped his false teeth. When the horsemen picked themselves up, one hobbled off on a sprained ankle, another required three stitches in his gashed leg, a third had to have his cracked wrist put in a cast. But Captain O'Brien collected the remnants of his riders, completed the drill...
Myth. In the eyes of most Russians, Semion Budenny is something superhuman. They say that in the Revolution he and his horsemen struck like lightning, that ever since he has been a fine thunderbolt of a man. His was the revolutionary cry which swept southwestern Russia: "Proletarians, to horse!" Such speed did he command that sometimes (the legend goes) he personally fought in half a dozen sectors at once. With five men, the peasants say, he routed an army under Denikin. His praise, it is said, made men warm in winter; he could kill with no other ammunition than unprintable...
During the five-day battle, Ben Lear's engineers, ably supported by horsemen of Major General John Millikin's Second Cavalry Division, lingered far behind the main body as it retired to the north. They threw down tank barricades, planted thousands of mines that erupted smoke (and theoretical destruction) when tank or scout car disturbed them...