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...Philip Hal Sims, Howard Schenken, Willard S. Kara & David Burnstine, famed "Four Horsemen" of the Deal (N. J.) Bridge Club: the team-of-four contract championship at the American Whist League Congress in Cleveland; with 18½ matches out of a possible...
...goal handicap lead up to 6-4 in the fourth inning when Princeton forged ahead of Harvard to put the score at 7-6 in her favor. Lead by a spectacular comeback staged by L. S. Dillingham '34 and C. C. Rumsey '34 in the sixth chukker, the Crimson horsemen took the game into their own hands and piled up five points...
Saturday the horsemen will ride out against the Princeton centaurs with the following team: Crispin Cooke '32, L. S. Dillingham '34, W. F. Luton '33, W. C. McGuckin '34, F. S. Nicholas '33, and C. C. Rumsey '34. The Crimson has defeated Princeton twice since amicable relations were re-established last spring...
...covered with the flower called the torch azalea, whose scentless beauty can teach the Vagabond more than all the sages can. Further on there is a valley where the sentinel pines stand black against a setting of green leaved oaks and hemlocks. There is also a brook, and horsemen clatter over the wooden bridge that bestrides it. A group of boys are sailing boats in a duckpond, and the birds retreat to the far end, haughtily ignoring the invasion of their domain. In such a place even the shoddiest of men take on graciousness, and old ladies forget to prattle...
...straight mile of tanbark along the southern edge of Hyde Park, is as sacred to British horsemen as Shakespeare's tomb is to poets, Westminster to statesmen. It is the King's Road (the name is a British attempt to pronounce Route du Rois), the path that ancient sovereigns took when they rode from Westminster to hunt in the royal forests. Here Queen Victoria used to drive in her barouche, smiling grimly under her swivel-topped black parasol. Here King George takes his genteel canters. Here the morning sun shines on the finest horses, the best cut breeches...