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...from my bed And the cry of his hounds, which he oft times led Peel's 'View Haloo!' would awaken the dead Or the fox from his lair in the morning. -CUMBERLAND HUNTING SONG In England and Virginia, Ireland and Ohio-wherever British or U. S. horsemen gather, people remembered that song last week, for cub hunting was over, formal fox hunting was beginning. Bank presidents set their alarm clocks for 5:30 a. m. Valets laid out scarlet coats and white breeches. Stalwart young women wore derby hats at dawn. In Britain sportsmen remembered John Peel...
Santa Fe's Story on Air Transportation. Like the best of horsemen, who might try to make a race horse and a draft horse pull smoothly in a team, William Benson Storey has his troubles. He is president of The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. Also, he is closely interested in Transcontinental Air Transport, which uses Santa Fe rail service for part of its route and competes with the Santa Fe for more. Also, he is director of the Railway Express Agency, Inc., for whose business both the rail and his air systems compete...
...wild, rebellious Sultan El Atrash who lives in a mud palace high in the remote mountains and sallies forth on sporadic raids at the head of his hard-riding, fanatical Druse tribesmen. Last week the dread Atrash was reputed to be rampaging toward Palestine with 800 of his own horsemen and 2,000 Bedouins who recently joined his plundering banner...
...Budenny as she dashed on a plunging charger into tiny Russian villages, fired peasant lads with her tales of battle and glory. Soon every man who possessed a horse and gun (or even a pony and pitchfork) was galloping at her heels to join Budennevskaya Kon-armia (Budenny's Horsemen). Only last year, when the Soviet Congress was discussing a project for electrification of certain provincial cities, Commander Budenny strode in and stampeded the session by shouting: "What is all this talk of 'electrification?' What we need is 'horsification!' Give me enough horses for the Army!" On the Chino-Russian...
Following the Army match the Crimson horsemen will face Yale on the following Saturday, May 25. The next game will come on June 22 when the Harvard players enter the Intercollegiates...