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...Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's four-year-old racehorse Equipoise, who was retired early last season with a blind quarter crack: the Delavan Handicap at Arlington Park, defeating Jamestown, who had beaten him twice in 1930, by three lengths. Carrying top-weight of 128 lb., Equipoise covered the mile in 1 :34 2/5, or 3/5 sec. better than the world record for an oval track set by Jack High under 110 lb. at Belmont Park...
...Scholarships: A. I. Abell, Eldorado, Ill.; J. A. Jenkins, Oak Park, Ill.; A. G. Marshak, Woodhaven, L. I., N. Y.; J. C. Miller, Taooma, Wash.; L. A. Wilford, Cambridge, Mass.; Gorham Thomas Scholarship: C. B. Moke, Youngstown, Ohio; Townsend Scholarships: J. M. Pratt, Pittsburgh, Pa.; J. F. A. Rick, Jamestown, N. Y.; W. S. Weedon, University, Va.; Nathan Weiner, Roxbury, Mass.; R. M. Wiles, Truro, N. S., Canada; University Fellowships: E. C. Abbe, Ithaca, N. Y.; F. A. Arlinghaus, Cheviot, Ohio; R. M. Baum, Hamilton, N. Y.; F. W. Burton, Weston, Ont.; Thaddeus Clapp, East Orange...
...City of Detroit dragged her basket along the field, barely cleared it, came down with a gas-leak 10 mi. away in the Missouri River, luckily upon a tiny island. All the others fought electrical storms through the night. Second to land next morning was the Chevrolet entry (at Jamestown, N. Dak., 410 mi.) after her crew had thrown overboard all ballast including spare clothing to let the basket clear a high tension wire. An hour later, few miles away, the rain-sogged City of Omaha fouled a farmer's fence, spilled her crew to the ground. Army...
...voters of North Dakota decided emphatically last week against moving their capital to Jamestown from Bismarck where the capitol burned last year...
...Belmont Stakes, not so thoroughly publicized as the Kentucky Derby, attracts a smaller and proportionately more socialite crowd, is worth more ($58,770) to the winner. The race was run on a hot sunny afternoon, with Twenty Grand the favorite, Jamestown a second choice at even money. The horses broke out of the starting stalls together, then straightened out with Jamestown ahead and Twenty Grand last. They stayed in practically the same positions with Twenty Grand running easily and well behind the leaders as he did in the Derby, till the last turn. Then Twenty Grand and Sun Meadow began...