Word: jockeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Earle Martin, said oldtimers, knows how to edit, how to fight for circulation, how to jockey a paper into a lucrative advertising position. The Plain Dealer would soon have a rival worthy of its fame...
...Rainmaker (William Collier Jr., Georgia Hale, Ernest Torrence). Behind this attractive title blooms only a fair film. It is a story of a jockey-called the rainmaker because he was a weather prophet-a onetime girl of the dance halls, and the old toothpick chewer who owns the dance hall. The toothpick chewer loses the girl to the jockey. Pounded in to stir the nerves are an epidemic, a fire and, naturally, a heavy flood of rain...
They were almost at the mile now; it was time for the lightning bay to make his bid. But what was this? Another colt, far back in the ruck, had begun to gain with an effortless, terrific stride, two jumps to one. Nobody could see the jockey's colors. Was this one of the unknowns - Light Carbine, Roy crofter? They came around the last corner into the homestretch; the strange horse wore E. R. Bradley's silks - he was Bagen-baggage, running-mate of Bubbling Over. Mr. W. R. Coe looked out, ashen-faced, from his box; Pompey...
...Jockey Albert Johnson, up on Bubbling Over, sat in the winner's circle with a bunch of American Beauties in his arms. Owner Bradley,* the richer by $50,075 for the Winner's stake alone, let Mayor Walker of New York present him with a golden cup. Bubbling Over had won by five lengths; Bagenbaggage was second; Rockman third...
Died. Francis R. Hitchcock, 67, famed international turfman, steward of the Jockey Club, uncle of polo player Thomas Hitchcock; on board the White Star liner Olympic, en route to France to see his horses race...