Word: jump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crimson trackmen get an early-season last today when they compete under handicaps in the University Handicap Meet at the Stadium. Weightmen contested their events yesterday afternoon, while 11 standard running and field events will be run off this afternoon. The pole vault, high jump, and broad jump start off the program at 2 o'clock...
...Captain Becher who, spilled by his mount in the 1839 running, dived into the stream to escape being trampled by following horses-past Valentine's, past the deadly Canal Turn, where as many as 22 horses have failed in a single race, round to the water jump before the stands. Next day 36 horses started to make the same circuit twice. Only 13 succeeded...
...small Irish jumper, Sir Francis Towle's Airgead Sios, raced ahead of the field at the start. Jump after jump he took beautifully until the tenth fence, just beyond Valentine's Brook, there he fell and threw his jockey. Delachance, the American favorite, swept into the lead, was still pacing the pack over the water jump before the grandstand, when Rock Lad, only Canadian-owned horse in the race, fell. He crawled out with a broken back. An ambulance drove out on the track to destroy him and remove his body, as Delachance led 18 survivors...
After Valentine's Brook, Royal Danieli, an Irish horse, swept past Battleship, and Sir Alexander Maguire's Workman came from behind. As attendants were loading the carcass of Rock Lad upon an ambulance, Royal Danieli, Battleship and Workman thundered over the last jump. Cooleen and Delachance were fourth and fifth, Blue Shirt far behind in seventh place. Nose and nose Royal Danieli and Battleship raced toward the finish...
Four days later the New York Stock Exchange staggered under the heaviest liquidation in four months. Beginning quietly on Friday morning, selling waves swept over the floor in successive shocks which knocked the ticker four minutes behind and kept traders on the jump with the biggest volume since January-1,600,000 shares. Next day, being Saturday, was only a half-day for trading, but the frantic dumping of securities reached 1,380,000 shares before the closing bell brought the debacle to a halt. As the ticker caught up, brokers for the first time in three weeks forgot...