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...Lynbrook, N. Y., John W. Martin, driving a wagon laden with half a ton of apple, custard and lemon meringue pies, collided with an automobile, was extricated by a boys' baseball team who ate their...
...pursuit of his muse were interrupted by military service, but even in the army his talents came to the fore, got him the pleasant billet of cook to a general. A civilian again, he married, took his bride to the U. S. to set up for himself. In Lynbrook, Long Island, he started a tiny restaurant which soon became a famed resort of Manhattan gourmets. J. P. Morgan Sr., Diamond Jim Brady, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Theodore Roosevelt, David Belasco were among his clientele. Prohibition nearly ruined Henri, drove him in disgust back to France. Repeal brought him back again. Last...
Glen B. Watts of Lynbrook, L. I. has often broken 25 skeet targets in a row but he never enjoyed doing it so much as last week, when he was firing in the last round of the Great Eastern Individual Championship at Lordship, Conn. It was a dark, blustering day. Frank Trager of Roseland, N. J. and Ollie Mitchell of Waltham, Mass, had contrived to run up creditable strings of 96 out of 100. With 73 targets already broken-in strings of 25, 23, 25-Watts knew that he needed a 23 to tie, a 24 to win. Moving slowly...
Died. Bozeman Bulger, 54, sports writer (baseball), playwright, raconteur; of heart disease; in Lynbrook, Long Island. Good friend to all baseballers, he wrote for the old New York World from 1905 until it was sold last year. Famed for his stories of the fabulous batsman, "Swat Milligan of the Poison Oak team," Writer Bulger had since been with Saturday Evening Post. During the War he led troops in the Argonne, became chief press representative on General Pershing's staff. At a dance in Coblenz after the Armistice, gay Writer Bulger amazed British officers by cutting in on Edward...
Sarazen beaten. A second surprise came when Bracedale beat Sarazen by a length and a quarter in the Lynbrook Handicap. The immediate effect was to lengthen the price of Sarazen who has been the Winter-book favorite for the Kentucky Derby. The result of the race was a blow to all. Sarazen started 1-3 on, while the odds at post-time against Bracedale were 7-1. It was considered possible that St. James will now supplant Sarazen as the Kentucky Derby choice...