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...Mare T. McHine '04," the small red lights on his forehead blinked out. "Earnest I. Sligh has been called to Cairo by the Pansmanise government," said the walking thing. "If you're interested in the Holy cross score, unless I'm rusty it will be Harvard 21 Holy Cross...
...read in a newspaper that the Marines were commissioning men with university military training such as his. He got his 2nd lieutenancy in May 1917 and was sent to Guam. Esther King sailed out there and married him. After the war he was transferred to the Marine base at Mare Island...
Morose-looking Owner Ralph Verhurst sat outside a stall in Stable C at Chicago's Sportsman's Park one night last week and gazed critically at an eight-year-old brown mare named Proximity. He shifted his unlit cigar, his 225-lb. bulk, got up slowly and fed the mare a lump of sugar. He was asked, "How does she look?" Belgian-born Ralph Verhurst, who has been trotting Proximity since she was a three-year-old, was characteristically pessimistic: "Bad, bad. I don't think she's got it." Owner Verhurst happily turned...
...stretch, the race had settled down to a match between Dragon's speedy young mare Nituzza and Wave's pace-setting Miranda. Twice Nituzza's jockey tried to pass; twice Miranda's jockey flailed him across the face with his long, beef-sinew whip. Miranda won by a length. The winner's purse: 360 lire (about...
...savvy Canadian Clint Hodgins, one of the top drivers in the U.S. last year, knew he had plenty of horse left as he hit the top of the stretch. He gave the mare her head. That was all Proximity needed. She swung the 36-pound sulky out for a clear shot at the brilliantly lighted finish, breezed effortlessly past the leaders and went on to win by 2½ lengths. Said one of Proximity's admirers afterwards: "It was just as if Hodgins had stepped on an accelerator...