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...purpose beyond the unnecessary one of advertising the U. S. Navy. In the improbable and not very amusing incidents which lead to Montgomery's union with an admiral's daughter, he is called upon to scrub decks, have both eyes blacked by a bosun's mate, wear a borrowed tailcoat which gets wet. He maintains, in spite of these handicaps, an air of stubborn frivolousness. When his girl refuses to speak to him he makes his disappointment hilarious in one line by saying...
...favored since his beatings in the Chesapeake Stakes and the Preakness, had been scratched because of a blind quarter (hidden bruise) discovered in his right fore leg that morning. Twenty Grand, coupled in the betting with Surf Board and Anchors Aweigh, was the favorite. A. C. Bostwick's Mate, the Preakness winner, was second choice and the rest of the dozen starters were at lengthening odds to the field horses and one absurd long shot, Prince D'Amour, at more than...
...puzzled expression. Actress Queenie Smith made excited comments to her escort Drama critic Robert Garland. Blind Thomas Pryor Gore, onetime Senator from Oklahoma said he liked Twenty Grand. John Hertz remembered the year his Reigh Count won the Derby. Jockey Earl Sande, who won last year, said he liked Mate and leaned his back against the paddock rail, waiting for the moment when he would be called to say a few words over the N. B. C. hookup. Late in the afternoon, the crowd began to climb into the stands for the fifth race, the Derby...
...backs profiled above the rail like mechanical rabbits, Sweep All moved up and passed Ladder. Twenty Grand saved his speed for the last half-mile. George Ellis who had brought a Negro jockey all the way from Baltimore so he could rub his head for luck, was up on Mate. He and Kurtsinger drew their whips at the same time coming into the straight. Mate was tired but Twenty Grand passed Sweep All and moved away so easily he was four lengths ahead at the finish with Mate in third place, three lengths behind Sweep...
...Mate, three-year-old chestnut, owned by A. C. Bostwick: the Preakness at Pimlico, beating Mrs. Payne Whitney's Twenty Grand by a length and a half, with Ladder, an outsider, third, and Equipoise, second choice and winter book favorite for the Kentucky Derby, fourth. Twenty Grand and Equipoise took each other out of the race at the clubhouse turn when both tried to go through the same hole along the rail...