Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, ONETIME OWNER BOSTON BRAVES, DISTANT COUSIN ONETIME SECRETARY NAVY. YOU PROVE...
...John Perry, who last week made his 1935 U. S. debut by beating old Manuel Alonso in an exhibition match at South Orange. That Perry will win at Forest Hills next week tennis experts are unanimously agreed. If he does so, he will, for the first time, actually become owner of the Cup which stands on a card table beside the court during the final and which, for the last two years, has merely been handed to him to fondle for newsreel cameramen before watchful U. S. L. T. A. officials restored it to its Black, Starr & Frost-Gorham vault...
This year there will be no tickets for separate buildings but the Participation ticket will admit the owner to all of the H.A.A. grounds. The locker and towel fee will remain an extra $4 and it will still be possible to pay 25 cents each time a student uses any athletic equipment instead of buying a $10 ticket...
...many who drove for more than 50 years. Trotting drivers ordinarily start as stable boys, work slowly upward through the stages of being grooms, second-trainers, and finally trainer-drivers with public stables of their own. Most good drivers train the horses which they drive. They wear not the owner's colors but their own. A trainer usually gets $100 per month for each horse in his stable, clear of all operating expenses; gets no additional salary for driving. Sunburned, grizzled, dressed in narrow whipcord trousers, low boots, high caps and light silk jackets, drivers like Fred Egan...
Driver Septus Palin, spry, brown, bandy-legged, 57, began training horses at 25 near Crawfordsville, Ind. where he grew up, now has an interest in an Indianapolis stable. He has been trainer and driver for Owner Baker, whose Greyhound was preceded by Pacers Winnipeg (1:57 1/4), Star Etawah (1 :59 1/4) and His Majesty (1 :59 1/4), for the past ten years. His silks are green & white. He wears glasses, smokes cigars, talks in monosyllables. After last week's race, Greyhound was led back to his stall, unharnessed, and fed by his stable boy a cigaret which...