Word: paddocks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...walls. A painted Prince, losing in the work of St. Helier Lander something of the incipient puffiness that sits upon the living one, gazes mildly down. Sporting scenes, because they contain balanced movement, a living impulse of clean speed, have always attracted artists. Degas, for instance, cultivated the paddock almost as assiduously as he did the salle de ballet. He is represented in this exhibit by a pencil study of a horse. There is Middleton Manigault's modernistic painting of an International match; a series of Robert W. Chanler's decorations on Polo Through the Ages; George Wright...
Charles W. Paddock, of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, journalist, student, Chautauqua lecturer and sprinter, hotfooted through his 100- and 220-yd. paces creditably, tied the world's record for each. The 220-yd. record, 20 4/5 sec., is Paddock's exclusive property. For 100 yd., 9 3/5 sec. has been sufficient time for several hotfooters...
...century" dash, Paddock was vying with an old rival, Loren Murchison, of Newark, and both were out to trim "Al" Leconey (Meadow Brook Club), who had claimed a new world's record of 9 2/5 sec. for a race, down wind, he had run the previous week at Allentown, Pa. Murchison led to the last ten strides, when Paddock flashed by. Leconey took third. Murchison also led Paddock at the start of the 220, was 3 yds. behind when Paddock snapped the worsted...
Murchison slept on his defeat, stepped forth on the last day of the meet, smashed Paddock's world record...
...Labor Day found the Baron of Renfrew at Belmont Park, sitting in August Belmont's box over which fluttered a Union Jack. He betted not, so said a report, but he was seen in the paddock and on the judges' stand. Although there were 60,000 people present, not all knew that the puerile* Baron was present. But, as for example, when God Save the King was played, the Union Jack run up on Mr. Belmont's private pole, and on his appearance in the paddock and on the judges' stand, many thousands of gullets manufactured right lusty and hearty...