Word: paddocks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Forty-two horses came out of the paddock gate and moved up the midway to the barrier. Some walked quietly and lightly, with the jockeys sitting up high to save their backs even in this short walk; others skittered sideways, excited by the sight of other horses, by the crowd (250,000) that showed like a dark ocean along the fences, washing up into a wave in the grandstand. It had been raining in the morning, but the rain had stopped; the sky was full of shifting clouds through which the sunlight shone in patches. Three times the horses, picked...
...Charles Paddock, fast-stepper, one-time beau of Bebe Daniels, broke his own world's record for the null dash twice in two days at the Rice Relays in Houston. His last time...
...Charlie Paddock still continues to break records after reaching what seems a ripe old age for an athlete and big league managers do not hesitate to trade a flock of rookies for one veteran player, but in one sport at least youth will come into its won this year. The Davis Cup team as announced for the first matches with Mexico on April 6 marks the coming of another generation in the game. After holding the cup in America for years, the famous trio of Tilden, Johnson and Williams have dwindled to but one, and Tilden alone must head...
Detroit 3, Harvard 2. S.M. Dupertuis '28 defeated A.D. Hotchkiss, Detroit, 15-7, 15-6, 11-15, 15-10; R. Maxon, Detroit, defeated Seabury Oliver '28, 16-15, 16-13, 15-11; J.T. Paddock Detroit, defeated B.H. Wihtbeck '29, 15-17, 9-15, 15-6, 15-8, 15-9; A.G. Thatcher '29 defeated R. Hill, Detroit, 15-7, 9-15, 15-18, 15-7; Newhall, Detroit, defeated G.T. Francis...
...full force of this ending is brought home in a final chapter, entitled "Happiness," where the groceryman's wife, Mrs. Paddock, repents of having flirted with a local literary light and the grocer's daughter, Georgia Paddock, forgives Hero Jack Ellory for having belittled, by premature tactics, "the fully matured love of a man for his mate...