Word: papyruses
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...pocket" of horses at the first turn, he took him from sixth place to third on the five furlong* back stretch, and he brought him in a winner in the last quarter of a mile. Sande, who rode Zev to a victory over the English horse Papyrus last October, kept Bracadale at a fast pace all the way around the track. He was always in the lead for the first mile. It is possible that he intended to break the spirit of the other horses and clear the way for Bracadale's stablemate, Mad Play, ridden by a well-known...
...beaten. In the Paumonok Handicap with Zev (most popular American gee-gee since he beat Britain's Papyrus last year) a hot favorite, George D. Widener's St. James covered the six furlongs in 1 min. 11⅔ sec. (the fastest time ever run in the race), winning from Zev by four lengths...
...James H. Breasted, in the spot-light for his thankless task of peace-making in the TutankhAmen controversy, has published through the New York Historical Society a bulletin on an Egyptian papyrus of 1600 B. C., owned by the Society, the oldest scientific book in America. The roll is over 15 feet long, 13 inches high, and written on both sides. It deals with the medical and surgical practice of the Egyptians. The author was not a quack or magician, but a serious medical scholar. The deciphering of the papyrus by Dr. Breasted was made doubly difficult by technical terminology...
Steve Donoghue, famed English jockey who rode Papyrus against Zev (TIME, Oct. 22): "Despatches from India stated that I 'have achieved only moderate success in recent races' in that country. 'He has not won any one of the really important events...
...Ford Sinclair is one of the largest oil operators in the world with wealth estimated in hundreds of millions. He was one of the chief backers of the now defunct Federal League, which tried to buck organized baseball. He owns the Rancocas racing stables, to which Zev, victor over Papyrus, belongs. Now he is in Europe "indefinitely...