Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starting for the Crimson in the Epee this afternoon will be Hal Park, Bill Croach, and Jerry Dodge, with Les Miller a possible entry. Of the trio, Park is rated tops...
...Santa Anita, before the race, Owner Charles S. Howard refused an offer of $100,000 for Seabiscuit. Two other Owner Howards had horses running-Maxwell Howard (Stagehand) and Nelson Howard (Gosum)-but the crowd of 50,000 that surged into Santa Anita Park like the newly swollen Los Angeles River (see p. 16), knew the Howards apart. When the race was over, some of the crowd wished that they had confused them. Winner, after an exciting nose-after-nose struggle down the stretch, was not Charles S. Howard's Seabiscuit, but Maxwell Howard's young Stagehand, winner...
...Hialeah Park, before the race, War Admiral (whose arrival in Miami two months ago caused more excitement than that of any previous visitor except the President of the U. S.), was signed up for the movies. The 20,000 spectators, most of whom had come primarily to see War Admiral in his first big race as a four-year-old, were not disappointed. Oldsters for a moment thought they were watching Big Red, as War Admiral, imitating his famed sire, delayed the race by his shameful behavior at the starting gate, then flashed to the front in the first furlong...
Both at the White House and the Mayflower the show was cut. Omitted from both performances was a sketch, Little Red School House and a ballet, The General Is Unveiled. Omitted at the White House were Sunday in the Park, Men Awake, and What Good Is Love. Omitted at the Mayflower were political songs and skits, Call It Un-American, Four Little Angels of Peace, Mussolini Handicap. FTP Plowed Under, Public Enemy No. 1, and the dance Doing the Reactionary...
...Once Animal Psychologist Otto Wulf, author of a book about Kurwenal, set him a problem: "On the street there are nine houses. I live in the fifth house, reckoning from the park. When coming toward the park, in which house do I live?" Kurwenal thought a moment, yapped: "Fifth...