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...ahead of Whiskolo who ran second to him in the Texas Derby. Nellie Flag, favorite when an intermittent drizzle started to put a skim of mud on the track, ran fourth. Other favored horses-Today, who bruised a heel day before the race; Boxthorn, who had a sentimental following; Plat Eye, who tired after a mile-were far back in the field...
...international dispute that condensation of the story has been very difficult. Wisely the author has confined himself to a survey of only the more important nations, such as the A B C powers, with more detailed investigations into such major issues as the control of the Rio de in Plat and the balance of power on the Pacific coast...
...main track at Belmont Park, N. Y. a brown belt of mud as 14 2-year-olds were saddled for the richest race in the world, the $100,000 Futurity. At the start, almost out of sight of the grandstand, Rosemont took the lead. Balladier, Chance Sun and Plat Eye caught Rosemont as the field crossed the main track. Then Joseph E. Widener's Chance Sun shot out ahead, opened a gap of four lengths between himself and Colonel Edward R. Bradley's Balladier by the time they reached the finish. The favorite, Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane...
...last two weeks of the meet will be the Sanford, the Grand Union Hotel and the Hopeful. In these are entered Boxthorn and Balladier who have this year helped to make Colonel Bradley the leading owner at the track. They will run against Mrs. Payne Whitney's Plat Eye and "Sonny" Whitney's Today. The meet will close on Sept. 1 with the famed Saratoga Cup, for 3-year-olds and up, in which Cavalcade may be well enough to run. Mr. Whitney's 6-year-old Equipoise, who has earnings of $333,960 to his credit, is eligible...
...tenable only if all classes become socially and economically minded. "An Ideal Diet cannot yet be defined," observed Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins speaking as a professional biochemist, because "factors still unknown contribute to normal nutrition." Garbaged Farm Lands. To provide more arable land for England, Francis Maurice Gustavus Du-Plat-Taylor, dock and reclamation engineer, urged that London's house refuse and sludge from sewage disposal plants be deposited upon marsh and mud lands. London sludge, which now is hauled out to sea, amounts to three million tons yearly. House refuse reaches 1,500,000 tons yearly. Tooth Crystals...