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...mount, Turkish Delight, at Dublin's Phoenix Park in 1907, was a winner, but Jockey Donoghue did not become a familiar figure to British enthusiasts until he won the Cambridgeshire at Newmarket three years later. In 1915 he was entrusted with a Derby favorite. S. Joel's Pommern, and won-a performance he repeated two years later with Gay Crusader. In 1921 Jockey Donoghue became a British hero when he brought in his third Derby winner, the 6-to-1 shot Humorist, who dropped dead from heart failure six weeks after the race. The following year, when...
...coveted prize offered by the Jockey Club of England to the jockey who wins the Derby three times in succession. Donoghue won the 1921 race on J. B. Joel's Humorist and the 1922 race on Lord Woolavington's Captain Cuttle. His other wins were: 1915, S. Joel's Pommern; 1917, Mr. " Fairie's " Gay Crusader...
...Clayton speaks in the Union tonight from a far-reaching experience in the study of conditions of the air and also from a large amount of practical experience in ballooning. He was in the German balloon "Pommern" which last year won the international long distance race from St. Louis, landing at Asbury Park, New Jersey, and it was said that this remarkable flight was due in large measure to Mr. Clayton's intimate knowledge of the upper air currents. His experience thus has been practical as well as theoretical and his observations on "Navigating the Air" will be of great...
...Clayton was in the German Army balloon "Pommern" which recently won the international race from St. Louis to Asbury Park, New Jersey, and his knowledge of the upper air currents was greatly instrumental in winning the victory. This knowledge has been gained by Mr. Clayton during a long period of research work. In 1885, after a year's experience as assistant at the Ann Arbor Astronomical Observatory, he became assistant at the Harvard Observatory, where he made many meteorological observations. In 1886 he became observer at Blue Hill Observatory, and with the exception of three years as local forcast official...
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