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...stocky Governor Horner did not find his task easy. Strictly a good-government man, he supported an Honest Elections Bill which was opposed by old Boss Patrick A. Nash's Democratic machine, vetoed another measure which would have empowered Chicago's Mayor Edward J. Kelly to license race-track handbooks...
What the Morning Telegraph is to race-track addicts in New York, L'Auto is to sports enthusiasts in Paris. Last fortnight, L'Auto published a letter by Didier Poulain, its tennis expert, denouncing famed Jean Borotra for "letting France down" by not playing singles on France's Davis Cup team. Jean Borotra promptly replied with a letter denouncing Sportswriter Poulain. Last week, the Borotra v. Poulain controversy became a subject of international excitement when Sportswriter Poulain sent Tennist Borotra a challenge to a duel which Tennist Borotra, at Wimbledon for the 55th All-England Championships, angrily...
...Jockey Club stewards and other race-track notables, who make a habit of stopping at Max Hirsch's Belmont Park cottage on summer mornings for breakfasts of hot bread and ham & eggs, his frail-looking, sad-eyed 22-year-old daughter is usually called "Miss Mary." She rises at 5, spends the morning at the track, goes to the races in the afternoon, to bed at 9. She owns three dogs: cocker spaniel, pointer and Dalmatian. She wants to stud)' aviation, has never ridden in the show-ring or to hounds. This summer she expects officially to train...
Garr had his ups & downs, of course. Once or twice he was outbluffed. A race-track owner who had threatened to shoot Garr if his name was ever mentioned in the Chronicle started to act on his threat, camped in an office across the street with a rifle in his lap, waiting for Garr to appear. Warned in time, Garr sneaked in a back entrance. Day after day the patient rifleman waited. After a week's slinking Garr, worried lest the story of his plight leak out and raise a laugh at his expense, called off his ambusher...
...smartest gaming place in the land, makes per year Col. Bradley is reluctant to state. Some say $5,000,000. Col. Bradley became interested in horses 35 years ago when his doctor advised him to retire and live in the country. Now he owns the New Orleans race-track in addition to his properties in Chicago and Palm Beach. With no children of his own, he takes a charitable interest in orphans, holds a race-meeting for their benefit at Idle Hour Farm each autumn. Bland, dignified and equipped with a genuine Kentucky accent to match his genuine Kentucky colonelcy...