Word: race
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pricked by reports that gambling would be "wide open" at Saratoga Springs during this season's Diamond Jubilee race meeting, Lieutenant Governor Charles Poletti of New York last week gave assurance that nothing of the sort would be allowed; in Governor Herbert Lehman's absence on vacation, his office would expect the law to be enforced. As in years gone by, Saratoga's gambling public was thus obliged to bank its own games in its own parlors, or travel by night to hideouts...
...Virginia's Democratic primary last week, Carter Glass Jr. lost out for the State Senate, but Andrew Mellon's son-in-law, David K. E. Bruce, won his race. It was the first try for each...
...were leading the National League by seven and a half games and the New York Yankees were leading the American League by eight. To most baseball fans this was not surprising. The majority of pre-season prognosticates had picked the Reds and Yankees as favorites in the 1939 pennant race. What was surprising were the names of the two pitchers who had so far been the push that put them in front: Bucky Walters and Atley Donald...
...games-five more than Derringer, twelve more than Grissom, 14 more than Vander Meer -and he was batting .338 to boot. He was not only the No. 1 pitcher of both major leagues but the difference between success and failure in the Reds' pennant race...
With business-like efficiency, Vanderbilt and his well-drilled crew went after the Tomahawk with which his arch-rival had hoped to scalp him. In the first race, sailed in a gale that sank one of the competing boats and drowned a seaman, Vim finished 37 minutes ahead of Tomahawk, but was disqualified for crowding Sopwith's sloop at the start. In the second race, Vim beat Tomahawk by 28 seconds, in the third by seven minutes, in the fourth by 51 seconds, in the fifth by eight minutes. When the flags came down at sunset on the last...