Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Prix de Rome is not a horse race but a prize, valued at $8,000, yearly awarded to one U. S. painter and one U. S. sculptor. If he wins the prize, an artist goes to Rome and lives there at the rate of $1,600 a year for three years; his models, tuition and transportation are paid for. Last week, this year's winners were announced; one was Donald M. Mattison, student at the up-and-coming Yale School of Fine Arts, who won the prize for painting. The other was Sculptor David K. Rubins who works...
...since 1909, when King Edward's Minoru won the Derby, has a Royal horse taken a race in England. Last week King George jumped up in a box at Newmarket, the Prince of Wales waved his hat, and the crowd yelled as Scuttle, the King's three-year-old filly, worked up smoothly to pass Lord Dewar's Jurisdiction and win the Thousand Guineas Stakes, worth $5,000 to the winner. Next morning every paper in London printed a picture of the King with a broad smile on his face...
Dunois, Capron, Bordelais, Renaud-all with shrivelled hams, bald or bleached heads, varicose veins, and wrinkled phizzes-ran three kilometres in Paris in a race for men over 70 years old. Dunois, smallest and youngest, won. Said he: "I am old, it is true, but I am tough...
...that things in rowing, more than in any other sport, are decided by training methods, considered the theories and personalities of the various coaches. Most discussed last week was Edward O. Leader (Yale), gruff and domineering, who has built his crew out of meagre material. A week before the race at Philadelphia he found a stroke, Woodruff Rankin Tappen. He believes that Yale will row in the Olympics...
Vernon Munroe '31, captain of the first year team, was the individual star of the meet, taking first place in both the 440 and the 220. In the longer race Munroe held back and helped to pull his teammates. H. S. Freedman '31 and J. P. Gray '31 through in second and third places respectively. The Crimson also made a clean sweep in the furlong with A. L. Watkins '31 and W. C. Rowe '31 following their captain across the line in that order R. C. Aldrich '31, P. S. Dalton '31, and H. D. Everett '31, swelled the Crimson...