Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When European Jews visit the U. S. they scrutinize members of their race with special interest. Last week the Christian Century published the observations of Deputy Gruenbaum of Warsaw...
Twenty-four hours later, the Goodyear balloon containing Pilot Ward T. Van Orman and his assistant, W. W. Morton, descended on the beach near Bar Harbor, Me. (715 miles from Akron). It had floated a greater distance than any of the other 14-thereby winning the National Elimination Balloon Race and the right to represent the U. S. in the Gordon Bennett Trophy (international) race in the autumn. Second and third places went to the Detroit Flying Club entry and the Army No. 3 balloon from Scott Field, Ill., who respectively floated to Skowhegan, Me. (665 miles) and Biddeford...
Since riding Harry Payne Whitney's Whiskery to victory in the Kentucky Derby, Jockey Linus ("Pony") McAtee has twice broken into the news in unconventional fashion. A fortnight ago, he won a one-horse race ("walkover") at Belmont Park, N. Y. Last week, he escaped death because he wore a metal and fibre helmet. He was riding the capricious two-year-old colt, Silenus, which bolted through a temporary fence and crashed in a heap against a permanent fence at Belmont Park. While struggling to crawl out from under Silenus, Jockey McAtee received a swift kick in the helmet...
...dentist's assistant in Capetown, South Africa, had a valuable slip of paper in his pocket. Some 300,000 people were watching 23 horses. It was Derby Day at Epsom Downs, where hills scallop the landscape and a dimple among them makes a natural bowl for a race course...
...Sweepstakes are virtual lotteries. Hundreds of thousands of prices tickets are sold, all numbered, at prices seldom above ?1 ($5). The total ticket sale, less operator's percentage, is the prize money. Numbers are drawn for the horses entered in the race. The vast majority of ticketholders, failing to "draw a horse" lose their bets. The dozen or so lucky subscribers can sell shares in their tickets for large sums, thus profiting certainly before the horses have won, lost or failed...