Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Half of the race was over last week, and Whiskery was looking like one of those who also-ran. Far ahead were Jock of Publisher Edward B. McLean's stable and Osmond of Joseph E. Widener's and a dozen other three-year-olds. Then Jockey McAtee crouched low and hugged; Whiskery began to whisk until he whisked across the finish line, a nose ahead of Osmond. Jock was third...
Linus ("Pony") McAtee, 29. is a jockey. Nature had made him dark and small?but not quite lean enough for a jockey. Sometimes he had to take off so much weight before a race that he felt his skin did not quite fit him. This was hard on his health, made his complexion sallow and his digestive system awry. Nevertheless, he was considered one of the best jockeys of the Harry Payne Whitney stables. People were surprised last year when he suddenly left Mr. Whitney. He had a reason...
...crews competing in today's regatta drew lanes yesterday. Lane number one is nearest the Cambridge wall. The order of the races, with the lanes, is as follows, with the first race scheduled to begin at 3.30 o'clock, and the others following at approximately half-hour intervals...
...will be the closest race of the day, and again Paulsen and Miller will fight it out for first place and I am going to commit an act of heresy by predicting that Paulsen will nose out Miller, and Lundell will be third. In the Quarter Mile I can't see anybody but Ross of Yale with Malick and Peet of Harvard second and third, the time 49 3-5 seconds...
...Hurdles we will have to concede to Yale's four timber toppers, Sheldon, Edwards. Campbell or Game. In the Low Hurdles, a radical prediction will be amade, Sherman of Yale should win, out I'am placing Tupper of Harvard second ahead of Edwards. Tupper never ran a Low Hurdles race before the Interclass Meet two weeks ago, and his showing against Dartmouth's hurdlers last week gives one enough confidence to place him second...