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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fell at the third fence last year when he was one of the favorites, may be the first U. S.-owned & ridden horse to win at Aintree. Dusty Foot's jockey this week was to be his owner's friend, George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick, ablest gentleman rider in the U. S. Pete Bostwick went to England last autumn planning to ride one of his own steeplechasers in the Grand National, but his likeliest mount, Burglar, trained badly. Last week he accepted the Whitney horse...
...Guerre, sold bonds for a time, entered Virginia's Theological Seminary, was ordained in 1926. For the past six years "Big Tui" has been chaplain at U. S. Military Academy at West Point where-a tall, stalwart, one-time Virginia halfback, an able golfer, tennis player and rider-to-hounds-he is much admired and respected. Last week Chaplain Kinsolving got a new post, the deanship of Long Island Cathedral, which has been vacant since Very Rev. George Paull T. Sargent became rector of Manhattan's smart St. Bartholomew's.* Chaplain Kinsolving will take office as soon...
...Mills, 17, who finished the season with 196 winners, erroneously credited Jockey Gilbert witha record, because he had ridden more winners than Jockey Lee Hardy in 1927 (207). In 1908, Jockey Vincent Powers, now trainer of Mrs. Payne Whitney's steeplechasers, rode 324 winners. Jockey Walter Miller, stable rider for the late James R. Keene, famed for his skill in handling mounts at the barrier, won 388 races...
...modernist liberality. The election of Dr. Beaven would cause no such quiverings U. S. Churchmen know him well as an evangelical leader, on the safe side despite his joining with other Federal Council committee members in approving the use of contraceptives. Born in Idaho, son of a British circuit rider. Baptist Beaven went to Shurtleff College (Alton, Ill.), studied for the ministry on the Pacific Coast while earning a living chopping wood and scraping barnacles from boats in Puget Sound. He studied at Rochester Theological Seminary on a scholarship was graduated in 1909 to become pastor of Rochester...
HAGGARD (H. Rider) Maiwa's Revenge...