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Cristalina, the principal variety of sugar cane cultivated commercially In Cuba, is an excellent, all-round cane for general plantings. This variety fails, however, to give a high yield on dry uplands, and the ratoon or sprout plants have a tendency to deteriorate rather rapidly year by year on land which has been for a very long time under cane cultivation...
...months before the Derby one horse was talked of more than any other-Reigh Count, son of Sun Reigh and Contesina. Rumors had gone round that he had lost weight early in the spring, that his time trials were misquoted, that he had pulled a tendon, that he had been poisoned, but although everyone repeated the rumors few believed them. Reigh Count went to the post at 8 to 5. And on a sodden track at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Ky., in front of 80,000 people, Reigh Count won the Derby by three lengths...
There were several Americans left now and one more Frenchwoman-Mlle. Manette Le Blan. Miss Collett got to the fourth round where she played a tired little woman by the name of Wragg who came out on the first tee wearing hornrimmed spectacles, a leather jacket with a sweater under it, woolen stockings, thick shoes, and woolen gloves. Miss Collett, always natty, had on a thin blue raincoat. Warm and ugly, Miss Wragg kept her ball in the middle of the course. Miss Collett stopped before each shot to warm her fingers with her breath. "How do you feel?" asked...
...each of the four class tournaments will now engage in an interclass contest, the first round of which must be completed by tomorrow night...
Jurado's gallery was thinning away. The people were more interested in Sarazen who still had a chance to tie Hagen. They were talking about Hagen's morning round -how he had topped his brassie at the seventh but hit his mashie two feet from the pin, how he had holed a four at Maiden, gone out in 33, home...