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...Public School No. 153, where playmates were bringing Christmas gifts to their teachers, 8-year-old Alonso Romero, son of Mexican Ambassador to Venezuela Dr. Miguel Alonso Romero, presented his teacher with a 2½-carat diamond ring. The teacher had Alonso and the ring taken to the Sheepshead Bay police station where Alonso explained he had found it on the sidewalk outside his home. Worth $900, it was identified as one recently reported missing...
Such was Sloan's prowess that when the late William Collins Whitney in 1900 determined to beat his Wall Street rival, the late James R. Keene, in the Futurity at Sheepshead Bay at any cost, he sent to England for Tod Sloan. It cost him the traveling expenses of the jockey and his absurd retinue, plus a reputed fee of $25,000. Astride Financier Whitney's Ballyhoo Bey, Sloan won a masterful race, quickly returned to his glories abroad. His downfall came when the English Jockey Club revoked his license on charges that...
...Sloan still had barrels of money. He spent it with enormous gusto on a Sheepshead Bay mansion, a yacht, roulette, dice, loud clothes, parties at Shanley's, Rector's, Delmonico's. In 1907 he married Musicomedienne Julia Sanderson who divorced him a year later. Most of his fortune vanished in Wall Street because he attempted to "play" along with the rich men for whom he had ridden...
...blustering day two years ago David Warshauer, 31, Brooklyn truckman, and his brother-in-law, Irving Tuchyner, set out from Oceanside. L. I. in a 16-ft. motorboat, headed for Sheepshead Bay. The wind swept them off their course, far out to sea. Their gasoline gave out, they drifted for five days without food or water. On the sixth day, according to Warshauer, they sighted the S. S. Conte Biancamano, crack passenger liner of the Lloyd Sabaudo Line. When the steamer came within hailing distance, the castaways waved distress signals, shouted for help. Passengers and crew waved back, they said...
...parchment inscribed in Latin, which probably he could not read. It was not for the privilege of writing "A.B." after his name, in that manner which often indicates, not only that he who does it owns a sheepskin, but also is himself, a "sheepshead...