Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arthur Byron ("A. B.") Jenks is a ruddy, 6-ft., grey-haired onetime shoe manufacturer and Manchester, N. H. banker who, after retiring from business, devoted himself to his wife's favorite game of golf so assiduously that in 1930 and 1932 he was on a U. S. Senior Golf Association's team that crossed the ocean to play in England. One day last summer, some of Golfer Jenks's cronies at the Manchester Country Club, observing that no one had yet filed for the Republican Congressional primaries in their district, egged on their friend...
...lead in the back stretch, the crowd of 35,000 was on its feet, cheering one of the quickest-stepping fields ever seen in a Hambletonian. Then one horse began to pull away from the ruck. It was not, as many hoped, favorite DeSota. It was the Hanover Shoe Farms' bay filly Shirley Hanover, priced at 10-to-1, and she flashed away from the field in the homestretch, past Schnapps, past Farr, crossing the line in 2 min., 1½ sec. Track oldsters yipped with excitement. If Shirley Hanover could win the second heat, she would...
This performance not only set a Hambletonian record and enriched Shirley Hanover's 39-year-old owner, Lawrence Baker Sheppard, by $20,916 of the $38,000 purse, but made his Hanover Shoe Farms the only two-time winner in the history of the race. Shirley Hanover's dam, Hanover's Bertha, carried the stable's orange colors to victory in 1930. That was four years after Lawrence Sheppard, Father H. D. Sheppard and C. N. Myers, partners in the thriving ($4) Hanover Shoe Co. (128 stores), founded Hanover Shoe Farms near the Sheppard homestead...
...winning the 1935 Hambletonian. Two days before last week's Hambletonian, Greyhound raced against the watch at Goshen in 1:58¼, once more failing to break the 1:56¾ world record set in 1922 at Lexington by famed Peter Manning. Now retired at Hanover Shoe Farms for sentimental reasons, 21-year-old Peter Manning is a gelding...
...Yonkers, N. Y., Rev Verlynn Sprague was having his shoes shined by a young bootblack. One shoe finished, a policeman ambled by, ordered the boy to "scram." The boy departed. Mr. Sprague protested he was not satisfied with half a shoeshine. The policeman accused him ot interfering with an officer in performance of duty, arrested him for disorderly conduct...