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...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...
Bruised and bespattered, two doughty baseball nines pulled themselves together on the sodden paths of a Soldiers Field diamond late yesterday afternoon, exchanged lusty cheers, and dispersed homeward amid the plaudits of the on-looking through. All told it was one of the most rugged battles the Soldiers Field turf has seen in many a long day. CRIMSON and Lampoon rose in alternate waves of mighty valor; men went down to die for the glory of their teams, and others went down on top of them; hits, runs, errors were scattered with liberal hand by the gods through this...
...Show Down. Two toughened adventurers annoyed and battled with each other all over the world until at last they clamped together in the heat and sog of the tropics. The cause of the final brawl is Evelyn Brent. In a sodden camp on a Latin American oil field, four men gaze hotly at her. One is George Bancroft, alternately brute & gentleman, star of this affair. He hulks, and moralizes, fights, and suffers to no profit...
Salvage work on the S-4 was continued by 18 expert divers under Rear Admiral Frank H. Brumby. Seventeen shapes, sodden with oil and sea water, were retrieved, including the corpse of Lieut. Commander Jones. Twenty more "diving days" were needed to raise the hulk...
Brown house rats grew desperate in the London Basin" district, last week, as heavy rains flooded their lairs with seepage and made sodden the nests of mother rats. Father rats shortly held a conclave, or, if they did not, the surprising event which proceeded to occur was all the less explicable. Simultaneously, the rats and ratlings poured up from their cellars by tens, scores & hundreds, to hurry, drab and sopping, out to the old Lea Valley Road toward high, unflooded Epping Forest. Pedestrians and cyclists on the road did not pause or hold their ground as the pattering squealing rats...