Word: sportsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among those with reason to be happy about Russian Hero's victory were Sportsman-Farmer William Williamson, his owner, who had bet ?10 on him at 300 to 1 in the winter books, collected a cool $12,000. Also prideful was the London Daily Worker's handicapper, who had picked Russian Hero to win, insisting that the tip was not purely political, just a bettor's hunch...
...Vulcan's Forge, a horse recently sold by Millionaire Sportsman C. V. ("Sonny") Whitney for $80,000, got it all back in one lump for his new owner, I. J. Collins of Lancaster, Ohio, by winning the world's richest race-the Santa Anita Handicap (value to the winner...
...game in the '20s, after thrice winning the National Amateur three-cushion billiards championship, matched an uncanny card sense with a ruthless application of psychology and technical skill to become one of the world's outstanding players. A longtime rival of Culbertson, Sims was a born sportsman and amateur gambler (whist, golf, poker, tennis, horses), once played 59 straight hours of bridge...
...million pounds' worth of paintings and prints, and the ?400,000 mansion (renamed Hutchinson House) which housed them had been presented to the British nation. The bestowal had been made, as the gallery's catalogue said, by "Mr. Walter Hutchinson, the famous master-publisher, master-printer and sportsman, who has overcome all difficulties, and now stands before the public as a princely benefactor of quite remarkable distinction...
Bill DeWitt had his reasons. Chief among them: the Browns own St. Louis' $1,200,000 Sportsman's Park (which they rent to the Cardinals for $35,000 a season) and a new $721,000 ballpark in San Antonio. Before anybody got impudent enough to ask whose money he used to buy the Browns, Bill firmly announced: "There are no associates in this thing with us. It's all Charlie and myself...