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...Indianapolis last week one Edwin Alson, a deputy Federal game warden, was hot under the collar. He made many a U. S. sportsman feel the same way by describing how advantage was taken of wild ducks on the Ohio River...
Died. Dr. John Emmans DeMund, 67, retired Brooklyn nose & throat specialist and sportsman, longtime (1923-32) president of the American Kennel Club, onetime Department of Justice secret agent; of heart disease, after long illness; in Montclair...
Because some of the listed objects were easier to acquire than others. Sportsman Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt was appointed to set handicaps. As the scavengers trooped back they deposited their trophies with Gene Tunney, Novelist Louis Bromneld, Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia, Banker Charles Hayden, Prince Lodovico Spada Varalli Potenziani, ex- Governor of Rome, who awarded prizes of $500, $300 and two cases of champagne. First to return were Mrs. John C. Waterbury & Nicholas Holmsen, who brought back a white goat, complete with keeper, and a red lantern. From his pocket resourceful Mr. Holmsen extracted a live turtle...
Although Equipoise was supposed to be retired to stud after his race last month at Havre de Grace, Sportsman Whitney welcomed the challenge. He stipulated, however, that Winooka should first prove himself "against one or more of our first-class Eastern horses . . in order to show the public his real quality." Manager Naylor was incensed at what he took as a "direct insult to Australian racing." but agreed to enter Winooka at Laurel last week. Meanwhile he continued negotiations over weights and distances for the prospective match with Equipoise. Mr. Whitney consented to race at seven furlongs (seven-eighths...
...looking for in Hemingway's latest book. Nobody now could mistake a Hemingway story for anything else. His language may appear hard-boiled but it is really a carefully artificial dialect. His subjects, as carefully chosen as his style, are almost always illustrations of the same theme: the sportsman caught in an unsportingly tight place and, with various versions of the Hemingway stiff upper lip, taking it like a sportsman. The motto on his title-page states his creed more explicitly than before: "Unlike all other forms of lutte or combat the conditions are that the winner shall take...