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Died. Gifford Alexander Cochran, 50, sportsman, onetime president of Alexander Smith & Sons, Yonkers, N. Y. carpet manufacturers; of hardening of the arteries, heart disease and acute alcoholism; in Manhattan. Retired from business, he was famed as the owner of many a great horse. In 1925 his Coventry and Flying Ebony (Earl Sande up) won two great races, the Preakness and the Kentucky Derby. In the past year his string (including Epithet, The Beasel, Flying Heels) won $147,920. In racing and in polo he was an associate of the late Harry Payne Whitney (TIME, Nov. 3). Afflicted last year with...
...confused with the late Henry Payne Whitney of Long Island and Manhattan, financier-sportsman (TIME...
...true that Mr. Grey was refused a permit to hunt bears out of season (TIME, Nov. 3). And why not? Should he be granted special privilege because he is Zane Grey? The government of our country is not founded on such basis. Realizing this, Mr. Grey, true sportsman that he is, has reconsidered his decision to leave Arizona...
...Yacht Club, founded Fore an' Aft, "class nautical magazine," as something of a hobby. Two years ago Charles Lanier Lawrance, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and John S. Reaves, potent figures in Aviation Country Clubs, decided that a magazine of quality would help interest the wealthy in flying, founded The Sportsman Pilot. Neither magazine made money. Last week both were purchased by gruff-voiced, genial Frank A. Tichenor whose business is publishing, who has made a success of his Aero Digest. Under Publisher Tichenor, The Sportsman Pilot will retain most of its present form. In Fore an' Aft increasing emphasis...
...Pearson, who had been much hurt by the civil bird war, heard the opposition through, defended his policies. He said that he was not ashamed to admit that he believes in cooperating with the sportsman. Wise hunters are more inter sted in conserving birds than are most other U. S. citizens, he believes...