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Sheldon Clark, Chicago sportsman, another Sinclair vice president, who had left Washington on the eve of the jury-tampering charges, turned up at home, protested his innocence, said he would return to Washington...
Payne Whitney, famed financier & sportsman, died last May. Last week to his place as Steward of the Jockey Club (Manhattan) was elected Harry Payne Whitney, his brother, famed financier & sportsman...
...satisfying to see that he is fully as good as his word, if not better. He is not satisfied with attacking the superintendent of schools, who seems to be practically a member of the British Secret Service but he has appointed Mr. U. J. Hermann, a well known sportsman, to search every history book in the public library for traces of the "British taint", or in brief, to go gunning for the British lion...
...Vermonters also agreed that the courtesy and help which they had received from the crimson managers and their assistants and also the sportsman ship on both the field and in the locker room was remarkable...
...team and played & lost a single game to the British. Two years later international polo really started when a team headed by Foxhall Keene of Philadelphia was formally exported, won the first game and lost the next two. Soon Harry Payne Whitney took a hand. This famed sportsman opened a thor- ough preparatory drive to beat Britain, selected his team, schooled his ponies over a period of years. In 1909 the "Big Four," Whitney, Monty and Larry Waterbury, and Milburn, sailed for England and drubbed Britain, in two straight games. Since then there have been five challenges, and four...