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Morose-looking Owner Ralph Verhurst sat outside a stall in Stable C at Chicago's Sportsman's Park one night last week and gazed critically at an eight-year-old brown mare named Proximity. He shifted his unlit cigar, his 225-lb. bulk, got up slowly and fed the mare a lump of sugar. He was asked, "How does she look?" Belgian-born Ralph Verhurst, who has been trotting Proximity since she was a three-year-old, was characteristically pessimistic: "Bad, bad. I don't think she's got it." Owner Verhurst happily turned...
When the time came for the first heat of the $15,000 Sportsman's Trot, Verhurst harnessed Proximity to her 36-lb. sulky, turned the rest of the job over to Driver Clint Hodgins, 37, who had flown from Manhattan for the race. At the start, Proximity spurted to the rail slot, was unchallenged until the final stretch turn of the two-lap mile heat. There, the 1948 Hambletonian winner, Demon Hanover, started pressing. Hodgins felt Demon Hanover coming, whipped Proximity hard. She outlasted the bid, won by a head...
Through A Sportsman's Notebook wanders a central character, a game hunter who is presumably Turgenev himself. Gradually he comes to know the masters and peasants, the clerks and traders of the neighborhood in which he shoots. The sketches begin and end on a hushed note, soft with the echoes of a summer day in the forest. Turgenev makes his points mutely rather than melodramatically...
...environment. And some of his best stories have nothing to do with serfdom: The Singers, a rousing account of a singing duel between a peasant and a tradesman which ends in a drunken debauch, and Bezhin Meadow, a tender portrait of a group of boys whom the sportsman meets one evening...
...ever teen able to match. He never imposes himself on his characters, never plays ricks on them or the reader. It is this tone of creative tact which so impressed two American storytellers, Sherwood Anderson and Ernest Hemingway, when they first looked for literary models. Anderson once called A Sportsman's Notebook "the sweetest thing in all literature."* If he exaggerated...