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Conceived five years ago and made possible as a tribute to Princeton's sport by a group of Princeton sportsmen headed by Henry Fairfield Osborn Jr., the canvases were the work of shy, spectacled William Yarrow, 43, no Princetonian, but a well-known portraitist who divided his time between Dublin, N. H. and Florence, Italy to compose the triumphs of the Orange & the Black. Big, bold figures drawn from undergraduate models with technical advice from coaches and team captains, Artist Yarrow's works depict a relay race in which Princeton has the inside track and a Yale runner...
That few Santa Anita sportsmen had the presence of mind to bet on Azucar ("Sugar," in Spanish) was not surprising. Seven-year-old son of Milesius-Clarice, he was one of the best steeplechasers in the U. S. Joseph E. Widener bought him in England as a yearling, raced him abroad for two years, shipped him to the U. S., had him trained for steeplechasing, sold him to Fred Alger for $8,000 last June. When Owner Alger's trainer observed that Azucar was outdistancing flat-racers in workouts, they decided to race him at Saratoga...
...poolroom near the university campus and began to lecture all his patrons on the satisfactions of his favorite sport. Undergraduates whose only thoughts of recreation had been inseparably associated with the whiskey jug found themselves being wheedled into the belief that boxing was a pastime fit for gentlemen and sportsmen. By 1922 Johnny La Rowe was assistant to the boxing coach. Before he became head coach in 1925, he also helped defray the expenses of the team. Last year, somewhat unwillingly, Coach La Rowe consented to accept a salary commensurate with his services. Now 67, confined to crutches...
...Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania last fortnight met the annual conference of the American Game Association. Prime question before the Conference was: should there be a closed season on ducks in 1935- 36? Ruddy-faced sportsmen argued it up & down meeting halls, corridors, bedrooms. Then a man who probably knows and cares more about conserving U. S. wild life than any other in the land stood up to tell the Conference what was what. Snapped famed Jay N. ("Ding") Darling, who left his highly-paid cartooning to become the Bureau of Biological Survey's $6,800-a-year chief...
...instrument is designed to be of value to sportsmen who would like to know, before starting a hunt, how nearly ideal the day is for their hounds to follow...