Word: stablemen
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...pail, Silky is what stablemen call a "good doer." He eats like a horse. But the feed never turns to fat; it only stokes Silky's fires. He burns it up according to the dictates of his own four-footed psyche; his jockey is only along for the ride. He breaks from the gate like a common sprinter, races 70 yds., then lags as if his safety valve had popped. Wags in the press box contend that he is a ham who hates to leave the grandstand. And it is a heart-stopping fact to bettors that he begins...
...tried to teach their son that he was an American, pure and simple. Between them, they established a solid little trucking business, came to own a stable of 14 horses. They lived in a comfortable if modest first-floor apartment, with their stables out back. De Sapio recalls the stablemen "often taking a short cut with the horses through the hall." Young Carmine helped out in the stables, brushed and curried the horses "until you could see your shadow in their coats," and entered them in the annual parade for work teams up Fifth Avenue (he won a blue ribbon...
...turned out that this was youth and inexperience, as harmless as chickenpox; in his convalescent state he realized that stablemen didn't need company as much as they needed better living accommodations. During the three years he was president of Belmont Park, he fought the favoritism the big stables got, and put in shower rooms and sleeping facilities in the public stables. He still listens to advice, even from newspapermen, but it just goes into the general fund...
After staggering through this night marsh inning, which saw the Stablemen collect six singles, a walk, two stolen bases, and a home run, the Jumbo pitcher, Kidder, settled down and hurled two-hit ball over the last four frames. But the damage was done, and the Stahlmen had clinched their third straight victory...
Most active wire-puller against Lewis was foxy Daniel J. Tobin, head of the Federation's biggest union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen & Helpers. Tobin is not without his own A.F. of L. presidential ambitions, has long been the Democrats' Hutcheson. On behalf of his good friend Franklin Roosevelt and of himself, Tobin wants to keep Lewis isolated...