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...Henry Townley Heald, chancellor of New York University. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D...
...president of the Alliance the messengers elected scholarly Dr. F Townley Lord, pastor of Bloomsbury Central Church in London, England, where the Alliance will meet for its Golden Anniversary...
John Barton Townley, 34, is a rich Englishman with a Falstaffian laugh and a weak heart. Because of the heart, his doctor advised him to give up golf and rugger. So Townley, having studied the racing sheets as well as law at Cambridge, bought some race horses. Last week, at Newmarket, his weak heart thumped and bumped under a strain that might have told on stronger...
...horse Sterope had just won the Cambridgeshire Stakes. The purse was a mere $12,273, but Townley stood to win a staggering $600,000 in bets. And the jockey on Royal Tara, which finished second, had claimed a foul against his horse. What if Townley's horse had won only to be disqualified...
...planned the coup carefully. First, the horse was bought last July for about ?4,000 with only the Cambridgeshire in mind. The tough, hilly Newmarket course was studied foot by foot so that the jockey could be told "where to do what" far in advance. Townley bet his money strategically, in driblets spread among more than 80 bookmakers. He got some money on at 50 to 1, some more al 40. Then the price eased off to 33. Sterope went to the post at 25 to 1. Altogether Townley bet about $16,000 on him to win -and Sterope...