Word: traversed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week will be held the 65th running of the $25,000 Travers Stakes, oldest horse-race in the U. S. When the Saratoga meeting opened, it looked as if the Travers would bring together Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's 3-year-old champion Cavalcade and Joseph E. Widener's...
That compromise, however, has not yet been brought back for a vote, because the potent Navy lobby is bitterly opposing the jumping of Commander Calver over his seagoing seniors. Washington private practitioners resent Dr. Calver's free treatment to Congressional secretaries, wives, families, visitors. However, he gives non-members...
Colonel Smith, the epitome of an old-time sporting man, never talks back to a lady who also happens to be his employer. He knew that this particular lady was immensely pleased with the handsome way he has handled her horses this year and last. In 1927 Mrs. Sloane, with...
The Race. The Kentucky Derby is not the oldest U. S. horse race. Saratoga's Travers Stakes was first run in 1864. The Derby, with its added money reduced this year from $50,000 to $30,000, does not offer the richest stakes. More lucrative for horse owners are...
Died. William Travers Jerome, 74, New York County's famed Tammany-baiting district attorney (1901-09); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. He was elected district attorney on a fusion ticket, clung on for a second term despite a Tammany comeback in 1905. A consummate showman with an acid tongue, he...