Word: turf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chuckled Trainer August ("Sarge") Swenke, World War I hero and one of the turf's inveterate gamblers, who persuaded Lawyer Sabath to put out $700 for the Good Goods colt: "Alsab's going to make the old Sarge a great trainer...
Last week Tropical opened with unprecedented fanfare. The Whitneys, the Wideners, the Woodwards and even Mrs. Shipwreck Kelly (Brenda Frazier) rubbed elbows with the turf's tinhorn sports. Reason: Florida's "friendly track" was recently purchased by a group of polo-playing, hunt-club socialites headed by Baltimorean Henry L. Straus. M.F.H., and the millionaire Munns (Gurnee and Charles Alexander) of Washington, Palm Beach and Paris...
...route to California's Santa Anita Park this week are six little Biscuits, going on two years old. The first get of famed Seabiscuit, biggest money winner in turf history, they will make their racing debuts some time during the Santa Anita season (Dec. 31 to March 14), will try to prove they are of the same dough. Their names: Sea Covey, Sea Patrol, Sea Skipper, Sea Mite, Sea Frolic, Sea Belle...
...members of the Crimson starting eleven will be going onto that field for their final game, and they'll be going with but one intention--that of writing a brilliant final chapter to their three years of Varsity football by smashing the Elis and grinding them into the Stadium turf in a manner reminiscent of last year's 28 to 0 victory...
Harlow appears plenty worried about the forthcoming tussle with his former assistant and says that Hank Margarita, Stahley's star runner, and Dan Savage, passer extraordinaire, are two of the best performers of their particular art that have ever seen the Stadium turf this season. They are both 175-pound Sophomores...