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Divorced. Victor Emanuel, 35, president of U. S. Electric Power Corp., turfman (his entry ran third in last summer's Epsom Derby); by Dorothy Elizabeth Woodruff Emanuel; in Reno. Grounds: desertion...
...Turfman Willis Sharpe Kilmer, owner of world's largest money-winner Sun Beau ($356,044), hired the handlers of the late famed Australian gelding Phar Lap- Trainer Treve ("Tommy") Woodcock, Veterinary Walter Nielsen and Jockey Willie Elliot will be given a free hand with eight or ten Kilmer horses. Unlike U. S. trainers who give their horses stiff, frequent tests for speed, Australia's Trainer Woodcock believes in long loping canters to build stamina, stretch muscles. Rich, hearty Turfman Kilmer was not rich until after he had built up his father's proprietary medicine business (Swamp-root...
Twenty-five fine horses were "guests" at a testimonial dinner to rich Turfman Joseph E. Widener, president of the Westchester Racing Association, in Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore. The ballroom on the 19th floor of the hotel was made to look like Belmont Park. L. I., famed racecourse of which Mr. Widener is principal owner. Around the walls ran a pictured panorama of the course. In the foreground, near the tables occupied by some 300 guests in evening dress, was an actual reproduction of a corner of the park, complete to turf, a stretch of straightaway, white-painted railing...
Died, Lieut. -Colonel Solomon ("Solly") Barnato Joel, 65, famed British turfman, slum-born, director of Barnato Bros. & Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Co., mighty syndicates which control the world's diamond output and fix diamond prices; after a long illness; at Moulton Paddocks, Newmarket, England...
Died. George J. Long, 77, oldtime turfman, twotime winner of the Kentucky Derby (Azra, 1892; Sir Huon, 1906); at Louisville, Ky.; of heart disease...