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...betting windows rushed a fortunate few to collect $43 for every $2 wager, longest Derby odds since 1918. Bold Venture earned $37,725, got a blanket of roses, the privilege of having his name on the Churchill Downs gate five panels away from that of his half-brother Twenty Grand, winner in 1931. Jockey Hanford, undismayed by a 15-day suspension given him for "rough riding," chortled: "They've suspended me? They've set me down? Well, I guess I'll go out in the barn and spend the 15 days feeding sugar to that horse...
...believer in the virtues of Horatio Alger. On one occasion when a Texas friend lost his favorite dog, Colonel Phillips dispatched a "blue-blooded" Irish setter to replace the loss, shipping the animal in a special plane piloted by "America's Flying Stenographer." Even better publicized was his wager of a diamondback terrapin dinner that Walter P. Chrysler could not raise ten tons of tomatoes on one of Mr. Chrysler's neighboring acres (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934). Mr. Chrysler lost. Lately the Colonel's large face and broad shoulders have been appearing in Phillips soup advertising...
...JOHN F. WAGER...
...Fisher-Up to the witness stand marched Wager Fisher of Bryn Mawr...
...holds patents and copyrights) was the natural climax for a lifetime spent trying to improve and rearrange the purposes of other pastimes and occupations. He began by using a golf ball & driver to knock over bowling pins. He once bowled 228 balls in an hour. He won a wager by playing 18 holes of golf in 40 min., 45 sec., after wearing out three caddies, five scorers. He played 154 holes of golf in a day, stopped lest younger members of his club find his example an encouragement to overexertion. During an influenza epidemic. Dr. Code made 1,600 calls...