Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Board was $2,225,000 in debt. The proposal to reduce its missionary work by 25% was promptly rejected. What to do? Up stood Dr. L. O. Hartman, Editor of the onetime Zion's Herald. He proposed that every member of the Board should give his gold watch to the cause. Luther B. Wilson, famed Bishop, at once saw the point. He took out his watch, went to the table, laid it down. In the pocket of Bishop Grose ticked the timepiece of the late James W. Bashford,* Bishop of Peking, who put Methodism on the Oriental side...
Eleven starters competed for the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park. At 4 o'clock on a summery afternoon the bugle blew and 50,000 eyes turned to the gate from the paddock to watch the procession up the track. At the starting post Harry F. Sinclair's Mad Play, the favorite, Sande up, drew inside position. Up shot the barrier with a deafening roar from the stands as the horses simultaneously broke to a splendid start. Mad Play gained an immediate lead by saving ground in rounding the first turn. Hard pressed for the whole 1⅛ miles...
...Crew and the Freshmen, in which the former won by one and three-quarters lengths. It was nip and tuck all the way and the whole camp, which turned out in a body to see the encounter from the launches and from automobiles along the bank, had plenty to watch...
...trials will start at 2.30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Already several thousand tickets have been sold at the H. A. A. ticket offices, and it is expected that when the first starting gun is fired tomorrow, a crowd of fully 5000 will be present to watch the athletes from 31 different colleges struggle to qualify in the preliminaries for the championship races on Saturday afternoon...
...Derby. The purse was $52,775. Second was $6,000; third, $3,000; fourth, $1,000. In addition, a gold cup was given to the owner of the winner and to the winning jockey went the customary pair of gold spurs. Black Gold's trainer received a gold stop watch. The weight carried by the horses was 126 pounds. The event was open only to three-year-olds. Glide, the only fill entered for the race was withdrawn the night before. There were 19 colts competing. Black Gold paid $5.50 on a $2 mutuel ticket...