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...feet till it reaches Tattenham Corner, slopes downhill to a level stretch, then rises at the finish. Tattenham Cor- ner, named after a manor house which mysteriously disappeared, is a dangerous hairpin turn with a sharp downdrop. At the start of the race, Hyperion's jockey, Tommy Weston, let his stablemate Thrapston take the lead. On Thrapston was Steve Donoghue, winner of six derbies, the oldtimer who rode Papyrus in his match race against Zev in the U. S. ten years ago. Donoghue's instructions were to win if he could, but otherwise to set the pace...
Thrapston kept the lead, with Hyperion galloping two lengths behind, till the race rounded Tattenham Corner. There Thrapston lagged. Weston shouted to Donoghue to pull over. Instantly Hyperion shot ahead on the inside rail, with King Salmon pounding at his heels. Once he began to slow up, but at a single crack from the whip he raced away from the field, plunged over the line four lengths ahead of King Salmon, splitting two-fifths of a second off the Derby record. King Salmon, the entry of Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, finished second; Statesman, owned by ambitious Victor Emanuel, president...
William Alexander Kellogg '36 of Weston was named Freshman baseball manager, and Henry Bray Sawyer Jr. '36 of Winchester was chosen assistant Freshman manager on Saturday...
MURDER ON SHADOW ISLAND-Garnett Weston-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Multiple murders in the Thousand Islands, with discovery based on a single clue...
...Weston, professor of Botany, will explain the purpose of the meeting and announce the list of laboratories open to student inspection at 7.45 o'clock in the lecture hall. Four laboratories in each of the three departments, physiology, botany, and zoology will be open...