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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saratoga Springs, N. Y. over the two miles to Saratoga Spa last week swarmed horseowners, trainers, jockeys, stablemen, gamblers, tipsters, touts. In the same direction swarmed Saratoga storekeepers, hotel keepers, boarding house keepers, restaurateurs, druggists, doctors, lawyers, undertakers, servants, socialites, priests, preachers, rabbis. In the same direction sped Governor Herbert Lehman, Mrs. Lehman, George Foster Peabody, many another dignitary...
...from year to year, place definite limits on the size and power of competing craft. Put up in 1904, the Gold Cup cost $730, is gold plate on silver. Experts estimate that motorboat enthusiasts have spent $40,000,000 trying to win it. Last week, on Lake George, N. Y., five long-nosed hydroplanes zoomed over the dark green water getting ready for the start. On the eve of the race, two had broken down and withdrawn. Of the three remaining, the favorite was George Reis's El Lagarto, winner in 1933 and 1934 and one of the most...
...competition in 1900 by onetime Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis. Last week, Dwight Davis Jr., the donor's son, was beaten 6-3, 4-6, 4-6 by an unseeded player named Frederic Gaskell in the quarter finals of the Suffolk County, N. Y., singles championship...
...Crugers, N. Y., in the black night, Burnett A. Ward, 40, railroadman, his wife and son were waked by a hammering at the door. Ward leaned out a window and saw a naked man. "What do you want?" Ward shouted. "I want food. I want a drink. I want cigarets," the madman shouted. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself," said Ward, "knocking at people's houses with no clothes on. Go and put on your clothes." "They're in the woods," the man screamed...
Left. To the waitresses of Philadelphia's Y. W. C. A. cafeteria: the bulk of the $10,000 estate of Cyrus J. Hull, 83-year-old Philadelphia eccentric who died month ago; as a reward for "cheerful service and kind attention...