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...league of his own. The National and American leagues were too much for him, however, and his costly Federal League died in its 2nd year (1915). With racehorses he did better. He bought the services of famed Trainer Sam Hildreth and out of his Rancocas Stables, in 1923, came Zev, world's champion. He bought a yacht, a private car, a Fifth Avenue mansion, an estate at Great Neck...
...since 1924 one of the government's special prosecutors, was there, too, to cross-examine the witness. One of the first things Mr. Fall told was that the late J. W. Zevely, Sinclair's personal attorney and the man for whom he named his famed racehorse "Zev", conducted all the early negotiations for the Teapot lease. Then Sinclair went with Zevely to Fall's office (according to Fall) and protested he would lose money the way the lease was drawn. In the end he signed it "reluctantly...
...Wiedemann Brewing Co., did not go to jail with him, but paid the U. S. a $10,000 fine. His horse, In Memoriam, remained on his stud farm at Newport, Ky., munching bluegrass. As a three-year-old, In Memoriam outran Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's swift Zev at the $50,000 Latonia stakes on Nov. 3, 1923. Two weeks later, Zev defeated In Memoriam by a nostril in the most thrilling match race of all time. Today, Zev is eating grass on Mr. Sinclair's farm in New Jersey...
...Independence, Kan., who one day shot himself in the foot while out hunting and from the accident insurance money built up an oil fortune big enough for him to help back the late Federal Baseball League (1915), to play with his Rancocas stables (including World's Champion Horse Zev) and to be offered (so the story goes)' the throne of Albania?fleshy but firm, quiet but quick-eyed, Harry P. Sinclair sat erect and whispered incessantly with his counsel...
Died. Colonel James William Zevely, 65, famed attorney, at his home in East Hampton, L. I., of pernicious anemia. Despite his great abilities as a lawyer, he was perhaps best known to the U. S. public as "the man after whom Harry F. Sinclair named the famous racehorse Zev...