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...came out of the gate at Churchill Downs and moved slowly up the midway in the rain. Then they saw Earle Sande on Gallant Fox, seventh in line, and a few people shouted; Sande tipped his cap. Tannery, the horse that all the Southern sports were betting on, was 13th, and the band played "My Old Kentucky Home." Through the grey tissue of the rain it was hard to see what was happening at the post, but the patent stall-gate the starters were using speeded things up. In a minute the line of horses that had been relaxed...
...reply to your inquiry ("Do all Marines agree?"), I have the distinction of being not only an original TIME subscriber but also of having served in Co. I, 13th Reg. U. S. M. C.-buck private rear rank, 1st platoon-I believe a man that low in the ranks should have received some of the knocks, if any, during World...
...Clarence De Mar, 43: the annual Boston 26 mi. 385 yd. marathon; entered for the 13th time; his seventh victory; by 400 yards...
After studying in Germany, he returned in 1879 to join the Yale faculty as a tutor. Twenty years later he became Yale's 13th President, stipulating that he must be retired when 65. Under his regime the institution took an unprecedented scholastic polish. Its endowment was doubled. To wife he took, in 1891, Helen Harrison Morris of New Haven, whose father had been a Connecticut governor. Both his sons, Hamilton and Morris, were raised good Yalemen. Fulfilling his inaugural request, he was made President Emeritus...
...being champion for only 60 days, since within that time he must fight Maxie Rosenbloom, rated as the best light heavyweight of all. For eight rounds stubby Scozza, a swinger, plunged after dancing Slattery, received a hearty cuffing. In the next four rounds Slattery got tired. In the 13th, a wild spray of punches suddenly erupted from Scozza. He dazed Slattery, knocked him against the ropes, was about to knock him out when the bell rang. Glassy-eyed but courageous, with his last energy forcing his wobbling legs to dance once more, Slattery jabbed and countered in the 15th...