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...later became president). The same year he became the youngest member of The Jockey Club, the handful of oligarchs who govern U. S. horse racing. Last week Alfred Vanderbilt succeeded ailing 66-year-old Joseph E. Widener as head of New York's elegant $4,000,000 Belmont Park, founded in 1905 by Granduncle William K. Vanderbilt, William C. Whitney and August Belmont. At 27, Alfred Vanderbilt, president of two of the most important race tracks in the country, was fast getting into position as the No. 1 turfman...
...Pimlico he introduced the unprecedented policy of a stake race every day, removed the famed infield hillock that obstructed the spectators' view, and inaugurated the Pimlico Special to determine the Horse of the Year. Last week Turfman Vanderbilt's main problem was: how to make elegant Belmont popular with inelegant New York racing fans (potentially increased for 1940 because of the recent legalization of pari-mutuel betting at New York tracks...
Hermann G. Rudenberg '42, Belmont, Mass...
Elisha Atkins '42, Belmont, Mass...
...anything about who's going to row," said the softspoken sweep coach, "but I think this Freshman bunch have certainly learned something about rowing this fall. Not only the inexperienced fellows, but even those who have rowed before at placed like Exeter, St. Paul's, Browne and Nichols, Brooks, Belmont Hill, and other schools that have crews, have all learned a good deal out on the river this Fall...