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Others are Edward P. Edmunds of Manila, Phillipine Islands and Matthews Hall; Wingate Green, Jr. of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Weld Hall; Stacey B. Hulse of Belmont and Wigglesworth Hall; David D. Henry of Wellesley Hills and Stoughton Hall; Sears R. Hayne of Wilmette, Illinois and Matthews Hall; Spencer A. Klaw of Carmel, New York and Holworthy Hall...
...Admiral, a three-year-old last year, had won every race he started, including the so-called triple crown (Kentucky Derby. Preakness, Belmont Stakes), and wound up the year with earnings of $166,500 in spite of being hors de combat for five months because of a sore foot. His owner, Samuel D. Riddle, and many another thought War Admiral was the greatest horse in the world...
...Stagehand blossomed into a star, won three races in a row. Racing fans all knew that the incomparable Earl Sande, most famed jockey of modern times, was Maxwell Howard's trainer. Because Earl Sande in his riding days had won 967 races (including three Kentucky Derbies and five Belmont Stakes), earned $3,000,000 for his employers, and had the reputation of being able to do more with a horse than anyone else in the world, hunch money last week was going down fast on Sande-trained Stagehand. But seasoned railbirds figured that the Sande protege, a slow starter...
...Sande-trained Sceneshifter, older brother of Stagehand and a likely choice for this week's Santa Anita Handicap, came close to victory when he placed second to War Admiral in the Belmont Stakes last year...
Dean of the college from 1921-27, Greenough was also the first Master of Dunster House. He died suddenly at his home in Belmont early Sunday morning...