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...University golf team will begin informal fall practice at the Belmont Country Club sometime next week, it was announced last night by J. M. Cole '32, manager of the team. Coach Boat Ncoll will meet candidates to look over prospects for the coming season and to get a line on the players sent up from last year's Freshman team...
Last spring was the first time that the golf team had a coach. At that time, Nicoll, the professional at Belmont, was engaged to coach the players. Since this is also the first time fall practice has been held, it will be in the nature of an experiment and very informal. About 10 or fifteen candidate are expected to report, and practice will be hold twice a week at Belmont. There will be no competition this fall...
...last day of the Belmont, N. Y., autumn racing season: Mrs. John Hay Whitney's Green Cheese, the $28,250 Grand National Steeplechase; Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's unbeaten two-year-old filly Top Flight, the $94,780 Futurity Stakes; Mrs. Payne Whitney's champion three-year-old Twenty Grand, the $10,400 Jockey Club Gold Cup, at odds...
Twenty-five fine horses were "guests" at a testimonial dinner to rich Turfman Joseph E. Widener, president of the Westchester Racing Association, in Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore. The ballroom on the 19th floor of the hotel was made to look like Belmont Park. L. I., famed racecourse of which Mr. Widener is principal owner. Around the walls ran a pictured panorama of the course. In the foreground, near the tables occupied by some 300 guests in evening dress, was an actual reproduction of a corner of the park, complete to turf, a stretch of straightaway, white-painted railing...
...grandson of Edward Judson Ovington, one of the founders of Ovington's, famed gift shop on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. He took the degree of electrical engineer at M. I. T. in 1904, became interested in aviation in 1910 while reporting the First International Aviation Meet at Belmont Park, L. I. for the New York Times. Two months later he sailed for Europe to be taught to fly by Louis Blériot, first man to fly the English Channel.* In another three months he took his "brevet," or pilot's license from...