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Five years ago, the famed Man o' War, then a 3-year-old, won the Withers Stakes at Belmont Park. Last week, American Flag, a son of his by Lady Comfy, came from far back to take the 50th running of this race from a small field...
...Charlottesville, Va., A.B. Washington and Lee University 1916, A.M. University of Virginia 1921, S.M. in Education ibid, 1924, Superintendent of Albemarle County Public Schools, Charlottesville, Va; Elene Michell S.B., Ed.M., Los Angeles, Cal., S.B. Columbia University 1907, Ed.M. Harvard University February, 1925, Head of Social Science Department, Belmont High School, Los Angeles...
...animated group that had witnessed the bartering of Man O' War's parents and friends left the meadow at twilight and motored back to Louisville. The auctioneer, they agreed, had been lucky. He never would have got such prices for Belmont's nags if it had not been the afternoon before Derby Day when everyone was feverish and even the yellow dogs of Kentucky, feeling the spring of the year, carried their tails...
...moment being sold at auction in a meadow three miles away. No one was so heartless as to describe that scene to him: the 3,000-odd onlookers, bidders, the group of old stallions, sway-backed mares, shaggy, spindling colts-remnants of the famed stable of the late August Belmont, being sold by a red-faced auctioneer. No one told him of the prices: how his father, Fair Play, went to Joseph E. Widener for $100,000; his mother, Mahubah, brought a miserable $8,000; his friends Dona Rocca and Blue Grass $40,000 and $27,000 respectively...
...officers elected are: President, Donald Coats Gates '26 of New York City; Vice-President. Richard Thomas Flood '27 of Brookline: Secretary-Treasurer. George Emerson Smith '26 of Worcester: Leader of the Banjo Club, George Beere Moynahan '23 of Mattapan: Leader of the Mandolin Club, Gordon Atherton Norton of Belmont: Leader of the Vocal Club. William Rowell Chase '26 of Brookline: Librarian, John Hill Monroe '27 of Brookline: Manager, Reginald Franklin Conroy Vance '26 of Fredericks burg, Va: and Assistant Manager, William Brewster Jr. '27 of Lewisburg...