Word: cavanaghs
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...bookmakers, many of whom had arrived the night before on the "Cavanagh Special" (named for famed Ringmaster John G. Cavanagh), made Postage Due the favorite. The horse Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's trainer, Tom Healey, predicts will be better than Equipoise, a big chestnut colt named Red Rain, they dismissed contemptuously at 6-to-1. After the Mash the yapping of bookmakers that kept Saratoga's sparrows awake was mostly about Red Rain. Left at the post and running a miserable last, eight lengths behind the field at the half-mile post, he had suddenly come to life running...
...cattle-town belle who inherits a fortune in Buenos Aires, she makes herself a social success in Southampton, L. I. by giving a ball at which she sings a duet from Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah, climaxes her career by marrying a British earl (Paul Cavanagh...
...time since 1907. That year Lillian Russell and "Diamond Jim" Brady went to the track every day. That year, also, Herbert Bayard Swope, now chairman of the New York State Racing Commission, was best man at Arnold Rothstein's wedding. To Saratoga last week went old John G. Cavanagh, called back to the betting ring last spring to head New York State bookmakers, settle their disputes as he had done 27 years ago. Of New York bookmakers, who have lost close to $2,000,000 because it has been a good year for favorites, only...
...bookmakers in the crowd made their way openly in jostling hordes to a "betting shed" which had been empty since 1908. There, holding up their slates, stood the besieged "layers." Called back to the betting ring to settle disputes between layers and players was grizzled John G. Cavanagh who had the same job 27 years ago. A onetime program salesman at New York tracks, then a vendor of bookmakers' sheets, he organized the Metropolitan Turf Association (bookmakers union) before 1900. During the interim of oral betting, '"Ringmaster" Cavanagh functioned as unofficial arbiter for a group of New York...
Herant J. Adzigian of Stoneham, Richard E. Alger of Middleboro, Frank A. Bautze of Jamaica Plain, Lawrence W. Boal of Waltham, Robert L. Bentley, 2nd of Arlington, Stephen A. Bixby of Boxford, Stanley J. Bogunieki of Westfield, Mansfield Branigan of Groton, Charles N. Breed, Jr. of Swampscott, Thomas J. Cavanagh, Jr. of Cambridge, Manley B. Cohen of Cambridge, Joseph S. Cotton of Turner's Falls, David C. Crawford of Watertown, John V. Curran of Cambridge, John D. Dorr of Bridgewater, Richard G. Dorr of Lancaster, Douglas P. Dryer of Waban, John F. Ducey, Jr. of Boston, Arthur F. Duffey...