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When Father Dawes's health began to fail in 1889, it was Rufus who took over his lumber business, saw the family through the next few years, Charley was away in Nebraska, Beman and Henry were too young. Wrote the father in 1890: "Rufus will pull the stroke oar over the coming year in our business. . . . He shows excellent judgment and great capacity...
...when Mr. Young was Agent General of Reparations. Sir Josiah Stamp has called him one of the U. S.'s greatest economists. Yet until he took the Chicago Fair's presidency in 1927 his chief fame was as the only man in the world who could handle Charley Dawes...
...never crosses his elder brother, never argues with him; simply lets him explode, then goes ahead to do what should be done. In the early days of the Fair he wanted to allot $10,000 a year for publicity. Cried Charley: "Damn it. just do something. Then the newspapers will publish it. The hell with spending that much money!" Rufus said nothing, allotted the $10,000 when the time came...
Broker's Tip's jockey was Don Meade of California. With spur and whip, he got his horse up to Charley 0 and passed him, went for a narrow opening between Head Play and the rail. For a few moments in the last furlong of the mile and a quarter distance the crowd saw the two of them locked together at close quarters, their jockeys' boots rubbing. As they reached the finish still jammed together at the rail, in the immense uproar of a crowd that wanted the Bradley horse to win, Broker...
...judges-aware that both jockeys had ridden roughly-turned their backs. Jockey Fisher sat down, buried his face in his hands. (Both he and Meade were later suspended.) On the score board, the word "official" appeared beside the results: 1st Broker's Tip. 2nd Head Play. 3rd Charley O. Ladysman was fourth, a length ahead of his stablemate Pomponius. Broker's Tip's time-2:06 4/5-was fair for a muddy track. In the last 20 years the Kentucky Derby, started in 1875 when Aristides won a purse of $2,850, has attracted better crowds than...