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...race this spring. Odds on Broker's Tip were 9 to i. The favorite was William R. Coe's Ladysman. son of Pompey who was beaten by Col. Bradley's Bubbling Over in the Derby of 1926. Best of the western entrants, most people thought, were Charley O, who won the Florida Derby, and a "10^ store horse" named Head Play. An oldtime jockey, Willie Crump, bought Head Play at a yearling sale for $500, gave him to his wife. Last week, when Head Play had beaten most of the other Derby eligibles in a preliminary race...
...very little difference. Fisher got his horse away fast, crossed over to the inside and took the lead going round the first turn. At the half mile, he broke away from the field to a lead of more than a length. Ladysman tried to keep up but could not. Charley O held on going to the second turn but could not overtake the leader. It was then that the crowd of 40,000 saw the shaping of the most exciting Kentucky Derby finish that anyone could remember. A dark brown horse with a jockey in white silk with green hoops...
When Ben Chapman, the New York Yankees' leftfielder, slid into second base, he cut the foot of Charley Myer, the Washington Senators' second baseman, with his spikes. Myer fell, picked himself up and then before Chapman could get up, kicked his leg. This was the incident which last week started the liveliest baseball fight in years. Players from both teams rushed out on the field. Manager Joe Cronin of Washington caught Chapman after he had taken a few punches at Myer. Umpires George Moriarty and Harry Geisel managed to restrain other players before the fight became general. They...
Stirling Adams, c.f., who made two of the five hits off Ray White of the Lions, Saturday, will lead off, followed by Johnny Ware, r.f., and with Ham Thacher 3b, and Charley Nevin c., in the clean-up position. Frank Gleason 1b., will bat fifth followed by Jim McCaffrey l.f., who shared batting honors with Adams against Columbia, Phil Hines 2b., and Charles Sargent s.s. Coach Fred Mitchell has not yet made the choice between Harold Taylor and John McJennett to take the mound. Taylor, a lanky right hander pitched the two games against Brown last year in which...
...friends to poke a curious finger through him, and his enemies to come gingerly within his range. But Bethlehem's late lawyer once remarked, when he was drawing up its famous percentage contract with the government, that "The higher optimism is to hope for a little pessimism in Charley Schwab." So Mr. Schwab is once more sanguine. Perhaps he is feels that he might at least pretend has is having a feast when the shining Marxian angel draws her bloody finger across his wall...