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...year, while William Reynolds' bay filly Mary Reynolds was winning several preliminary races on the Grand Circuit, a publicity agent was high-pressuring newspaper interest in trotting racing. Last week 30,000 trotting fans crowded Goshen's green valley, its dusty Main Street. Eastern newspapers sent their crack sports writers to cover it. A trotting horse is trained not to break into a gallop. Pulling the little low-hung sulky with the driver perched nearly under his tail, he must not stretch out to pull himself along, must drive his legs rhythmically down and back. He is rarely...
Engineer William Gilbertson and Stoker John Jackson of Britain's crack train, "Royal Scot," now on exhibition at the World's Fair, said the train ride from Chicago to Manhattan was the longest they ever had. But they reminded newshawks that the "Royal Scot's" 300-mi. trip between London and Carlisle (80 mi. from Edinburgh) is the longest non-stop train-trip in the world, with the train averaging 60 m.p.h. Bragged Stoker Jackson: "But she can do a bit more than that. We've had her up to 100." "Better say 90," cautioned Engineer...
Their waterfowl data are based on 1,315 ducks killed or wounded by 106 hunters. Most losses came in pass shooting (from dry land near water), at which crack shots lost one-fourth of their hits, average shooters more than one-half. Fewest were lost in shooting over decoys: only 10.7% of 384 ducks. Most of the hunters shot in marshes, ordinary ones losing 41.5%, cracks 16%, for an average of 29.3% of all birds...
...Berber rebels were loose in the desert south of the Atlas Mountains. In a slow encircling movement he herded them northwest to the rim of the desert. His plodding columns closed in from north, east and southeast like beaters in a lion hunt. On the south and southwest, crack Legion regiments waited for the prey to enter the trap. Slowly, suspiciously, the Berbers, carrying their women and children, rode into the mountains up four confluent valleys a year ago last spring. The trap was sprung...
...drunk. She went to pacify him while the doorman left to get help. He returned with a big stranger, dressed in an opera bouffe green and yellow uniform, carrying a rifle in a yellow leather sling. He was a member of Spain's famed Guardia Civil, crack police corps on whose goodwill largely depends the survival of the Spanish Republic. The Guardia Civil trains its picked men to have an exaggerated sense of personal dignity, backs them up in it. The Spanish Government backs the Guardia Civil. But to the merrymakers...