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...Jockey. Steve Donoghue was the jockey. This is his fifth Derby victory?a feat only twice before equaled: a century ago by a jockey named Robinson, and between 1877 and 1886 by a jockey named Archer. But Donoghue goes one better. He won for the first time in the history of the race (which has been run regularly, even during the war, from 1780 to the present day) his golden spurs, a much coveted prize offered by the Jockey Club of England to the jockey who wins the Derby three times in succession. Donoghue won the 1921 race...
Williams, Philly centerfielder, was accountable for three, a feat which tied the league record held jointly by Kenneth Williams of the Browns and Walter Henline of the Phillies. Forty hits were made in the game and 28 players participated. Score: Philadelphia 20, St. Louis...
...Bautz, however, is nearly thirty centuries behind the times. In 1037 B. C. an indefatigable adventurer named Ulysses visited the sulphurous regions, interviewed the prominent people and returned with an exceedingly graphic report. Somewhat later, an equally daring gentleman, Aeveas, accomplished the same feat, and confirmed the account of his predecessor in every respect. Collaboration seems most improbable, since these men had been conspicuous as enemies in the "Great...
...generations to preserve the outward respectability of its home, only to have it flooded by the onrush of the water which destroyed towns and valleys and hills at the birth of the great Croton water system above New York City. It is the romance of this great engineering feat that led Mr. Hughes to make it the focal point of his novel. Flooded towns, broken walls, rushing waters! What a movie...
Before advertisers can adopt this innovation, however, they must give pause for one consideration. What about city traffic. The advertisers would have to arrange some means for the safe landing of their sailing agents, because this very first exponent of the new art has, for his feat, been summoned to court on the charge of disorderly conduct...