Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Curtis, aged 8, stole bravely past the enemy's pickets at nightfall and travelled 60 miles to Topeka for help. Be that as it may, he lived in Topeka from then on, a small boy with such a passion for horses that he gained fame as a jockey on Midwestern tracks long before he finished high school...
Payne Whitney, famed financier & sportsman, died last May. Last week to his place as Steward of the Jockey Club (Manhattan) was elected Harry Payne Whitney, his brother, famed financier & sportsman...
Touts & breeders, millionaires & jockeys froze with fear last week when Santrock, racehorse, crashed into the rail in a race at Jamaica, L. I. Santrock, blind in one eye, is dangerous. Bumping the rail he could not see, the horse pulled a blinker over the other eye. In total darkness he smashed terrified through the rail, turned somersaults, crashed through both rails on the backstretch. His jockey was thrown, badly bruised. Experts felt it lucky Santrock did not kill both himself and jockey...
Died. Mrs. Earle Sande, wife of Earle Sande, famed jockey, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Sam Hildreth, famed trainer for the Rancocas Stables, was her uncle-by-marriage...
...than any other contestant. The ships had traveled 4,200 miles, from Detroit to New England, down the coast to Baltimore, cross country via Pittsburgh and Cleveland into Michigan again, back south to Dayton, Louisville, Dallas, Tulsa and thence up the continent to Detroit. Henry Ford, watching the pilots jockey their controls to keep even keels in the rain and gale at the finish, said: "This shows the reliability of the airplane, if anything does." Edsel Ford met with the Tour pilots at a hotel banquet and presented the Ford trophy to "Dean of Pilots" Eddie Stinson. Detroit cherished...