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...Yangtze trouble is the Iping. Scuddling down the river's rapids, she bumped herself on a rock, limped on, ran a gauntlet of Communist fire, escaped toward Ichang. Next day "friendly" Government artillery suddenly surprised the Iping with shrapnel, desperately wounded two Chinese passengers, put a slug in the leg of Leo Bradley, able seaman U. S. N. Promptly other U. S. Naval guards on the Iping got her guns into action, silenced the Chinese battery with an Imperialist cannonade...
After this year's Grand National, the horses Drin and Swift Rowland had to be destroyed (TIME, April 6). In 1930, Derby Day III fell and died. In 1929 one horse, Stort, broke his leg. There were no accidents in 1928 and 1927; in 1926 one horse, Lone Hand, fell and died...
Record, set back a yard for a false start on the first leg of the mile went from fourth place to second, but was passed by a Penn runner near the end. The Crimson held third place until the last leg, when Dodge nipped the Buckeye anchor man to finish second with the remarkable time of 48 4-5 seconds for his quarter. Penn's quartet equalled the 1915 mark...
...dentist appointment: a horsey Kentuckian on his way to a race track; an unemployed plumber; a railway switchman; the wife of a packing company official come to town to do some shopping. And, about to take a train to Washington Park race course was Alfred ("Jake") Lingle. "leg man" (newsgatherer but not writer) for the Chicago Tribune, a newspaper man with racketeering side interests. Just after he bought a newspaper and entered the tunnel, some one in the human current moved up behind him, stuck a sawed-off revolver behind his head and pulled the trigger. As the shot barked...
...they went "into the country" for the second time, Grakle began to move up. At Becher's Brook again, Solanum fell, then Easter Hero. Great Span went down at the Canal fence. At Valentine's Brook Drin fell with a broken leg, was later shot. Coming into the "race course," the long gentle curve that ends the 47-mile Grand National steeplechase, Gregalach, Grakle and Ballasport were in the lead together. R. Lyall up on Grakle cleared the last fence first, swung in to the rail...