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...Sande, who has been called, with some justice, the greatest of living jockeys, rode in front of the stands at the opening of the Jamaica Track. Metropolitan racegoers, who beheld him then for the first time since the August day when he crumpled, limp as a leveret, from his mount at Saratoga, rose shouting to welcome him. Amid wilder shouting, he rode J. S. Ward's Worthmore, pulled him over the line to win by the width of a lead pencil from H. P. Whitney's Noah in the famed Paumonok Handicap...
Died. Charles F. Kent, 58, professor of Semitic Languages and Biblical Literature at Yale University; in Mount Carmel, Conn., after a long illness. He was the editor of a "Shorter Bible" which, critics averred, omitted all favorable references to liquor, emphasized all attacks upon it; and of many other religious works...
...order that a ten-story hotel may not arise in the midst of the Mount Auburn Street club and dormitory district, Mr. C. C. Stillman '98 has bought the property on the corner of Holyoke and Mount Auburn Streets where the proposed Roosevelt Hotel was planned...
...German Alpine Association announced that it would send, on July 2, a German expedition headed by Captain von Peiser to ascend Mount Everest in the Himalayas...
...England: When an airplane is forced to too great an angle to the wind, it loses speed and lateral control, stalls. A spin, an accident, is likely to result. Officials of the British Air Ministry watched a pilot mount in an Avro biplane fitted with Handley Page slots. He twisted into the worst wind-angle, came almost to a standstill. But here the ailerons (auxiliary wingtips) interconnected with the slots (which provided an auxiliary passage for the air at the front portion of the wing) maintained control until the pilot resumed a normal progress...