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...Jockey Linus ("Pony") McAtee guided the five-year-old gelding, Millwick, at Belmont Park, N. Y., in last week's Hempstead Handicap race. Millwick was not traveling very fast, but the spectators had a feeling that he would win. They had confidence in famed Jockey McAtee. He had ridden Harry Payne Whitney's Whiskery to victory the fortnight before in the Kentucky Derby...
Wagging his long silky locks, Mr. Stokowski discussed the audience. A balcony voice cried out, "Thank all of us!" but the silky locks wagged again. No, Mr. Stokowski was going to make distinctions. He looked up at the cheapest seats and said: "I have frequently ridden past the Academy two or three hours before a concert, and seen you standing there ... in cold, snow, sleet and rain. This shows you love music. . . . It has meant a lot to me. . . . Encouraged...
...just achieved a half-century of daily commuting over the L. I. R. R. between Huntington and Manhattan (73 miles round trip). Passenger Agent Woodward declared that, assuming Commuter Gaines to have taken the train between his home and office twice daily, except Sundays, since 1877, he had ridden the equivalent of 45 times around the world on the L. I. R. R. For this the railroad gave Commuter Gaines a free commutation ticket, good during the entire month...
...hope the CRIMSON Princetonian baseball game is as entertaining as the past CRIMSON-Lampoon ones have been. I'll never forget the number of times I've ridden an old bicycle to those annual diamond debates of the editors, through all kinds of weather and in every condition. In days gone by, a keg of beer used to liven up these ball games, and nowadays I miss it. The kegs used to sit right out in the middle of the field, and at the access of any player or players at all times...
...year-old gentleman with neatly trimmed snow-white beard and abundant snow-white hair, looking a bit like the late Viscount Bryce, pounded a desk and argued a water power case with vigorous conviction. He was Moses Hooper-for 70 years an able lawyer of Oshkosh, Wis. He had ridden in his automobile to Washington and intends to ride back to Oshkosh soon. Beech-Nut v. Beechnut. P. Lorillard Co. (Beechnut chewing tobacco) is not infringing the trademark of the Beech-Nut Packing Co. (BeechNut chewing ' gum, candies, ham, peanut butter, etc.) - decided the U. S. Supreme Court last...