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...nine days' talk of London is Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, American sportsman. Sanford's 13-year-old gelding, Sergeant Murphy (by General Symons, out of Rose Craft, English bred) won the Grand National, the steeplechase classic of the world, over the Aintree Course, near Liverpool, the most hazardous four miles known to the racing turf. It was the first time (and this was the 83rd Grand National) that an American horse has won. Out of 28 starters only seven horses finished. Sergeant Murphy went to the pole at odds of 100 to 6 against and finished three lengths beyond the field...
Through the morning the sun shone brightly, but just before the horses went to the barrier fog fell, and the mists blew fitfully across the course throughout the running. Sergeant Murphy, handled by Captain G. H. Bennett, an amateur rider, got away well and fencing boldly struggled for the lead with Shaun Spadah, Sir Malcolm McAlpine's winner of the race in 1921. Over half the field fell in the first round, and the American-owned gelding started for home in the van of the twelve remaining jumpers. Two fences from the finish Sergeant Murphy came up with a rush...
Dean K. B. Murdock '16, Sergeant-at-Arms...
...made a close study of the unemployment problem. In 1914 he served a year on Blackwells Island for leading a mob of unemployed into a New York church. During the war he first worked in a shipyard and later served in the army, where he gained the rank of sergeant. After the war he entered Columbia University, from which he graduated recently with highest honors. He is the author of a book called "The Labor Movement...
...Colonel Hanford MacNider '11, the present commander of the American Legion. The French Medaille Militarie, awarded only for gallant conduct on the field of action, went to 13 men from the University: Private John W. Ames Jr. '18, Lieutenant William V. Booth Jr. 13, Lieutenant Van Duzer Burton '19, Sergeant Victor E. Chapman '13, Private Andre Cheronnet-Champollion '02, Major Elliot C. Cowdin 2d '09, Captain James N. Hall G. 11, Private Robert Hatch L. '12, Chaplain Albert Leo S. T. B. '05, Sergeant Robert E. Pellissier '04; Lieutenant Norman Prince '08, Flight Commander David E. Putnam '20, and Sergeant...