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...Close behind Workman came 'Captain Briggs's MacMoffat, with Jockey Alder in primrose silks. As they pressed on, Kilstar blundered four jumps from home, and from then on it was nip and tuck between the green and the primrose. Over the last fence soared Workman, half a stride ahead of MacMoffat, and galloped into the stretch...
...advantage of my system lies in that when I am off my game, I can lay back at the base line and just return the shots. When a player like Vines or Budge loses his stride for a day or so, there is nothing...
...realize fully how often a gesture of practical concession by the Government will time and again be seized upon by a minority element as the sign that the Government is on the run. We will have to expect some such bad manners, but we will take them in our stride because that is part of the job of being a public servant...
Showing his usual god brand of wrestling, Bill Daughaday won from his man, Lowry Stephenson with another decision. Ted Schoenberg, t 136, lost his stride once more as he broke his winning streak to lose to Norman Bond on a decision, and Al Richter lost on a decision...
...stand, announce: "I herewith submit my resignation as a judge of the Superior Court. . . ." By waiting until then, he made sure that he would choose his successor on the bench. Then from his glassed enclosure on Third Street, he watched Jay Cooke, Philadelphia's G. O. P. chairman, stride majestically along in the inaugural parade, saw pass the proud banner from Philadelphia's 26th Ward: "Home Ward of Late U. S. Senator WILLIAM S. VARE Honoring His True Friend GOV. ARTHUR H. JAMES...