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...Santa Anita race track, 30 minutes from Hollywood, over $100,000 a day goes into the till of its owners, the Los Angeles Turf Club. The Los Angeles Turf Club directors are rich and powerful. Since the day the track came into being three years ago (the year after betting at race tracks was legalized in California), Santa Anita has enjoyed a profitable monopoly in Los Angeles County. Its directors frowned on interlopers. And so, it seemed, did the California Horse Racing Board...
...bent on breaking this one-track monopoly was the Hollywood Turf Club, a syndicate originally formed in 1935 but more recently reorganized and capitalized at $2,250,000. Headed by politically powerful Jack Warner, sporty production chief of the $177,000,000 Warner Bros. Corporation, and a board of directors of impeccable backgrounds, the reorganized Hollywood Turf Club convinced the Racing Board of its financial and moral soundness, got permission to build a race track in Los Angeles County. But the Board shyly held up its allocation of racing dates. At long last, last week, the Racing Board granted...
...Although Seabiscuit was leading money winner of 1937 with $168,580, turfmen split on choosing the Horse of the Year. The magazine Horse & Horseman gave the honor to Seabiscuit on the recommendation of 25 leading turfmen. The Turf and Sport Digest polled 256 U. S. sportswriters, decided the honor should go to War Admiral, undefeated in eight starts...
Harvard won. On Saturday, November 20, 1937, Yale sent one of the greatest teams in its history on to the turf of Soldiers Field. That team was soundly and squarely beaten. It was beaten by eleven men and their replacements who on that day were eleven All-Americans. They were All-American football players incidentally. Primarily they are Harvard men and students, for the high esteem in which members of the team are held off the field gives proof of their "all-roundness," while as a group they boast as notable an academic record as any comparable body in College...
...team won the U. S. Open Championship from Jock Whitney's Greentree team (TIME, Oct. 4), and Sonny Whitney's two entries finished fifth and seventh in the Futurity. After that it was certain that the light-blue jacket and brown cap would be seen on the turf no more...