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Died. Edward Phocion Howard. 56. founder & publisher of the New York Press (turf weekly); of heart disease; at Saratoga, N. Y. Famed for his loud clothes, handsome manners, easy generosity and lugubrious wit. Publisher Howard had been a Senate page, a New York World reporter, a financial editor, an oilman. In 1916 he bought a racing stable, made a habit of attending every important U. S. race meeting, traveling in style whether flat or flush. In 1924 he started the New York Press in which, among racing tips, form charts, track gossip and ad- vertisements for ''advisory bureaus...
...opponent laid her a dead stymie. A 75-yd. spade shot that stopped three inches from the cup at the 12th put Miss Van Wie three up. On the 15th, both balls were on the green in two, but Helen Hicks's had bitten into the soft turf and picked up a patch of mud. She putted three times to Virginia Van Wie's two and shook hands, grinning, with the champion...
...rain, had delayed the tournament a full week. When sturdy Helen Jacobs, whose muscles were as solid as her opponent's convictions, finally took the court against Dorothy Round, who had beaten her twice in England and even won a set from Helen Wills, the slow moist turf made a perfect surface for the slow, sly Jacobs chops. Her victory, 6-4, 5-7, 5-2, set the stage for a final that promised to be boringly familiar. Even the fact that Helen Wills Moody had been troubled all week by a sore back led no one to suppose...
...match between strong servers with comparatively weak backhands, it followed the pattern that everyone expected until the very last game. Vines, his serves scarring the turf, seldom lost more than a point or two in his service games; sometimes he won without using more than four balls. Even when after winning the first he dropped the second and third sets, he seemed clearly in control of the match, waiting for Crawford to tire. When he came out for the fourth with a new racket and began to hit his flat drives even harder than before, it looked more than ever...
...racing inspires confidence because there are no jockeys. It has never enjoyed a prestige, in owners and sponsors, comparable to the prestige of the turf...