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Married. Prince Monolulu of Africa, turf tipster; and a Miss Nellie Amelia Adkind, white woman; in London. Prince Monolulu wore his royal regalia, including hat embellished with three two-foot ostrich plumes, embroidered sash, short jacket on which were traced five symbolic horseshoes...
Near Chicago John J. ("Jack") Lynch, part owner of a turf news service, was left on a road in his own automobile and promptly drove to his home at Lake Geneva, Wis. There he denied that an associate had paid $50,000 for his release. Unlike Kidnappee Rosenthal. Kidnappee Lynch said he would do all he could to help capture and convict the seven men who had held up his car with shotguns, tied him up and held him for six days. During those six days friends of Mr. Lynch had appealed to no less a person than Chief Gangster...
Died-Thomas W. ("Chicago'') O'Brien, 68, racetrack plunger; of cancer; at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. One of the few turf gamblers to win consistently, his biggest bet was $100,000 that Man o' War would outrun Sir Barton (which he did) in a match race in 1920 at odds of i to 20. Once a bricklayer, and with no other business than betting, he died a millionaire...
...last day of Chicago's principal summer race meeting. He finished fourth. First by three lengths was six-year-old Sun Beau. The winner's prize, $27,300, added to his previous winnings, made him the greatest money horse in the history of the U. S. turf, with $330,044 compared to the $328,165* which Gallant Fox had won when he was retired last autumn. A U. S. horse who has won more than Sun Beau: Goldsmith Maid, trotting mare bred by J. B. Decker at Deckerstown, N. J., in 1857, who won her first race when...
Elinor Whitney and Dorothy, buxom, frizzy-haired daughters of Manhattan Pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick, were appointed "grass cops" at Smith College. Armed with whistles, they will blow a smart blast whenever they see trespassers treading tender turf...