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Three days of fair Kentucky weather had made the track at Churchill Downs hard and dusty, a strip of yellow cardboard between the high white stands and the infield where, from an immense Maypole, hundreds of small flags slanted to the green turf. Mutuel clerks in their shirt-sleeves leaned in the windows along the brick terrace behind the clubhouse. Equipoise, the winter-book favorite owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, but no longer favored since his beatings in the Chesapeake Stakes and the Preakness, had been scratched because of a blind quarter (hidden bruise) discovered in his right fore...
...second year in succession the solid gold shield of the Holland Bulb Exporters Association went to Marshall Field for a bulb garden arranged by his able superintendent, George H. Gillies. Flaming tulips lined a green turf path to a stone bench by a mellow brick wall shaded by flowering lilac, rhododendrons, laurel, dogwood...
...Greenberg did not reply. Instead she slumped to the turf, knocked unconscious...
Died. William James Arkell, 74, onetime owner of Judge and Leslie's Weekly, which he sold in 1905, founder of George Washington Coffee Co., turf man, brother of President Bartlett Arkell of Beech-Nut Packing Co.; in Los Angeles. Legend is that he once staked Leslie's Weekly against $150,000 on one of his horses...
Soon after that, the exciting, smell-laden strip of turf and shrubbery in the middle of the avenue began to be narrowed. And policemen grew stricter about letting dogs go inside the iron fences. At the same time the sidewalks were narrowed too. Since telephone poles long ago disappeared from Park Avenue and the slim trees are boarded up, a dog's life was no fun at all during the months when hydrants and lamp posts were made inaccessible by excavations...