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...brusque manners have been interpreted as rudeness and even earned him requests not to ride out with other gentlemen and their ladies. But his friends like him as warmly as his critics flay him and in Tennessee he has found a hunting paradise-natural panel fences, no wire, springy turf-which he has organized efficiently with himself as Master of Fox Hounds. Last spring the Grasslands group got going with an inaugural steeplechase for a cup put up by the Duke of Beaufort. Last week they held their great promised event-a steeplechase modeled on the English Grand National...
...took care of them were wondering what their fate was to be. For their master was dead (TIME, Nov. 3) and it seemed possible that the Whitney colors, Eton blue and brown, made notable more than 50 years ago by grandfather William Collins Whitney, might disappear from the turf. Everything depended on what Mr. Whitney's son and heir, Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney would do. Two days after his father's death he had suggested that he might keep the stable going. Last week came his formal announcement-an application to the Jockey Club for permission to race...
...toast before every game.... "Sandy" Weinner, one of Bill Tilden's tennis proteges and regarded as a coming youngster several years ago is on the Yale backfield squad.... During the halves of all football games played at the Yankee Stadium uniformed men come out and tread down the turf that was dug up during play.... A certain New York football expert has compiled statistics which reveal the fact that 78 times out of 100 the team which scores the first touchdown eventually wins the game.... Coach Wray has cut down the weight of the football uniforms of the members...
...Harry Payne Whitney had dropped four clubs (St. Nicholas, Piping Rock, Jockey, Creek) since last year, joined two (Brook & Yale), leaving Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt III undisputed No. 1 New York clubman with 16 memberships- Racquet & Tennis, Union, N. Y. Yacht, Union League, Century, Tuxedo, Brook, Metropolitan, Piping Rock, Turf & Field. Engineers, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht. Automobile Club of America, Yale, Sleepy Hollow, Knickerbocker...
Twelve hundred cadets will arrive in Boston tomorrow morning and will parade on the Boston Common, march out to Cambridge, do their formations on the Stadium turf, and march out again after the game in regular formation, it was announced yesterday...