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...scrimmage with Coach French's squad will be held in the Stadium and will mark the first play on the Stadium turf this year. Until now all the University practice sessions have been held in the enclosed field to the west of the oval...
...Latonia championship (begins Sept. 27), Gallant Fox may never run again. He will be retired to William Woodward's stud at Belair, Md. A promising three-year-old in April, he has become the greatest money-winner in the history of the U. S. turf. Beside the Jockey Club's Cup he won the Wood Memorial, the Preakness, the Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes, Dwyer Stakes, Arlington Classic, Saratoga Cup, Lawrence Realization. His winnings total...
Mysterious this ferment surely is. A spring is not securely basined in marble, it may bubble through the neighboring turf; and spiritual ferment is often generated by studies quite outside college courses. A man in the Harvard class of 1908, who later distinguished himself, once told me that on a November day, when the Yale game was being played in New Heaven, he sat in a leather armchair beside a fire of logs in the library of the Union, from after breakfast until dusk, reading Tolstoy's "War and Peace." Autumn loured in cloudy skies and mourned in the gusty...
...when a squat silver mug with little horses and men springing out of its base stands gleaming on a table in front of the bright blue West Stand at Meadow Brook, gleaming as the emblem of victory for the International teams galloping up and down the broad stretch of turf, and as the central sparkle in one of the country's finest sporting panoramas. Custom dictates that the cup shall be at the field after one team has won one game. The score of the first game (10 to 5 for the U. S.) had made the second game seem...
...extraordinary one made up of four brothers Ashton from Australia-Philip, Geoffrey, James, Robert-all about the same size, closely resembling each other, ranked at 26 goals, were on hand to see and lend color to the summer's events. At Sands Point, and on the spacious turf overlooked by the stone terrace and colonial portico of Piping Rock Club (see map, p. 25), test matches between candidates for the U. S. team went on with much earnestness. People watching from cars parked along the sideboards were increasingly numerous and interested. The matches with England, to be played...