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...want it to be what the World Series is to baseball, what the Rose Bowl is to football." Thus chirped 25-year-old Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt in the fall of 1937, when he invited four of the best race horses of that year to compete in an entry-free, post-season race at Pimlico...
Seasoned turfmen smiled tolerantly. They knew Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was rich (rumor put his fortune at $20,000,000), was passionately fond of thoroughbreds, and had just bought a sizable interest in the old down-at-heels Pimlico race track outside Baltimore. But the prize he offered for his dream race was only $10,000, mere timothy to big U. S. stables.* Most racing experts did not give the Pimlico Special an outside chance to attain the prestige of a World Series or a Rose Bowl...
Singing "Challedon, my Challedon" (tune of Maryland, My Maryland) 25,000 hoarse-voiced fans saluted the Horse of the Year, a worthy successor to Seabiscuit and War Admiral. It looked as if young Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt had chirped a mouthful...
...Baton Rouge, La., undefeated, untied, unscored-on Tennessee, still the No. 1 popular choice to represent the East in the Rose Bowl, smashed a slam-bang Louisiana State team that had previously trounced Holy Cross, Rice, Loyola and Vanderbilt. Tennessee...
...touch football league has a week to run before the standings are complete, but it looks now as though the undefeated Lowell eleven will come through ahead. The Yale winner will probably be Vanderbilt, and the two teams will meet here on Saturday, November...