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...most distinguished pillars of the Democratic Party in Rhode Island is Mr. Peter Goelet Gerry. He is a graduate of Harvard, a member of the bar, the husband of the onetime Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt. But for the fact that 1928 was a very Republican year Mr. Gerry would probably still be a member...
...midst of the 15-acre Vanderbilt plot adjoining the Moravian Cemetery at New Dorp, Staten Island, there arose almost 70 years ago a great mausoleum (see cut) in which lie 54 coffins including those of the old Commodore; his son William Henry; his grandsons Cornelius, George Washington, William Kissam; his great-grandson Reginald and his great-great-grandson William K. Jr. Last week Mrs. Vanderbilt was put away with those who, in the words read by Dr. Brooks from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, "are henceforth blessed . . . for they rest from their labors...
Same day at Havre de Grace, in the Chesapeake Stakes ($7,500 added), speedy Cavalcade clipped 2/5 sec. off the track record, won handily from Mrs. Frank J. Heller's Agrarian and Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Discovery...
Singing Wood, a bay colt, is the best of Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's three candidates. Mrs. Whitney's sporting mother-in-law, Mrs. Payne Whitney, tops the mass entry list with five nominees; her husband's cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney has four, but no other Whitney horse compares with Singing Wood. Last year he won the Futurity, was top money 2-year-old with $88,050 winnings...
...Thomas, a poor man's horse, belongs to Alexander Gordon of Louisville, onetime trainer for Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt and Cartoonist Bud Fisher. Sir Thomas finished his two-year-old season a "maiden," never having won a race. But had he not jumped a path on the course at the Futurity, observers say he would have beaten Singing Wood. Form-players can justify their fancy for Sir Thomas by recalling that Sir Barton in 1919 and Broker's Tip last year entered the Derby as ''maidens...