Expulsions Cloud National Trotting Board Session
The Winter meeting of the Board of Review of the National Trotting Association at the Murray Hill Hotel produced one of its most sensational outcomes. George W. Spear and Edward Sanders were expelled for alleged doping tied to Lou Dillon, while Millard Sanders case was adjourned. Elmer E. Smathers was fully vindicated in the Memphis Gold Cup affair.
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Lou Dillon Neck Cut Suspected Before Memphis Race
Millard Sanders reveals an apparent neck wound on Lou Dillon prior to last year’s South tour after Major Delmar’s Memphis Cup win. He found a knife-cut on the mare’s neck in her stall at Glenville, suggesting foul play unknown to owner C. K. G. Billings.
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Lou Dillon’s trainer recounts mare’s work and drugging charges
Sanders testified that he cut the mare to ruin her work and linked the act to a knife at her neck while Smathers faced drugging accusations. Lou Dillon never matched her peak after the alleged mistreatment, and Cleveland horsemen ponder her odd behavior as she repeatedly broke down during workouts at Glenville.
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Stop Billiard Gambling Ends Exile Of Top Pros
A St. Louis academy where leading billiard pros played short Parisian style bets was shut down after Alfredo De Oro’s arrest. Stars like George Sutton, Jacob Schaefer, Joseph Capron and Hoppe were drawn to the Paris betting format with $25 daily for top players and $50 weekly for others. The crackdown ends the exodus from the East, restoring match play and paving the way for Hoppe’s anticipated challenge from Schaefer.
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AACA Banquet Draws Large Turnout with Noted Speakers
More than 500 Automobile Club of America members will attend the eighth annual banquet at Sherry's, the largest turnout among about 1,000 active members. Colgate Hoyt will preside as club president. Speakers include William K. Vanderbilt Jr on the Long Island Motor Parkway, Gen Horace Porter on cars abroad, Gen Nelson Miles on cars from a military view, Rev Wilton Merle Smith on pedestrians, and Patrick Francis Murphy on horsemen’s automobile perspectives. Aero Club of America members also have a reserved table.
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Amateurs Switch to 18 Inch Balk Line at Daly’s Academy
Five leading Class B billiard players will play 18.2 balk line next Monday at Maurice Daly's Academy. F M Canda, William Gershel, Co E Van Vieck, William Tomsone, and Mark Muldaur compete for 200 point games. The shift mirrors professional standard and could influence the National championship setup next year.
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Two East Side Families Suffer Poisoning After Pushcart Fish
Neighbors found Mrs. Rebecca Markowitz unconscious with her children Ida and Raymond in distress in their East Tenth Street apartment. Mary Te, a lodger, and later Nellie Jacobowitz also fell ill from suspected food poisoning after eating fish from a pushcart. Edward Markowitz and his son showed symptoms as clinicians investigated samples of fish grapes and coffee sent to health officials.
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Union Boat Club elects new officers after decisive vote
In a close race at the Harlem Casino 107 members elected a largely new board led by Herman J. Hijertberg or John P. Kemp for president with J L McDonald chosen captain. W J Neal M A Alleman secretary treasurer and directors Sinnott Holden Lyons Steen Ryan Kivion Grinsdale. Banquet followed as installation completed amid good will.
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Thomas J. Grinsdale
Prince Selma Sold to Austrian Buyer for 8000
John Splan sold the ten year old bay trotting stallion Prince Selma by Bow Bells out of Cora F. by Kentucky Prince for 8000 to Max Weess of Vienna. The stallion and Gratten Bells along with other horses will be shipped soon to Austria. Weess offered a breeding and training partnership. Splan will visit Austria before deciding.
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Trotting Association Posts Loss At Readville Track
The New England Horse Breeders Association reports a loss of 4705 dollars from the Readville trotting season. At the annual meeting, T Les Quimby presented the treasurer’s report. A new Board of Directors was elected including John E. Thayer and Ralph B. Williams among others and Quimby and Jewett were re elected.
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Arthur H. Parker
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North American Review Offers Expanded Features For Subcribers
Publishers urge periodical buyers to consider the North American Review as the oldest U S exclusive original matter Review. It is published twice monthly and reaches press three days before issue. Enhanced line up includes world politics, book reviews, Esperanto teaching, and Mark Twain content with Captain Stormfield tale. Subscription unchanged at five dollars for twenty four reviews. Subscribers before Jan 1 receive November and December issues at no extra charge.
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Contents I Issue of December 7th World Politics and Literature
Contents list covers The Gospel of Wealth Is the United States a World Power pending immigration bills by Ward and McGrath essays on Esperantists and Newfoundland fisheries dispute. Poems by Alfred Noyes and reviews of Gorky Gallienne De Morgan and Wendell. World politics note and sale at newsstands.
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Twain Autobiography Boosts North American Review
Critics hail Mark Twain’s autobiography installments in The North American Review as a literary coup. Readers praise Twain’s self portrait and range of emotion, while noting the magazine’s shift from monthly to bi monthly publication and its enduring influence. Joseph Mitchell adds a retrospective endorsement of the magazine’s century long history and future potential.
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