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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1919
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR text from a Lexington page item. Readable elements include place names and numbers but lack coherent context or complete sentences. The item may be a brief local notice or column fragment with scattered abbreviations and exclamations.
A garbled list of Belmont Park horses or entrants appears with many misspellings and fragmentary names such as The Washington Fast Filsen Tallycvanell Thornbloom Urest Hill Flare Otto Floto Constancy Parr Toujours Startling Roos Quietude Purchase and others like Mayberk Warsaw and Cincinnati Mogarrer. The text reads like a race program dump of horses and handlers with inconsistent spellings and scattered surnames.
Hobey Baker, a Celt-Augusta Victoria colt, won the opening race at Havre de Grace amid a muddy track. Flying Welshman led early but faded. Eddie Rickenbacker was also fancied. The program featured two year olds and several unlikely contenders, with Sand River II setting the pace before Baker surged ahead. Other stalls produced mixed results as bettors watched a crowd enjoy the day.
Havre de Grace notes wire that Pur chase is favored to start in the Potomac Handicap as a 132 pound choice alongside Sir Barton. J Ceney reports moving from New York with J H Rosseter horses while W A Prime’s yard supplies twelve mounts. Audacious from the Schwarts brothers travels with Prime recere, and several sales and claims occur, including Fanny Cook for 1700 and Buckborn for 33000. A promising two year old filly Fiscarpoletti by Fitzherbert, dam Balancarle, trained by Mrs Moore, works at Pimlico. A H Diaz and associates may visit Havre de Grace next week for racing. Mickey Sheedy eyes winter-track prospects after service discharge.
At Belmont Park on September 12, Jack Stuart, a long shot, surged in the final yards to beat Royce Rolla in the Cedarhurst handicap for three-year-olds and up. Spur finished third as John I. Day and Cadillac battled to a six-length win for the former in the fourth race. Weary, Pictor, and Jock Scot posted other notable results as the five-race program unfolded with several upsets and close finishes.
Atlantic City August 12 R D Morgan fed Washington shooters to day in the annual tournament of the Weary Hogans with 150 of 160 targets Scores of other Washington men were E G Ward 146 A B Stirte 144 W D Monroe 182 J H Hunter 129 J C Wynkoop 118 The West defeated the East in the annual intersectional team championship Henderson Kentucky State champion high amateur gun for the three days with 472 of 480 targets topped both amateurs and professionals by breaking 159 out of 160 targets today
Washington bankers expect the comptroller of the currency to issue the call for reports of condition within days ahead. The annual American Bankers Association gathering in St. Louis September 29 to October 2 draws many from the capital, with a special train from New York on the 25th. Delegates include Charles J. Bell and others.
Chicago September 11 Gerald Patterson and Norman Brookes, Australians, won the United States doubles championship in international matches opening today. They defeated William M Johnston and Clarence J Griffin of San Francisco, the former holders, in straight sets on a hard court. Johnston was off his game while Brookes showed finishing tennis and Patterson power.
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