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Setting a new mark for the Belmont Stakes and running within two-fifths of a second of Man o'War's one-mile-and-a-half track record, Joseph E. Widener's Peace Chance yesterday captured the sixty-sixth running of the historic race, which is the richest in the world for 3-year-olds.
A shortage of enlisted personnel, insufficient cruising for the ships of the fleet and the development of competition between ships to a cutthroat degree are some of the more important criticisms of the fleet's methods of maintenance and training voiced by naval officers here.
PURCHASE, N.Y., June 9. -- A hard-riding, hard-hitting Pennsylvania Military College quartet that had brilliant team work to support the sensational shot-making of Clarence (Buddy) Combs rode into the semi-finals of the eastern intercollegiate polo championship by routing Yale, 12 to 5, in a first-round match at the Blind Brook Turf and Polo Club today.
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1934Peter Gibson, English lawyer and judge[†]
Sir Peter Leslie Gibson, is a former British barrister and Lord Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, and was a judge of the Qatar International Court. Gibson has also served, between April 2006 and December 2010, as the UK's Intelligence Services Commissioner, and was appointed by David Cameron in July 2010 to lead the Detainee Inquiry. He is an honorary member of the Society of Legal Scholars.
1934Tom Pendry, Baron Pendry, English politician (died 2023)[†]
Thomas Pendry, Baron Pendry, was a British Labour politician and member of the House of Lords. He was previously the Labour member of parliament for Stalybridge and Hyde from 1970 to 2001. In 2000, prior to his retirement as an MP he was made a member of the Privy Council on the recommendation of Tony Blair. After the 2001 election he was elevated to the peerage on 4 July as Baron Pendry, of Stalybridge in the County of Greater Manchester. He was president of the Football Foundation Ltd and was formerly sports advisor to Tameside District Council Sports Trust.
1934Frederick Delius, English composer and educator (born 1862)[†]
Frederick Theodore Albert Delius was an English composer. Born in Bradford in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce. He was sent to Florida in the United States in 1884 to manage an orange plantation. He soon neglected his managerial duties, and in 1886 returned to Europe.