The 1963 Belmont Stakes Derby in the New York Aqueduct Racetrack (110-00 Rockaway Blvd, Jamaica, NY 1142) of Queens, New York. Crowd watches. Horses including Chateaugay, Braulio Baeza, Willie Shoemaker, Bonjour, and Candy Spots run in the Kentucky Derby. Audience cheers them. Chateaugay wins the Belmont Stakes and 100,000$ price money. Candy Spots comes second.
The Atlantic Cat Club Competition in New York. Cats in the satin covered basket. Cats including Rosedear, Dresden Cotton Tom, Sir Boss of Khiva and Yum Yum on floor and their reflection on floor. Woman carries a cat on her shoulders, around her neck.
Newsreel clip showing baseball great Babe Ruth exercising indoors during the winter of 1932. Title card says he is demanding $80,000 contract -- he would receive a reported $75,000 instead. Ruth, wearing shorts and sweatshirt, climbs on stationary cycle and begins pedaling as a man rides another cycle beside him. Camera pans down to Ruth's well-known skinny legs. Ruth looks at clock on wall, wipes sweat from his face. Next, Ruth sits in 1930s-style sauna box and takes a sauna with a towel over his head. Other man playfully shoves his head while he is inside the box. Same man later seen wearing boxing gloves and throwing several punches at Ruth's stomach. Ruth takes a few, then delivers a left-handed punch to the head that pushes the much smaller man away.
Baseball newsreel slate says "Yankees' Submerge Cubs' Pennant Hopes" but footage is of game 2 of the 1932 World Series at Yankee Stadium. Wide shots of 50,000 spectators in crowd. Shot of Cubs' Billy Herman leading off game with double. Shot of Yankee pitcher Lefty Gomez throwing. Shots of Cubs Kiki Cuyler reaching first on error and Riggs Stephenson hitting fly ball to score Herman from third base. Shots of Cubs' pitcher Lon Warneke walking Earle Combs in bottom of 1st inning. Closeup of Yankees' Babe Ruth in dugout. Warneke walks Joe Sewell, strikes out Ruth, gives up run-scoring single to Lou Gehrig. Shots of Cubs' Riggs Stephenson hitting double in top of 3rd, scoring on single by Frank Demaree. Shots from Yankees in bottom of third: Babe Ruth walks, goes to second on single by Gehrig; minutes later, Babe Ruth runs home on base hit, followed by Lou Gehrig, who slides into home plate. Shots of Yankee stadium from outfield stands. Fans in stands, mostly men wearing hats, stand up for various plays. At end of game, won by Yankees 5-2, happy, celebrating fans spill onto field and many paper game programs are seen floating in the wind and on the field.
Dr. R.H. Lord, the American representative on the Commission of Polish affairs, George Louis Beer, the American Authority on colonial issues, and Mark Jefferson, Chief Cartographer for the American Peace Commission at the postwar negotiations seen talking amongst themselves. They are leaving for the Paris Peace Conference on the USS George Washington ship. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
French ambassador and diplomat Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand with former ambassador to Italy and France, Henry White seen talking to each other. They are leaving for the Paris Peace Conference. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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