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Adrian Constantine "Cap" (later "Pop") Anson, 71, baseball player for the Philadelphia Athletics and player-manager for the Chicago Cubs, who during his record twenty-seven seasons as an active player in the Major Leagues had a lifetime batting average of .399 and more than 3,500 hits, 14 April 1922.

George Archibald, 37, American steeplechase jockey who won more than one thousand races in Europe, including 180 in England, two of which were for King George V, 5 April 1927.

Louis P. Bayard Jr., 46, a Princetonian who was the first National Intercollegiate Individual Golfing Champion in 1897, 3 July 1922.

August Belmont Jr., 72, New York City subway developer, financier, thoroughbred breeder, and chairman of the American Jockey Club, 10 December 1924.

Lee Bible, 42, dirt-track racer killed while attempting to set a world's automobile speed record in a 1,500-horsepower Triplex at...

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