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Chicago bookmakers were annoyed last fortnight by the mysteriously accurate racing tips of a "Mr. Sullivan." Last week they were further perturbed when Linden Tree, who had been regarded as a 1 t03 favorite in a two-year-old race at Agua Caliente†, won at the surprisingly long mutuel odds...
...bound to pay their clients at mutuel odds, which are theoretically a fair expression of opinion. But the mutuel odds on Linden Tree did not seem to be a fair expression of opinion. How this came about was explained by Baron Long, hotelman, racehorse owner and part owner of Agua Caliente Corp...
Chicago bookmakers, who stood to lose an estimated $40,000, were relieved when they received despatches from the General News Bureau, which supplies general news to U. S. bookmakers: "After a careful investigation, it has been found that trickery was resorted to in the first race at Agua Caliente. . . . We advise our clients...
Four hours by car, an hour and a half by plane from Hollywood, Agua Caliente is the most elaborate pleasure resort in North America. It was organized three years ago, largely by 34-year-old James Crofton who had previously been a racetrack barker at the squalid little border town of Tijuana, three miles farther...
North. Under Agua Caliente's bizarre red roofs and stucco walls are gambling rooms where cinema celebrities and others who can afford to lose are encouraged to expand the limits at roulette, birdcage, chemin de fer, craps. There is small call for champagne cheaper than Mumm's Cordon Rouge. Agua Caliente's golf tournament-first prize $15,000-is the richest in the world. Even more of an attraction than these for Hollywood plutocrats has been the racetrack, which was constructed at a cost of $2,500,000 by removing part of a mountain. The Annual Agua...