Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everyone owned horses, when a farmer or two in every township had a fast trotting horse in his barn. Most of the racing, but not all of it, was done in the fall of the year, when farmers had time to go to the races, and had money to bet. Sometimes two lively farmers might make a bet on their horses, race them down the main street while the townsfolk gaped at the speed, the dust, the men leaning forward on the seats of their sulkies, swinging their light whips. But if its popularity has become polarized, the honest traditions...
Died-Thomas W. ("Chicago'') O'Brien, 68, racetrack plunger; of cancer; at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. One of the few turf gamblers to win consistently, his biggest bet was $100,000 that Man o' War would outrun Sir Barton (which he did) in a match race in 1920 at odds of i to 20. Once a bricklayer, and with no other business than betting, he died a millionaire...
...Champion Max Schmeling. The New York State Boxing Commission considered him good enough to call heavyweight champion of the U. S. Mickey Walker was welterweight, then middleweight champion before his manager Jack Kearns, onetime manager of Jack Dempsey, got him selected as an opponent for Sharkey. Kearns wanted to bet any part of $100,000 that Walker would win; but the odds, when the fighters went into the ring, were 3 to i, with Sharkey the favorite. Sharkey weighed 198 lb., Walker, a little heavier than had been expected...
...part in flippant blackouts-in one he has to wriggle his giant form under a bed. He sings. In his curtain talks he fingers his straw hat diffidently, looks incredibly happy when his jokes cause laughter, bewildered when they do not. Sample of the Broun humor: "I made a bet that Abie's Irish Rose wouldn't run a week. . . . Finally I bet that it wouldn't run forever...
...classmate made a bet that he could eat (drink) ten "lead shots." He won his bet, but my modesty prevents me from telling...