Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week the smart money was riding on Eastern colors. But some bookies were beginning to bet that the judges would call off the whole show, pare down the field for a final running next year...
...Mateo's picturesque Bay Meadows, a sorrel-haired and taciturn young (35) rival, Willie Molter, had already won 114. Four of Willie's horses galloped home out front last week. Many a West Coast horse fan, convinced that betting on Willie is as good a way as any to win, bet on everything he sent to the post. They did it without Willie's blessing; like Jacobs, Willie seldom bets on a horse race, and never more than $10. (A typical paddock conversation goes like this: Owner: "Well, Willie, how do you like my horse today?" Willie...
...than he had gotten at New Haven. Vag dried his face and tried to think of all the strangers he had promised to meet at the first postwar Game. He winced when he remembered how his mask of indifference had dropped one day and how he had offered to bet anyone even money -- without asking any points -- that the Cannabis would take the first...
Fred Gimbel sent Macy's Straus a direct challenge. He offered to bet $25,000, $50,000 "or any amount you care to name" (with the winnings to go to charity) that Macy's could not disprove his claim to the underselling championship of Herald Square. At Macy's, where they have a policy against opening books and telling Gimbals, there were no takers...
...appearances the bet football team dick Harlow has fielded in his ten years at Harvard, a highly favored Crimson eleven comes to grips today with a much-mangled Brown Bear in the 45th renewal of their Ivy League rivalry. Bookmakers have made the Varsity a 14-point choice for the contest, which gets under way at the Stadium at 2 o'clock...