Word: bets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bet on the big fellows in the rain," a friend advised, "'causes the little ones catch cold too easily." Clocker did and lost $12. "Play your favorite number and then work backward through your family's middle names," another friend advised. Poor Clocker. He dropped...
...evening he found the true clue was to bet on the number one dog. This hound has been trained to run by the rail. That makes him a safe bet since he's first to the inside post and closest to "jeep...
...week-old fish.) Workers' Weakness. Strike or no, the race-track elite could have done worse. Alf Rubin, 38, the Worker's wide-eyed little cockney handicapper, who prints his picks under the name of "Cayton," is the best in the business. Last year, a $2 bet on every one of his choices would have brought a profit of better than $160-a remarkable performance. Alf and his paper make a strange combination. Politics, to him, is a vast irrelevance; horse racing, to the Worker, is a questionable capitalist diversion.* But back in 1935, the paper needed...
Clocker Spanielle, CRIMSON handicapper, backed his choices at Suffolk Downs yesterday with $25 apiece. Result: a net profit of $140. Playing the sure-fire-method, Clocker bet all his horses to show...
...first race, Robert Dear, unpicked by any other handicapper in the Boston area, romped home third and brought in $125. Prompt Boy won the second going away, paying $42.50 to show. Anon, Clocker's best bet, came in second to match this earning in the eighth, but Little Ferd, and in-and-outer, ahead at the half-mile mark in the fourth, dropped...