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...deal like a football himself, has been turning his every horse hunch to gold. The first day he appeared at Saratoga he won the astounding sum of $108,000. On another day he won $50,000 and on the closing day $15,000. Admiring Bookmaker Tim Mara told how Bettor Rooney had been talking football to a friend at the Saratoga rail when the news was brought to him that the horse on whom he had bet $12,000, had won but had been disqualified. Rooney went on talking football. On another occasion he nipped a coin to decide where...
...Churchill Downs last week, bettors wagered nearly $500,000 on the Derby. On an ordinary horse race, for every dollar that is bet at the track, $10 are bet elsewhere. Total moneys that changed hands on the Derby probably amounted to more than $10,000,000. Conspicuous by their absence in the crowd at Churchill Downs last week were the two bookmakers generally surmised to have handled a larger share of this than any of their confreres: Thomas J. Shaw of New York and Thomas Kearney of St. Louis, the only important bookmakers in the U. S. who make "winter...
Careful investigation has satisfied TIME 1) that Bettor Hill is an earnest as well as a facetious purist; 2) that he, possessor of a vast football library, was sincere in his devious criticism of TIME's use of "All-America" and "All-American"; 3) that though correct in the instance he cited (calling Bill Corbus "Stanford's All-American guard"-TIME, Nov. 20), TIME has in other instances erred in the use of "All-American"; 4) that at least one TIME-reader (C. H. McWilliams of Wilmington, Ohio) perceived Purist Hill's concealed point. For purity...
...betting letter, Bettor Hill said: "Your muchly touted Bill Corbus TIME entitled 'Stanford's All-American guard' never was named for any position on Grantland Rice's All-American, much less for the position of right guard." In the plain meaning of this sentence, Bettor Hill was wrong. Bill Corbus was an "All-American guard" on Grantland Rice's 1932 team. Now Bettor Hill says he meant that TIME'S error lay not in placing Bill Corbus but in using the phrase "All-American." Even granting that this is what he meant, Bettor Hill...
...Bettor Shouse declined to pay $4,840 of the Treasury's assessments against him for three years, writing off his $30,481 total for horses and politics. The Board of Tax Appeals, after mulling over the case two years, sanctioned the deduction of the racing bets on the ground that Mr. Shouse followed racing for profit; but ruled that the election losses "were the result of an illegal transaction" and therefore nondeductible. A compromise settlement of $1,218 was accepted by the Treasury...