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FLORENCE RYERSON CLEMENTS
In his wood-paneled London office near Covent Garden's clamorous produce market, A. B. (for Arthur Bernard) Clements, 60, editor of the Sporting Life, sat down one morning last week to flip through his mail. As usual, it contained requests for him to arbitrate disputes between British horse...
Bets, under British law, are not contracts, and disputes over them cannot be taken to court. Instead, Britain's racing fans toss their problems to Editor Clements and the daily Sporting Life. They get straight, prompt answers, which in track circles have all the authority that courts give to...
Bookie v. Tote Board. When Towler died, Odhams turned the paper over to A. B. Clements, who became a reporter at 14, worked his way up on the Sporting Life rewrite desk. Brisk, red-faced Editor Clements (called "A.B.C." by his reporters) runs a 55-man staff, every one willing...
Sporting Life's major crusade is against tote boards, which are gradually replacing Britain's famed bookies, with their derby hats, their rhyming slang-and their ads in Sporting Life. Writes Clements of the board: "Uninspired, uninspiring. To see the stolid, sad-faced queues lined up to bet...