Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spinks Pasha will continue to draw a salary and expense account of $60,000 per year from the Egyptian Treasury. He is nominally employed by fat King Fuad, in that monarch's interest. Actually his duties are to see that the Egyptian Army does not become potent...
...virtual lotteries. Hundreds of thousands of prices tickets are sold, all numbered, at prices seldom above ?1 ($5). The total ticket sale, less operator's percentage, is the prize money. Numbers are drawn for the horses entered in the race. The vast majority of ticketholders, failing to "draw a horse" lose their bets. The dozen or so lucky subscribers can sell shares in their tickets for large sums, thus profiting certainly before the horses have won, lost or failed...
...Calumet Ave., Chicago. His chief club, The Turf Club (Chicago). His sons, Devere Joseph and George Joseph Jr., are in civil service and sportdom, respectively. George Joseph Jr. achieved some fame as a pugilist (nom de combat, "Jose Alvarez, the Mexican Kid") and fought "Kid" MacPartland to a bloody draw in his last ring appearance, in Illinois. Mr. Warner Jr. now bets on race horses...
...Admiral Bristol is the only pearl in our yoke of thorns!" cried the official Turkish newspaper Milliet last week, and its editor declared himself "inflamed with consuming anguish at the departure of our Great Friend." What has Mark Lambert Bristol, hard-swearing quarterdeck-man, done to draw such a halo of fulsome Turkish affection around his trim Admiral...
...Barbee '28, the leading moundsman of the Crimson staff, is slated to pitch. The choice of his opponent is uncertain. Fons, star hurler who was roughly handled in a relief role in the first Holy Cross tilt, may draw the assignment, although indications point toward the selection of Dobens, a southpaw pitcher who plays in the outfield when he is not occupying the box, Dobens appeared in the ninth inning of the first game, and did not get a fair chance to display his wares against Harvard. Last Saturday at New Haven he shut out the strong Yale nine...