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...Crimson linksters returned yesterday from an idyllic spring trip to Florida and the Eden-like environs of Flagler College and proceeded to win their first match of the regular season, nipping Tufts this afternoon by two strokes over the Stow Acres golf course...
...played so many unbelievably tough courses in Florida that our guys were exhausted," said Donovan to explain the narrow margin of victory. The trip was vaunted as an all-around success by the linksmen, who were smothered by the conviviality of head coach "Hoops" Thebault and his Flagler golf squad...
...looking at some of the Florida scores, it certainly appears that way. While Harvard up against Milligan (4-2, 5-1), the diamondmen (8-1, 5-3, 11-3, 6-0). The brief interlude with Flagler and Embry Riddle was not much of a problem (6-4, 6-5), and it was Niagara that took the full brunt of the Crimson bats...
Presiding over this six-night-a-week hound happening is Isadore Hecht, 60, West Flagler's owner. The former tomato grower and banana importer bought the track 20 years ago when it handled just $14 million in bets during a 13-week season. Hecht modernized the plant and produced a greyhound gold mine. In 1972 the track handled $63 million in bets (8% went to management) in a 16-week meeting. Every night Hecht can be found in a posh suite of offices perched at one end of the track. There he can monitor the betting windows...
Like a Las Vegas casino, West Flagler keeps the price of admission minimal. The best grandstand seats cost 750 or 500, and one section is free. But in an "evening of fun," the average fan bets $72. Some of the more affluent, like Businessman José Martinez, can afford to lose repeatedly when they "wheel a Quiniela" for $6-track talk for placing a bet on three combinations of three competitors picked to win, place and show. "You never know," says Martinez. "You can have the best dog in the race and sometimes...