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With no wartime blackouts to worry about, hard-luck Gulfstream Park (plagued for five years by bankruptcy and anti-racing bans) raised its purse ante 100%. For its opening-day Broward Handicap last week, Gulfstream drew too many horses (enough to run in two divisions), twice the attendance (20,216) it drew on commencement day last year. The mutuel handle-with $805,866 jammed through the machines-was up almost...
After ephedrine, what? Benzedrine, said the Maryland Racing Commission. Evidence: the saliva test on Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark's Cosey, winner of the Fairmount Steeplechase Handicap at Pimlico. Result: Mrs. Clark's stable, top steeplechase money-winner of the year, suspended pending hearing-the third ban for doping horses handed out by the Maryland Commission this season...
These unfortunate, though timely, lapses from form may, or may not, constitute a "jinx." They are exceptions to the scores of sports figures who have found TIME'S cover no handicap (e.g., Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey, Helen Wills, "Red" Grange, "Bobby" Jones, Mickey Cochrane, Yachtsman Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt, Bullfighter Juan Belmonte). It is worth noting, however, that TIME took no chances with its first sports cover: Horseman Stephan ("Laddie") Sanford (March 31, 1923). His horse (Sergeant Murphy) had already won the Grand National before the cover appeared...
...inflation is a murderous handicap to trade. There is a wonderful Shanghai story of a case of sardines which was traded around in maybe 20 transactions with everybody making money. Then one smart guy opened a can, then several others picked at random; all were bad. Outraged, he called up the last seller and complained. Cried the seller: "You opened them? My God, man! Those sardines aren't for eating, they're for buying and selling...
Most newspapers still felt the handicap of incompetent or depleted local staffs. But the city editor was becoming an important man again...