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...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 books" (i. e. bets made long before the race, at correspondingly long odds, and forfeited if for any reason the horse named by the bettor fails to run) on the Kentucky Derby. Tom Shaw had such...
...Louis' Tom Kearney is five years older than Tom Shaw, more famed among Midwest bettors than Shaw is in New York. In 1924, when Black Gold won the Derby, Kearney and Shaw cornered the winter-book business by paying their losses while almost all their competitors, who had laid odds as high as 100-to-1, felt forced to "welsh." At Tom Kearney's office-a large room in the rear of a 20-by-25 ft. wood-paneled cigar store opposite the Jefferson Hotel where he lives-nine clerks handle his business at five long tables. When...
...share -have been legalized in 23 states, bookmaking has increased instead of declined. Big bettors and system bettors prefer to bet against bookmakers because their odds, unlike pari-mutuel odds, are stable and their bets untaxed. A list of major U. S. bookmakers would include, besides Shaw and Kearney, the names of at least a half dozen men who live handsomely on their bettors...
Form of the Lourdes celebration was a triduum-three solid days and nights of prayer, 140 successive masses, one of which was celebrated by Bishop James Edward Kearney of Salt Lake City. More & more pilgrims arrived, sleeping on the open ground, until 100,000 gathered around the Grotto for the final mass by Cardinal Pacelli, with benediction broadcast from the Vatican by the Pope. Object of the whole triduum was Peace, according to the Holy Father's letter, "to look at and pray to the Madonna to intercede with God in order that the palm of peace...
Steadfast in his policy of rapidly advancing energetic young priests (see above), the Pope last week appointed not only the youngest bishop in the U. S. but also the first in the world born in the 20th Century. He was Very Rev. Monsignor Raymond Augustine Kearney, 32. His posts: titular bishop of Lisinia (Asia Minor), auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Brooklyn, N. Y. which includes all Long Island, is smaller (1,086,722 Catholics) only than the archdioceses of New York and Chicago. Jersey City-born, sandy-haired Bishop Kearney was ordained in 1927 in the Lateran Basilica...