Word: longshots
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March 26 begins the three hundred and twenty ninth annual New England battle of man against the longshot, which sees the sovereign state of Rhode Island and generally shifty-eyed guys in sharkskins as the only sure winners...
...team starts you wondering how it got that way--four wins in four contests is the total so far, with 129 points tallied against four bootless (and scoreless) opponents. But the record, as those on the inside would testify, doesn't tell the whole story by a longshot...
Still, the horseshoe of roses may well go to a longshot-such as Blue Pair, Little Beans or Market Wise, who was an unlikely starter until he beat King Cole, the East's leading candidate, in the Wood Memorial at Jamaica last week. Market Wise's owner, a Long Island businessman named Louis Tufano, took part of the $16.000 he won, hired a private car, shipped his Cinderella horse to Churchill Downs...
...were offered. Rumor recently whispered that Thomas Gardiner Corcoran was advising him on ways & means of controlling his State's delegation to next year's Democratic Convention, possibly with a view to obtaining another nomination for Franklin Roosevelt, perhaps to offer New Deal support to Longshot LaGuardia...
...Texaco affairs, in Texaco meetings, in Texaco fields and refineries. President Holmes, whose library on Napoleon is extensive, found this interest very annoying. Texaco has had a tradition of down right individualism ever since it was founded by John Warne ("Bet-a-Million") Gates & friends in 1902 - a longshot bet on a little $3,000,000 concern which had grown out of a wildcat gusher in the Spindletop pool. Ralph Holmes went to Texaco at its founding. Grandson of an oilman, he was raised in Olean, N. Y. near the Pennsylvania oil fields, quit school to go into refining...