Word: mutuels
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...Oregon, churchmen unsuccessfully supported bills to ban liquor advertising, "hard drinking" in hotels and eating places, pari-mutuel horse and dog races. However, they counted as a triumph an act outlawing pinball and other coin gambling machines, although the bill was vetoed by the Governor...
...insistently. Both Journal and Bulletin oppose Mr. O'Hara's Narragansett track. Not very high in the established social scale of U. S. race tracks, the Narragansett course is nevertheless one of the most lucrative in the land. Into the stout little satchels of its pari-mutuel cashiers are packed hard-earned Rhode Island dollars to the tune of some two million a year. The Star likes to attribute the Journal and Bulletin hostility to the fact that their owners own no stock in the track. Certain it is that Bulletins hefty department store advertisers look...
...spending $25,000 on Peruvian olive trees in the paddock, Bird of Paradise plants on the terraces. Santa Anita's $50,000 to the 1936 Los Angeles Community Chest was that charity's biggest single contribution. The law allows a track to keep 8% of all mutuel bets and "breakage"-odd nickels and pennies when bets are paid off to a dime. Two years ago the Santa Anita management agreed to take only 6%. Last year, breakage at Santa Anita...
...Christmas Eve the three-race pari-mutuel total at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans was $107.20. The five-race total was $169.80, the seven-race $219. Taking, in order, the last digit in the dollar column in each total, the result...
That number-799-was of vast importance to hundreds of thousands of U. S. citizens, white and black, for Fair Ground mutuel totals are currently used in the best numbers games. It was particularly important last week because the play was heavy in the hope of a Christmas Eve killing. Last year a Negro on Relief in New York's black Harlem dropped dead from shock when...