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There has not been an empty seat at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens for 20 years, and the Boston Bruins, who have finished last in the National Hockey League for five straight years, regularly outdraw the Boston Celtics, who have won seven straight National Basketball Association championships. So the N.H.L. decided last week to expand from six to twelve teams, granting new franchises to Los Angeles, St. Louis, San Francisco-Oakland, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh...
...number of tracks has grown to 32 in seven states,* attendance has climbed 40% to 10 million a year, and the pari-mutuel handle is expected to top $500 million in 1965. At least half of that will be bet in Florida, where 16 tracks (four in Miami alone) outdraw the horses by a margin of 2 to 1. Florida dogmen classify their sport as "nighttime entertainment." The big tracks run eleven 5/16-mile to 9/16-mile races an evening (purses: up to $80,000), provide extras like free parking, bar service, "lead-outs" in white dinner jackets to parade the dogs...
...spokesman for CRCC, Helen S. Garvy '61, said yesterday that demonstrators will picket outside Sanders Theatre, where Wallace is speaking, and then march to the rally. She said the CRCC hopes its rally will outdraw Wallace's speech...
...Rugby Club Saturday concluded its most successful season in several years. While the first fifteen ended with a respectable 4-2-1 record, the Club as a whole managed to field two complete teams with two separate schedules, upset highly-touted Princeton, outdraw the baseball team, and whip the Cricket Club at cricket...
...Wisconsin, like Symington and Johnson and the rest, he's just not competent." The Results: "If I win this thing by only a few thousand votes, I'm taking it as a victory. The popular vote tells the story. If a Bostonian can come out here and outdraw a Midwesterner in his own backyard, then to me that's a victory. I don't care what the delegate count says." Obviously, Jack Kennedy was setting the rules to fit his game-i.e., was carefully bracing himself in case Hubert Humphrey should win more Wisconsin delegates...