Word: parimutuel
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...trouble centered around Yonkers Raceway, the nation's leading harness track, where million-dollar nights at the parimutuel windows are commonplace, and spectators outnumber the fans at Ebbets Field...
...Parimutuel. In Mobile, Ala., a highway cop spotted two cars racing at 80 m.p.h., pinched Drivers Johnnie Gamble and Noble Hurry...
...back at work again. The bureau reported, in tones of some admiration, that Dettmer actually did have a slightly unusual system: betting third-money choices at harness tracks to win and place. Rigid investigation disclosed that he had won every nickel of the extra money fair & square in legal parimutuel bets, had duly reported his winnings on his own tax return...
...bookies throughout the country. Through distributors which the committee branded dummies, it gets its news by wigwag or telephone from the tracks, flashes it by Western Union teletype throughout the country. It supplies last-minute news on track conditions, horses scratched, changes in jockeys, last-minute odds at the parimutuel windows. Big-time bookies must have it to lay off bets when a "hot" horse gets a dangerously high play, to get the results of a race 1,000 miles away in a matter of minutes, and to keep a winning customer on the hook for the next race...
...Bigelow Plan of Ohio, calling for a $50-a-month pension after the age of 60, went down, 1,527,577 to 460,537. Parimutuel went in in New York, setting Pundit Mark Sullivan a brooding: if you check gambling on the stock exchange, does it come surging back on the race tracks? Socialist Jasper McLevy stayed in as mayor of Bridgeport, Conn. Socialist John Henry Stump went out as mayor of Reading, Pa. Boss Edward Crump was elected mayor of Memphis-only to keep his machine in power, since he is to reign for five minutes Jan. 1 before...