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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...
...Journal so 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...
...Jockey Club rule, become a year older. Unofficially, the start of the Santa Anita meeting marked the start of the 1937 season. With no super-horse to attract special attention, the 1936 season went on record as horse racing's most prosperous year. In 15 states that permit pari-mutuel betting, $1,000,000,000 changed hands. Leading jockey of the year was Basil James, with 239 winners through last week. Leading trainer was the onetime pigeon fancier, Hirsch Jacobs (TIME, Oct. 26), with 173 winners. Leading horse of the year was Granville...
...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...
Rhode Island's Narragansett has been a good thing ever since its fast start two years ago, when the State Legislature weakened before smart lobbying and legalized pari-mutuel horse-race gambling. Within a month the Narragansett Racing Association was incorporated and before the summer was done held its first race with paint still wet on the grandstand. The track takes 62% of all bets made, keeps the "breaks" (i. e., odd pennies left over after bets are paid off to an even nickel). Including the breaks, Narragansett's take last year was $2,174,000. Concessions, programs...