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...Altogether Townley bet about $16,000 on him to win -and Sterope won by a slim half-length While Townley waited, the stewards reviewed the claim of foul. They not only disallowed it, but fined Jockey Charlie Smirke $100 for making a "frivolous objection." After collecting his $600,000 Plunger Townley said with the air of man who means it: "Betting is a fool's game. I think I'll go in for breeding...
...chief scout, Sincere S. Hocanbe, reports that the Hanover Hooligans use a tight V-formation, with a blocker on each side," said Fiend, the Crime's chief plunger. "We're going to work on all the angles, however, and perhaps we can open up their defenses...
Good Medium. Back in 1916, he said, a spiritualist had put him in touch with the ghost of James R. Keene, the famed Wall Street plunger. Keene had tipped him off that the "insiders" rigged the market every day, using a code that in recent years had appeared in the Bringing Up Father comic strip. Said Goldsmith: "It took me an awfully long time to break the code, but once I did, it was simple to predict the market with 90 to 95% accuracy...
Died. Anthony Joseph Drexel III, 34, gentleman-farmer great-grandson of Philadelphia Banker Anthony Joseph Drexel, great-grandson of the late Wall Street Plunger Jay Gould; of an accidental gunshot wound; in Oakley...
More sinister is the Toledo jam. After each nickel the player inserts, he jams the coin plunger in as hard as possible. Eventually the spring returning the plunger in as hard as possible. Eventually the spring returning the plunger weakens, fails to work, and the swindler enjoys some ill-gotten games...