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...Pimlico racetrack, near Baltimore, War Admiral went to the post in the Pimlico Special a 1-to-20 favorite, shortest odds of the year at a major track. There was an excited roar from 15,000 throats as War Admiral, usually first from start to finish, could not get out in front, trailed a mediocre horse named Masked General all the way to the home stretch. Then Masked General ran out and War Admiral squeezed home a lucky winner, to bring his 1937 earnings to $166,500. Owner Riddle announced he was retiring him for the season...
...Armstrong is by no means Hollywood's sole venture into sporting promotion. Middleweight Champion Freddy Steele is partly owned by Bing Crosby, who also supports a girls' baseball team called the Croonerettes, promotes a $3,000 golf tournament, and is the principal stockholder in the Del Mar racetrack near San Diego. Producers Hal Roach and Jack Warner are No. 1 and No. 2 stockholders in the Santa Anita racetrack. Jack Benny, Jimmy Durante, Spencer Tracy, Barbara Stanwyck, Mrs. Zeppo Marx and many another own horses. Clark Gable used to own one named Beverly Hills. Victor McLaglen...
Walter Edmund O'Hara is a dapper, quick-witted little Irishman of 40, who three years ago crowned a lifetime of varied business and sporting activity by building the $1,200,000 Narragansett racetrack near Pawtucket, R. I, developed it into one of the richest racing establishments in the U. S. Robert Emmet Quinn is a fiery little Irishman of 43, a rough and tumble politician who crowned his career last year by getting elected Governor of Rhode Island. That the Union's smallest State is too small to hold two such little Irishmen was a fact which...
Instead, he has shut down the track himself by a proclamation of martial law. Generals and soldiers are occupying the racetrack, and patrolling it day and night. Hardly any civilians can enter Narragansett Park except Mr. O'Hara who lives there and a few trainers and grooms for the horses...
Suspended. The license of Narragansett Park racetrack, with a contingent order that Owner Walter E. O'Hara be removed as managing director before Sept. 30; by the Rhode Island State Racing Commission; in Providence. This culminates the longtime feud between Horseman O'Hara and Rhode Island's Governor Robert E. Quinn (TIME, Sept. 20). "Narragansett," said Owner O'Hara, "will not open next season...