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Chico Marx runs an ice cream wagon at a racetrack. When he spies Groucho placing a bet on Sun-Up, he intercedes, sells the visitor a tip. When Groucho fails to understand the tip. Chico produces a code book from the ice cream wagon, sells Groucho the code book. When Groucho fails to understand the code book, Chico sells him a master code book. By the time the transaction ends, Groucho has a whole library of code books. Chico has Groucho's money, which he bets...
...Admiral, ridden by seasoned Jockey Charley Kurtsinger: the 47th Preakness Stakes, for a prize of $45,600; by a head, after a neck & neck drive against Jerome H. Louchheim's Pompoon, whom he outran by almost two lengths in last fortnight's Kentucky Derby; at Pimlico racetrack, Baltimore, Md. ¶ Marshall Eldredge, 36-year-old East Weymouth, Mass, mechanic: the tenth annual 130-mi. Albany to New York boat race, No. 1 event of the year for outboards; at 41.7 m.p.h.; in a Jacoby Flyaway Special...
...Bowie, Md. racetrack Vice President John Nance Garner, Senators Nathan Lynn Bachtnan of Tennessee and Sherman Minton of Indiana bet $2 each on Minton, a rank outsider, won $24.90 apiece when Minton came in first...
Around the track slowly toured a curious contraption on wheels followed by harrows and a screen. It was a '"cooker," like the ones used to melt asphalt on highways, with six blast torches to dry out the ground. At Santa Anita, called the world's best racetrack, 18 miles northeast of Los Angeles, all this was part of the world's richest horserace: the Santa Anita Handicap...
Married. Guy Waggoner, 58, Texas racetrack owner (Arlington Downs), co-administrator of the $100,000,000 oil fortune left by his father, W. T. ("Old Dan") Waggoner; and Virginia Joan Greene, 20, Dallas department store clerk, his sixth wife; in Colorado Springs, Colo. Fortnight ago he divorced his fifth wife, is reported to have paid her $500.000. Said Father Waggoner once: "Anybody who can't appreciate a pretty woman, a fast horse, and a good beef steer-well, something's wrong with his head." Divorced, Mrs. Lou Hoover Dunbar, daughter of retiring Dean Theodore Jesse Hoover of Stanford...