Word: racetracks
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...Royal Box. The Belmont is the name of a hotel, Belmont is the name of a racetrack, Belmont is the name of a theatre. With the others the Belmont Theatre has much in common: the one caters to transients, guests for a day, a week; the other presents events of speed. Many a speedy transient will have been under the roof of the Belmont Theatre before the season ends. Already the fourth of the season has come, will go. It presents Walker Whiteside in a comedy first written by Alexandre Dumas, rewritten and presented three decades ago by Charles Coghlan...
...Westminster, Md., Senator Bruce of Maryland bumbled to an audience that Nominee Hoover had "taken numerous drinks with Clarence Darrow, noted criminal lawyer"; that Nominee Curtis had been seen "at Pimlico racetrack with a bottle of liquor in his pocket." The Darrow canard, stale and previously denied (TIME, March 5), was promptly denied again by Lawyer Darrow...
Like Nick F. and Nick the Greek, many gamblers are known by mysterious and confusing titles. The most successful racetrack gambler at present is Chicago O'Brien, who regards running horses as an investment. Saratoga is his capital; he plays one horse a day, usually a favorite, and never goes broke overnight...
Died. Nicholas Forzely, 50, famed racetrack gambler; of septic poisoning in Manhattan (see page...
...Votes (1908) both for and against bills providing prison sentences for racetrack gamblers. Votes (1910) against two bills tightening the gambling laws...