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...trouble centered around Yonkers Raceway, the nation's leading harness track, where million-dollar nights at the parimutuel windows are commonplace, and spectators outnumber the fans at Ebbets Field...
Last August, Labor Boss Thomas F. Lewis was murdered outside his Bronx apartment by a hired gunman who was killed, in turn, by a policeman. Lewis was president of Local 32-E of the A.F.L.'s Building Service Employes' Union, which had free rein at Yonkers Raceway...
Trouble Insurance. Lewis, it turned out, had run Yonkers Raceway as though he owned it. The management meekly agreed to hire hoodlums and ex-convicts brought in by Lewis and ignored the state law requiring sworn affidavits outlining their backgrounds. In the three years that Yonkers Raceway has been operating, the management also shelled out $165,000 to four labor "troubleshooters." The payoffs were made to prevent "labor disturbances" which might close the track...
Penny's Ante. The names of some of the owners of the Yonkers Raceway, meanwhile, were made public. Head of the Yonkers Trotting Association and owner of all voting stock is William H. Cane, 79, sportsman who built Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City (scene of the Dempsey-Carpentier "Battle of the Century") and promoted the Hambletonian at his Goshen, N.Y. track as the nation's top annual harness race. Other stockholders included J. Russel Sprague, G.O.P. national committeeman, boss of Long Island's Nassau County and close friend of Governor Dewey; Dr. Richard Hoffman...
...Roosevelt Raceway, N.Y., the Arden Homestead Stable's Florican, a six-year-old trotter with nothing to show for eight previous starts this year, went as a 15-to-1 shot into the invitational $25,000 American Trotting Championship. When the mile-and-a-quarter trot was over, Florican had not only picked up a $12,500 winner's purse but had also smashed the world mark for the distance by more than four seconds with a time...