Word: runners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each layer last week had to employ a clerk to register bets, a cashier to pay winners, a runner to carry wagers from the clubhouse. To belong to the betting ring was expected to cost about $90 a day. Total bets on the opening day, in which the feature race was the Paumonok Handicap which Sgt. Byrne won at odds of 3-to-1, amounted to $500,000. Estimated revenue to the State at the end of the racing season in New York State...
...DEATH SHIP - B. Traven - Knopf ($2.50). Yarn of a U. S. sailor on a gun runner; hard-boiled but a little overripe...
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...Varsity fencing team and several graduates yesterday met in the first matches of the University Fencing Championship. After a close series of encounters, Henry P. Walker 1G, of the Harvard Fencing Club, emerged triumphant to take first place in the sabre event. Edward A. Ackerman '34 gained the runner-up position after displaying a strong attack which Walker had difficulty in checking. Both men dueled well in the preliminary matches and easily defeated the other contestants...