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...cake and have it too. Back in the '30s, he had joined other truckers in getting federal rate regulation, squeezing out small, cut-rate truckers. It had helped so well that Keeshin had been able to buy the major interest in Chicago's enormously profitable race track, Sportsman's Park. Recently he had put up most of the $250,000 invested to start a new pro football team in Chicago...
...confused with his second cousin, Sportsman (speedboating, horse racing) Adolph B. Spreckels, whose sister, Geraldine, was the other Adolph's third wife...
...Navy since 1942, had a reunion with his energetic mother, Margaret Emerson, in Hawaii. The much-married (four times) Bromo-Seltzer heiress turned up as a Red Cross field worker, found that her 32-year-old millionaire-sportsman son looked less like a playboy...
...Island, which depends on racing for 8% of its state revenue. The betters jammed Narragansett Park 25,000 strong, could hardly wait to stuff $1,153415 (almost twice what they wagered on opening day last year) through the betting machines. In Chicago, a meager 13,673 turned up at Sportsman's Park, wagered an average $50 (against $37 on the same day last year). Other tracks joining the pony parade: ¶ Race-hungry Hollywoodish Santa Anita had planned to open up the day after the ban was lifted, found trouble getting help to man the mutuel windows...
...Browns went to work against the third-place New York Yankees-before an alltime record home crowd of 37,815-the Scoreboard showed Detroit trailing by three runs. By the time Chet Laabs had pumped the first Brownie homer of the day (he hit another the next inning) into Sportsman's Park's left-field bleachers, Detroit had lost, 4-to-1. A better team than the Browns might have wilted right then & there, but Luke Sewell & Co. were not even breathing hard; they breezed to a 5-to-2 victory and the Browns' first pennant...