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There are an estimated 100 fast-draw clubs in the U.S. today. Denver alone has 13. Members dress up in fancy Western outfits, tote six-shooters that cost from $50 to $125 and are modeled on the classic six-shooter of the Old West...
...entire mile and a half, at the finish of the $100,000 Washington, D.C. International was apparently an easy 3 ½length winner over the Australian entry Sailor's Guide. The University of Maryland band proudly played the national anthem. But the "objection" sign flashed on the tote board, and 21 agonizing minutes later Tudor Era was disqualified and Sailor's Guide named the winner. Explained Sailor's Guide Jockey Howard Grant: "Tudor Era kept riding me into the rail and I had to pull up. I said 'What is it with this cat?'" Ireland...
Bookie v. Tote Board. When Towler died, Odhams turned the paper over to A. B. Clements, who became a reporter at 14, worked his way up on the Sporting Life rewrite desk. Brisk, red-faced Editor Clements (called "A.B.C." by his reporters) runs a 55-man staff, every one willing at all times to bet on almost any issue, including how long it will take a fly walking up a wall to get to the ceiling...
Sporting Life's major crusade is against tote boards, which are gradually replacing Britain's famed bookies, with their derby hats, their rhyming slang-and their ads in Sporting Life. Writes Clements of the board: "Uninspired, uninspiring. To see the stolid, sad-faced queues lined up to bet on numbers at prison windows, the somber ritual repeated if, perchance, they are concerned with the payout-it is a dreary business...
...Texas, where most folks try hard not to forget the region's colorful, gun-smoking past, anybody may own a pistol without a license (but it is illegal to tote it). All that the most conscientious pawnbroker will demand of a prospective gun-buyer is a "certificate of good character." But the fact is, as Houston Post Reporter John Davis once wrote sardonically: "All you need...