Uncollected Wager Wins At Suffolk Downs Cache
Fifty thousand dollars from Suffolk Downs remains unclaimed as gamblers discarded winning tickets. William Ritt notes bets, and fashion and myth interweave in a column linking vintage coal scuttle hats, John L Lewis, the Hope diamond saga, Atlantic City hotel workers striking, a boardwalk joke, and a Russian claim of a 1000 mile bicycle tour by a pioneering cyclist.