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BY HAROLD SCHERWIT2uBe Careful Wenk'5 started today i race ran that she couldn't see how at the Alamo Downs lace track. It ! Statecraft could be 40 to 1 since li tA ln e^.i n,r(V lt;. |weverybody she knew had a ticket si» i to 10 (and that a the correct 1 op him \odds, in fians. so don’t throw a S pop bottle at me) thaL more thanThe Saturday riot had a funny side today. Clark Nealon, Lightcne nian will check carefully the betting iigures on every horse in t raring reporter, whacked by a pop every race and that the payoffs will bottle, costed a siRn over his type-oe whai the odds board calls forlight down to the penny. Since the, posted a sign over writer in the press box:Notice to all. This is the pressSaturday rumpus in which State- i box. We do not determine mutuclsI craft closed at 40 to 1 and paid off I straight ticket holders at 4 to i for j somethin? over £10. fhe safest bet | you can make at the track here ispayoffs, dope horses or call finish-tbat thore’lt be no more accidentes. Kindly lay off.”A strong movement was under foot to equip the press box with shatter-prcof glass.And even the harried track officials had to laugh when they saw among the rioters an operator of easy to lose and hard to regain ‘ a £l* machine “palace/' yelling: even irhsn errors are honest, as, G€t cm. This is a gyp game.Ihat one c.ndcublediv was. Bui the niutuels department, which is verv! jIke that. What damage that horrible ton a- did can’t be Estimated yet. because public confidence iswell managed by .Tcc Barr, isn't soing to figure in any more slip-up:?. —:f thai'.s cor/jolatmn now—andyou can plunge Dn that.We can * Fympalhize with a mob far which there is never any earthly excuse, but every man who has ever , risked ?. couple of bucks on a race j can appreciate the feelings of Uwc I who be I on Statecraft, ssw him j come in and. ox peeling ebcui £22.I were paid £70With a numberj of those tickets cxsned at $10.80 \ and no record kept of their holders. | of course, pay in? off at the posted lt;x*dsisouto? ths question now. Be•Sports fans who may have sworn off racing and gone back to baseball will be interested in knowing that Hank Severe id isn’t satisfied with his Mission club even if il did win a double-header at Oklahoma City Sunday. Hank hasn't said so in as many words but a chance remark is picked up every now and ’hen, players talk a lot, and it's plain that he doesn't think cither Mazzerd or Trweek will hold up through the long summer grind or that he can get along without one more first-class pitcher.Bettercomt’s batting has been exceedingly spotty but Larry probably will level off and be an cx-: s'ds. it would be ?. concession to I tremely useful adjunct Sri the out-! mob rule, which is unthinkable- i *ie]d Saatt of the St. Louis cor-But i: still seems to us that there j respondents at the Browns’ camp was extreme carele.ssne.ss alon? the i Sussed along the information thatLine and that no mutucls should have bre.i poted on the in field board at ah i:nl:] an explanation was attempted. The track officials ' ho had control of that weren't thinking fnst; if 5l mi.vtake like ihal ran be mad p. there’s room forin-proven;sir. to 0:r. system. Folks rather would wait a minute or so longer to learn ihc amount they collect than be shocked with such a payoff as they got Saturday. After all. the odds board is the only means the public has of knowing how the totting Is going. Vrtiy on earth somebody didn’t wake up to the Statecraft situation beats me. MJsjs Tic*, the owner of the horse which her too1 her, Freddie Tice,they took the base In U out of Larryk bat when they were taking the celebrated hitch out of his swing.’ Sevcreid never has been a manager to complain of a batter's style If he delivers, and wo may see Bettencourt again hitching” ’em out of the park.If It's, true that Scvrreid wantsa pitcher and two outfielders, he'shi a position to know better than anybody else 2nd the St. Louis Browns might as welt get Jt over with and provide him with capable men. Severeid’s Judgment of players has been quest toned a lot in the thre« seasons he has led the Missions but ft always has proved correct in the long run. Hank livesrode horn* winner, was quoted a.s | baseball, and he knows bah play-savins bo several rxople before the J ers.
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San Antonio Light
San Antonio, Texas, US
Mon, May 13, 1935
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