The Washington herald., 1920-07-23
Tann1any Clowers at Cox Wilson
Atahlty and Votes for Women;
Thousands Flock to Race Course

goodwill OF modern Eve, Mr. Muir
ply replied:
NO. We must help them and
have them beholding to us"
That was how the famous hands
off. boys" order came to be issued
from Fourteenth street. The vote
itself shows that Tammany actually
turned in and did put woman's
suffrage across for the suffrage
majority in the greater city-nor-
mally Democratic-was exactly l03,-
sb3. The women lost upstate New
York by 1910. A close analysis OF
the New York figures further re-
Neals that IL was in the strong
Tammany districts where the heav-
lest suffrage vote was cast.
Defeat Candidates.
Since then the women have gone
TO the polls and simply slaughtered
the local Tammany candidates.
Last year they showed under Tam
many's candidates for the Supreme
Court in Manhattan and the Bronx,
for register. sheriff. district attorney
and county judges in Kings. and for
president of the Board of Aldermen
in the greater city. Tammany, hav.
ing had bitter and costly expert
ence with the beautiful and the fair
has lost faith in women voters and
secretly expects little or nothing
from them in the Forthcoming ma
tional campaign. Concisely put, in
the Vernacular of the Bowery:
Women gave us the double cross
once and they will do it again"
Jim Buffers Empire City race
track is getting a tremendous play
! from the public these suffocating
/ dog days" / am informed that up
| ward OF 5000 personal checks are
exchanged between the bookmakers
and the known betting clients at the
, close of each days racing. This
does not take into account the cash
transactions all over the city and
country, the handbooks and wildcat
pool rooms.
In the leading racing journals. the
'one best bet," Dark Maiden" and
long shot special" offers from OBJ
servers. turf experts and track re-
porters fill columns of space. just
one glance at several pages of these
tipster advertisements tells the story
of the revived interest in racing
and indexes the extent to which II
has come back.
10000 Attend Daily.
Those who have not been to a
race track since the betting ring
was abolished will enjoy a tabloid
picture of present-day track condi-
tions, where the attendance now IL
averaging around 10000 daily
The Empire City course Is stu
swept plain between Yonkers and
Mount Vernon, and in easy trans
portation reach from New York,
devotees, fully 40 per cent of whom
are women. Entering from the ives,
side of the track, one passes
through the gates of an iron fence
into a pretty little wooded park
back of the grandstand. On the
right, behind the clubhouse, is the
paddock, while on the left are
parked hundreds and hundreds OF
motor cars.
Passing around the grandsta nds
one finds the mile track pleasingly
spread to view, its east side opening
upon public highway, where
motoring "cheaters" often slow up
their automobiles for a fash at a
race. The well-trodden aspect of
the ground in front of the grand
stand Is mute evidence of the re-
ne wed popularity of the sport.
In this area a row Of dragons
teeth. high UP in the grandstand,
arc the bookmakers. They scan the
slips~Hs they are brought to them.
II the bookmaker finds the sigma
ture o, X, he tucks the slip away
with other slips In . large envelope