The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-28
TOdGyS Sports
 Parade
BY HENRY McLEMoRE

United Press Stan Correspondent ]
 Budapest, Aug. 28.-(UP)--Suck- CTS must look the same the world over. There must be something about Q true chump which makes him as distinguishable in Budapest as in Chicago. Otherwise, how did Q racetrack. tout known enough to run straight to my side two minutes after I had passed through the gates of the Hungarian Jockey club at Budapest2
 There were hundreds of other race-goers all about that tout, with Q look in his face that only his breed wears, came swiftly and un- erringly to my side. He had spotted Q sucker and was just about to make him his. It didn't take him long. Five minutes after being cole Jared, I was standing before the twenty pengoe" window playing the equivalent of $4 smack on the nose of an article named Holomany, the second.
 My presence in front of that win- dow, tout by my side, came close to proving that I am the all-tiIne free-style sucker. Let mo explain my exact status as I stood there showing money across the board. I was Q stranger in strange land. I didn't speak one word of Hum garian, had never been to c Hun. garian racetrack and didn't know whether the race I was betting on was 10 yards or 10 miles, on the flat or over ditches. The system of betting was totally strange to me. The cashier could have given me q ticket good for one free ele- vator ride and wouldn't have known the difference. Even if Hozomany the second won my chances of knowing about his Vlc- tory were slim. And even If ho did, and I found out about it, where would I take my ticket to be cashed7 I had no idea of the odds on my selection and I knew absolutely nothing about his past perform. ances. For all I knew he might be a milk horse in Q field Of stake runners.
 Tn short I represented mother ig. norance as I stood there, cash in hand.
 The fact that my tout was able to maneuvey mo there 50 quickly was no credit to my basic wit content. Ho spoke no English and his ges. lures, while plentiful, were bit short of being informative. He backed up his gesticulating by pointing to paragraphs oE my pro. gram but the writing was as ufl. intelligible to me as hieroglyphicS written in Pig Latin.
 The paragraphs undoubtedly were pregnant with meaning but I'll copy Q few lines and lot you see for your self why they left me cold. Here is one batch of writing he was par- ticuiarly enthused about: "Az otodi. knek veggett smeBig kell visszain- enni, hogy megbizhato tampontot kaphassunk, miutan elol Szcronadal es tra, nal lefele jol futo Majdnem keliett de ez czxak mintahogy nyerte fofmaj jotal juntl dc hogy legjobb."
 It looked even worse than that ifl the program for my typewriter hasn't the necessary gadgetH to put oil the little swallows, BparroWS, fly- ing fish, flotsaIn, jetSam and gen- eral debris over the letters than Hungarians do.
 I finally rid myself of the tout by the stern measure of giving him 0 fistfull of pengoes and fillers-- and went in to see Hozomany the second run his race. That name Wat given him by doting parents for he was no where near second at the finish. He was about seventh af- ter having been held off the pace as my old friend Paul Hirtenstolfl of the Chicago Daily News would soy for too long c time.
 Toutless I went about and made q study of Hungarian betting by fny' self. Betting iB of two kinds--par mutuel and bookmakers. I won'I say how the pari-inutuols work ovei here, but the bookies are tho same They are placed off under 0 shet and each has his own platform ant stool. I patronized one whose Cart read thuBly:
 "Klopfer Jeno.-B -Bookmokor Fo' gadsi irodajA. Fiokirodak: zuglt Bosnyak.ter sixteen. Tel. 2.e7i04 ezeged; KelemensU Eight. Teiefof i200e."
 I don't know what Klopfers' Cart means in it's entirety, but 1 have Sneaking suspicion that that "F0 gadsi 1rodaja" business means "shor prices . speciality of the house" Dc cause l had c winner which reBefi1 hied c hungry blow puller and Klop fer gave mo only g to 1. To my dy ing day, m believe tho honest pric on that bag Of bones vas some where between 900 and 300 to 1.
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