Evening star., 1941-07-23

on.
There will be no night clubs fea-
turing a dinner of frog s legs a la
roulette There will be no restau-
rants where one can get blackjack
along with his boulllabalsse, no hot
spots where the singers chant OF
/ unreouited love and Little Joes'
that never turned up, no roadhouses
where the menu reads from soup
to faro.
No, that's all out.
That's gambling. and that's bad.
A fellow micht lose his money If
he ran into that sort Of thing. or
get the gambling fever in his blood
and wind up playing marbles for
keeps.
Visitors with a little extra cash
will have to be satisfied with horee
racing. They'll have to spend thor
time and save their money by A.
tending that hotbed Of culture and
thrift, the race track.
In New York State horse racIn.
is not considered a means OF gam
bling. 1t is looked upon as nothln2
more than pastime IN which re-
liable and noble steeds run around
a track carrying fine little citizens
on their backs, all for the improve
ment of the breed.
1t is taken for granted in tnlS
commonwealth that there Is abSo-
lutely no risk in betting on horse
race. A man simply walks up to 4
wicket. buys a ticket and then re-
lakes until the best horse comes
ealloping home to pay profit.
Why shouldn't there be this
sublime faith in the sport OF racing?
As every one knows. it is mighty
hard to lose at a track. Everything
is so up and aboveboard, to start
with.
Take the horse. No one has ever
questioned a horses honesty. You
can search the world over without
finding a single horse in jail ior
embezzlement, forgery, blackmsil or
misuse of the mails.
The same goes for the trainers.
The occasional stories you read or
hear about how trainers have
stabbed their horses with long
needles full of opium or fed them p
steady diet of supercharged pills are
all typographical errors.
As for the owners, a good Is per
cent Of them would no more think of
tampering with their horses than
they would of crying for help If they
we're drowning
But the real guarantee that the
best horse always wins the race,
and that man will always profit
If he invests on the standout horse,
are the jockeys Jockeys must be
honest, else how have they sur
vived all the Investigations thev
have undergone? Every time you
picked up paper you read where
some jockey with an unpronounce-
able name is being set down or held
up or barred for so many days. Only
q profession that had its roots deep
in honesty could withstand so many
cries of crook. crook. The men
who operate tracks show their faith
in the honesty Of jockeys by en-
gaging only or 10 judges to watcn
them during a race. If they had
any real doubt as TO the riders
honesty, they undoubtedly would
employ a score or more HawkeyeS.
In excluding horse racing from
the games of chance 70 be barred
at Saratoga. the New York Sta;8
government has. in sense, come
right out and guaranteed that M
visitor to that famed spa will lose
a dollar on the nags This can only
mean that the boys at Albany know
all the winners. because no one
NOI1O pclly " lIllllh l'i
a moment that horse racing is given
a fair haired child's rating simply
because it yields the State millions
and millions of dollars in revenLe
each year.
So. 1 want the official Albany
tout sheet. I want the list OF win
ners. In the language Of the track,
l want the boys at the capital to
send me the names of the oat-
burners who are the sure-thinFs,
the shoo-ins. They must know EN-.
else how could they rate the horse
as better risk than the dice, the
roulette wheel or the bird cage
distributed by McNsusht Syndicate, Inc
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