Evening star., 1961-08-29
Blond Tells Senators About Signals
Used to Flash Horse Race Results
BY the Associated Press

A shapely platinum blond
says she sometimes gets s25 a
day for secretly signaling
horse race results to a con-
federate outside the track.
Miss Lucille Lorraine Rice
told the Senate Investigations
Subcommittee yesterday she
had been arrested in Miami
and barred from the track at
Atlantic City, N. j., after being
detected flashing the signals.
A neat figure in a tight
fitting beige dress. she gave her
address as Laurel, Md, and her
occupation as "a reporter"
She shared the witness stand
with Alex Estrin, also of Laurel,
who told far more volubly of
his own adventures in spying
on the tracks. Mr.. EStrin said
he and Miss Rice work as a
team for the Delaware Sports
Service.
Iced Horses HOOfS
The WelSh-born EStrin ad-
mitted he has been barred from
racing. He said this is because
he was found to have iced the
hoofS of a race horse owned
by his father, just before the
start of a race.
Some trainers have been
known to resort to this to
minimize pain in the legs of
unsound horses.
Mr.. Estrin said lit is barred
from most tracks.
The two witnesses told of
their techniques for beating
the rules against unauthorized
transmission of race results.
Miss Rice said every little
movement has a meaning all
its own to the confederate out
side the track. as he watches
with binoculars and stands with
an open telephone line to the
Delaware Sports Service.
She said she signals with her
hands, the position of her pro-
gram and by facing right or
left to let the confederate know
who won.
She said she was barred at
Atlantic City last Monday after
her first venture into inside
the-track spying there this
year. She said she was ar
rested in Miami in 1852, but
she did not give details of that
case.
Mr.. Estrin said the spy inside
the track who signals is known
as the pitcher" and the one
watching with the binoculars
as the catcher"
Often, he said, no one is
needed inside the track, if a
vantage point can be found
from which to listen to the
track loudspeakers or view the
tote board on which winners
and odds are posted.
Harold Kelly of Queens VIII
lage, N. Y. who described him
self as a reporter by day and a
trailer truck driver by night,
told the subcommittee he uses
binoculars to get the winners
of races either from the tote
board or from a signaling con-
federate inside the track.
He said he is paid $125 weekly
but after hearing these fig
ures today I think I'm going to
apply for a raise. . I'm going
to go after them tonight"
Senators Signal
The subcommittee produced
evidence that track spoilers are
paid as much as 5000 weekly by
the Delaware Sports Service.
Mr.. Kelly said he works at
Belmont, Aqueduct and Sara
toga race tracks in New York.
At one point during his testi-
mony, Mr.. Kelly motioned to
where Senators Curtis, Republi-
can of Nebraska, and Erwin,
Democrat of North Carolina,
were sitting and said:
That Senator just gave me
a No. g."
He also said Senator McClel-
Ian had given him a signal for
No. 3.
Senator Mcclellan then
scratched his left ear and asked
what's this?"
mo. T." Mr.. Kelly replied
amid laughter from spectators
and committee members.
Mr.. Kelly said Rudolph Atlas,
described by the subcommittee
as an employe of Delaware
Sports Service, arranged for the
vantage points he used during
races. One, Mr.. Kelly said, is
a pigeon roost atop a house.