Pincus Talks of Sunday Racing., Daily Racing Form, 1907-01-01

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PINCUS TALKS OF SUNDAY RACING. "There is nothing new about this Sundaj ra at New Or leans. I ti - - ! to arc racing on Sunday* over ih«- ..1.1 Met a trie iiMorse in the 30s," said Jacob ; Iimiis. the veteran trainer lo ■ proup of lurfmen in a ,eu Stork cafe the other day. ■lint it was of ■ aMh different eharaetei nun that which has bees deacribed to me aa occurring it tiie present track in Algiers, Ii s is toi everj Sundaj and the motive wss not commercial. Colonel Ten In was the charge de affaires at Metalrie in those lays and when the regular meetings, all told about ta weeks in December and anotlier two weeks in the nprlng, came around it was bis custom to turn over the track aa Sundays for tbe n- - ■ ! the people who could not attend during tbe week and who ronM no! afior.l to paj the week-daj i.ii.-.-s of admission. The charge at the gate on S ays s is oolj tun cents. The till mis in i was always targe and n-i able There was. of ronrae, i I selling, but we beard nothing of any |tulUng or ruling off or lighting. We were not all saints in those days, but we were on the level, lived In the tear of God and enjoyed oareerees."


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