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1 » I 1 : FORMER CHICAGO TURFMAN IN LUCK. A New York dispatch says that John A. Drake. whose tiHine was on the tip of the tongue ubeii the United States Steel corporation was formed and horse racing in its heyday, has gone into stock antclatton again and built up big credits 011 the l«nks of brokers Mr. Drake, a friend of the late , John W Mtes has operated from uptown hotels. lb- is tlie only one of that party, now speculating from the brokerage parlors, which used to be known , as the Wnldorf crowd. He still makes his specula-• live hea.bninrters at the Waldorf. Drake Is credited I with taklna 00 obO out of Studebaker alone as that st.,,1: soared from 92 to 105. He is also MM to 1 have taken money out of General Motors and Steel i comm..ii and altogether to have proCts of at least a million..
