Omaha Easily Triumphs In Preakness: Marvelous Totalizer; Best and Largest of Mechanical Registers of Pari-Mutuel Wagering.; Indicator Board Almost 100 Feet in Length in Infield to Carry All Details of the Betting., Daily Racing Form, 1935-05-13

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TRIUMPHS PRFAKNFSSImUlilI IN PRFAKNFSS ImUlilI ilu 111 1 lYLmYliLJJ Iff A ni7FT ATTO TAVlIITMPn MARVELOUS TAVlIITMPnMARVELOUS TOTALIZER Best and Largest of Mechanical Reg ¬ isters of PariMutuel Wagering Indicator Board Almost 100 Feet in inLength Length in Infield to Carry All AllDetails Details of the Betting In a tiny room deep in the Washington Park grandstand ayoung electrical engi ¬ neer will throw a huge switch late next Thursday afternoon When he does and if the men under his direction have made no mistakes in threading hundreds of miles of wires and soldering thousands of connec ¬ tions the most modern totalizer ever con ¬ structed for the registering of race wagers will be ready for the Washington Park open ¬ ing that is scheduled for May 25 25Chicago Chicago racegoers have seen the totalizer in operation before at Arlington Park and registered their approval so strongly that most major racef tracks are adopting the device But the totalizer installed at Arlington in 1933 was one of the early mod ¬ els and the engineers have had experience in building six other totalizers since they finished the one at Arlington Park Total ¬ izer No 8 which will serve Washington Park patrons is a great improvement over the earlier models capable of performing virtually every betting operation save the making of change and the picking of win ¬ ners nersLARGER LARGER THAN ARLINGTON BOARD BOARDThe The most noticeable portion of the new totalizer will be of course the huge indi ¬ cator board in the infield The old timers stand that graced the finish line at the Hpmewood course has been levelled and in its place there has arisen a totalizer odds board almost a hundred feet in length Much larger than the board in the Arlington in ¬ field fhe Washington Park board will carry the amounts wagered upon each horse in the straight place and show pools the totals in each pool odds and other information usually scattered over several boards The infield board can be seen plainly from both the clubhouse and grandstand betting rings so only one other board is necessary This is under construction close to the pad ¬ dock and will serve as a convenience for the holders of winning tickets who are wait ¬ ing at the cashiers windows windowsIn In addition to being the most modern to ¬ talizer ever built the Washington Park tote is one of the largest Under the pres ¬ ent set up there will be 150 selling machines capable of carrying many times the betting load that is likely to be placed upon them on afternoons such as American Derby day dayMOBE MOBE CONVENIENT LOCATIONS LOCATIONSThe The locations of the sellers windows will be much more convenient at the rebuilt Washington Park course than was the case in former years To begin with the sellers windows in the main line in both club ¬ house and grandstand have been placed on the side nearest the track Formerly the cashiers windows faced the track Then two new sellers departments have been opened One is in the middle of the grand ¬ stand about half way up the incline in order to save patrons seated high in the stand the necessity for going downstairs be ¬ tween races The other is at the back and top of the clubhouse and will serve a sim ¬ ilar purpose for clubhouse patrons The man who sits at the center of the LOOmile maze of wires constituting the to ¬ talizator ready for the most complicated emergency is a young electrical engineer named Oscar Levy As one of the worlds leading experts on totalizer installation and operation he is an important racing figure these days At Washington Park he hopes to realize an ambition denied him in his previous seasons at the leading tracks He has never seen a horse race and he thinks it would be interesting to watch one some afternoon


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