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TULSA MAN FOLLOWED ADAMS Played Across the Board on Champions Mounts on His Big Day Last Week. TULSA, Okla., April 13. Roy F. Ford, a Tulsa lawyer with offices in the Mayo Building, would furnish good material for a Ripley "Believe It or Not" broadcast. Credit it to a premonition, hunch, what you will, Ford must have had some sort of warning that Johnny Adams, champion rider of 1937, was going to break loose at Bay Meadows on Thursday, April 7, and he decided that he was going to "ride" with Adams. Around noon last Thursday Ford hied himself into the place maintained by Ed G. Thrasher, Tulsa layer, with whom Ford does all his betting. There he planked down the money to cover :00 across the board bets on all of Adams mounts. He did not parlay his bets, otherwise all of Tulsa would not have been able to pay off. However, he did win 7.70 on Miss Amie; 3.00 on Danke Schon; 6.50 on Rock X.; 6.50 on Dr. Spoon; 7.00 on Monsweep, and 9.00 on Undulate. Thrasher was around after the shooting was over asking race fans to figure what the total would have been had Ford made his play a parlay at .00 across the board. He failed to find anybody willing to delve into such stupendous figures and Daily . Racing Forms statisticians have enough j headaches themselves without seeking out I such tasks.
