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GAINS ON REFUSED TICKET Omahas Assistant Mutuel Manager Keeps Ticket After Customer Declines Same and Wins. OMAHA, Neb., May 30. — Because a couple of Ak-Sar-Ben racing fans had trouble making up their minds when buying tickets at the mutuels at Saturdays opening, W. I. Fewster, assistant to Lou Walger, manager of the mutuel department, is about 0 richer. Fewster, temporarily operating the automatic ticket machine at a combination window, had this experience: A man said: "I want a ticket on Hocking, Number 3." The machine issued ticket number 3, but Hockings number in the race was 7. The man refused to take ticket number 3, and Fewster obliged by taking it and issuing the customer ticket number 7 — on Hocking. Ticket number 3 won and paid 9.30 on the combination ticket. The second customer who changed his mind after his ticket had been issued also made a mistake. The ticket he did not want was good for a short win price, while the one he got brought zero. Because of the operation of the automatic ticket machines at Ak-Sar-Ben for the first time, Mr. Fewster explained, every effort is being made to satisfy customers. "Their mistakes are honest ones," he said, "and we all do our best to see that everybody is satisfied — even when they change their minds."
