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Name Henry Lentz Winner Of Laurel Parlay Contest ContestBeats Beats Other Amateur Selectors For 1000 Bond in Tight Finish FinishLAUREL LAUREL Md May 4 Laurel officials announced today that Henry Lentz of Baltimore won the parlay contest for amateur handicappers held here last Wednesday and Friday Lentz who lives at 2219 Ashton street picked nine winners three seconds and two thirds to win a 1000 U S Savings Bond BondOn On Wednesday Lentz selected Precious Pet Carolyns Record Preemptor Royal Nip and SeeLSee as his winners He also had a second in Parnell Flyer in the open ¬ ing race and a third in Pomposity in the sixth sixthYesterday Yesterday Lentz returned to Laurel to name Amico Hanwar Lord Jeep and Bill W as winners with Pavion and Miss Charm his choices in the second and sixth events running second and Brudou his top choice in the opener winding up third thirdActually Actually there were seven amateur handicappers with nine winning selections In this case under the rules of the con ¬ test the winner was chosen from the pa ¬ tron having the greatest number of selec ¬ tions finishing second If there was still a Deadlock when that was completed then the one with the largest number of thirds was the winner winnerThis This was the case with Lentz He was tied with winners and second choices with James J Flynn Jr of 1572 Carswell street Baltimore but he had two top selec ¬ tions finishing third to Flynns one oneLentz Lentz 53 is a veteran of World War II and is pensioned by the government due to illness concurred while serving with the army during the war He was also a semi pro baseball player and played one year at third base for Easton in the Eastern Shore league in 1925 1925A A regular patron at Maryland tracks Lentz says he has been going racing for 20 years and used his own method of se ¬ lecting his nine winners rather than fol ¬ low any special professional handicapper
