richiebee Wrote:
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> There are many problems facing the Racing game and
> its players, but we
> sometimes take for granted the access to the game
> which we currently enjoy.
>
> Each day The Staten Island Advance reprints a page
> from its morgue.
> Today\'s reprint, from May 14, 1943, featured a
> small article headlined \"265
> Cited for Driving to Pimlico Track\"
>
> Office of Price Administration officials reported
> last night that 265
> Pennsylvania motorists had been cited for driving
> their automobiles to the
> Pimlico race track near Baltimore last week.
>
> The motorists will be summoned for hearings next
> week before Israel Parker,
> state rationing counsel and those found guilty of
> violating the pleasure
> driving ban will face suspension of their gasoline
> rationing privileges.
>
> License numbers of the machines were forwarded
> here by Baltimore OPA agents who
> took 158 numbers during the running of the
> Preakness Saturday.
>
> (For those keeping score at home, Count Fleet won
> the 1943 Preakness, run on
> May 8, on his way to capturing the Triple Crown.)
Great find!
This made me remember how many times when I was starting up that a huge part of going to the track was a bus ride, train ride, or car ride with friends or fellow horseplayers. Those trips were instrumental in the making of a horseplayer. Something that has now virtually fallen to the wayside.
