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Show LEVY YOUNGEST MANAGER ON AMERICAN TRACKS NEW YORK, May 7. Wo havo had boy prize light managers, youthful Marathon Mar-athon runners and Juvenile wonders in the athletic Held, but now comes thc real initial youngater-racc track promoter in tho field of turfdom. He is Robert Levy of Houston, Tex., who la in Now York after carrying off a sooBon at Jamestown, Va,, as Impresario of the meeting there. Mr. Levy Is so young looking that one would hesitate to class him as a promoter and he doesn't look wealthy, but should you ask to borrow a twenty-dollar bill from him ho would wearily answer: "Oh, shucks I I haven't anything under a hundred. Hero, take that." Robert Levy, or Bob Levy, as everybody every-body In Texas calls him, arrived In New York, and like a duck, rinding wator, pulled up at the Aqueduct race track. Levy Is the young man his age Is uncertain, un-certain, he look's 17, but is probably 25 who invaded Virginia this spring and took a five-year lease on the .lamestown track after two experienced promoters had passed it up as a bad proposition. Mr. Levy loot $15,000 down there In the two weeks which the track ran, but ho announces that he will get it back this fall, or If he doesn't he will get It back next spring. You can't holp admiring a man like that, and nc will get hlu money back, too. Incidentally, young Mr. Levy gave Virginia tho best race meeting It haa had since the civil war, and he ran the track" llko a veteran. |