Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-05-11 | Page 4 | Ruth Millett Says: Woman's Job is Picking Winners-at Races

Ruth Millett l Says Womans Woman's Job Jot Is Picking Winners At Races Under a hair drier in a Fifth avenue beauty salon is hardly the pl place ce one would exp expect ct to interview a professional horse race handicapper Yet that is where I 1 found Hambla Bauer J a y young woman whose job is writing a newspaper newspaper news- news 3 paper c column lumn about the races at New York II f tracks and picking winners f Hambla knows horses and she has been t t earning arning her living by that knowledge ever since she quit Radcliffe college to support herself by buying race horses ch cheap ap getting them in condition and racing them I k Her new brand-new column appearing daily in inthe inthe inthe the New York World Telegram is her first I newspaper job In addition to her column of turf comment comment comment com com- ment each day sh she attempts to pick the winners winners win win- ners for the next days day's races It gives her quite a thrill to see a man on Ruth Millett his way to the track tear out Hambla Bauer picks and put it in his pocket for future reference Feminine intuition does hot enter into her selections she insists I 1 pick them entirely on the past performances she says firmly Since opening day there has been only one day when she had but one winner But that day no oth other r handicapper had any winners at all Miss Bauer gets just as excited at the track when a horse she has pick picked d for her r readers aders wins as though she had a bet beton beton beton on him herself A little more excited if possible for each time her reputation tion is at stake Funny thing about Miss Bauers Bauer's job With all ll th the talk about jobs bei being g hard to get one came looking for her Right in the middle of a journalism course at Columbia university a horse paid her tuition she was offered her present job So she s he quit going to school But sh she clips h her r column every day and sends it to her Columbia professors who feel that when they encouraged her to study journalism they picked a winner