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Show yaw fife! COL. ED BRADLEY still looks with much astonishment upon the optimism of mutuel players at the horse tracks. "They apparently never heard of the word 'percentage,' " he said. ' A "And that is a big word to know about. I have done fairly well In my time where the percentage percent-age was three, four and five points in my favor. Roulette is only a trifle over 5 per cent against the player." "But at the track big crowds, all expecting ex-pecting to win. Grantland Rice come bravely out bucking 11 per cent. I wonder where I'd been able to pack all the money if I had had 11 per cent working for me from the start, in place of something some-thing like an average of 4 per cent. It has been rumored that Colonel Bradley never went hungry on the 4 per cent edge. "No one can beat percentage," he said. "Not for any length of time. The mutuels are all right for those who expect to pay something for a day's fun or for a few thrills. But they are not what yon'd call a safe way of making money of making a living." |