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Show H. I. PHILLIPS From a Winter Playground . Shudda Haddim, the Egyptian horse player, is down in Miami, I where he reports he has had such phenomenal luck that he has almost ! "broke even." He enjoys Florida racing, where he says it hurts less to lose money on account of the nearness of the gulf stream to the $2 windows. "Well, here I am In the land of Ponce Dl Liar," he writes, "and it is still SO, 15 and 6 that I the fountain of youth won't even show, but I love It. Them coconut co-conut palms does sumpin' to me. If I gets switched off of a good thing It don't give me the same pain it does when I lose under a northern maple or oak tree. "A lot of drugstores sell square aspirin tablets so they can be marked up with dots and used for dice before taking. The butcher gives you his track selections se-lections with every pound of hamburger. Every doorman marks your card for you. There are bridge tenders who won't raise the gates until you give them a sure thing. a "Losing money down In Florida Is easier and It hurts less on account of you dress right for it. You ain't got much of a shirt on to begin with. And the pants Is such lightweight light-weight that even if you lose them you don't miss them." |