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.)
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.