In its policy of getting along with the powers that be, Long Island's fabulously successful harness track, Roosevelt Raceway, would never dream of turning down an influential freebooter. Last year Roosevelt, from $17,831,522 in revenues, disbursed $699,391 for publicity, entertainment and advertising, including a trifling $104.02 in March to recompense a junketeer named "G. P. Miller" for bed, board and beverages at the Langford Hotel in Winter Park, Fla. Who was G. P. Miller? Last week the answer was splashed on the front page of the New York World-Telegram and Sun: "Miller" was none other than the state's Commissioner of Harness...
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