On Christmas Eve the three-race pari-mutuel total at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans was $107.20. The five-race total was $169.80, the seven-race $219. Taking, in order, the last digit in the dollar column in each total, the result is 799.
That number799was of vast importance to hundreds of thousands of U. S. citizens, white and black, for Fair Ground mutuel totals are currently used in the best numbers games. It was particularly important last week because the play was heavy in the hope of a Christmas Eve killing. Last year a Negro on...
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