 The 100,000 to handicapped is scheduled to be run at Santa Anita Park, California. The program, which follows Avalon Time, answered by the Brown and Williamson Corporation, will be interrupted so that you may hear a description of the race by Clem McCarthy. We take you now to Cincinnati. A package of Avalon cigarettes, please. Yes, sir. Oh, just a moment, sir. Don't forget to change. You never guess, but Avalons cost you less. So why not have it, Avalon? Thank you and good evening, friends. This is Del King saying welcome to Avalon Time with greetings from Red Foley and the entire company. Well, now that all the big league teams are in spring training, we find Red Skelton in Avalon, umpiring one of the Chicago Cubs training games. We give you Red, out at first, Skelton. Ball four. You're out. What do you mean, ball four? I'm out. The bases are full, and I got no place to put you. See what you get for balling me out there booing you now? Let him alone, folks. Don't boo him no more. He's all right. That guy's so dumb, he thinks a two-bagger is those things under Fred Allen's eyes. That was cut, Peter, but thanks. Good enough for me, boy. I'm through umpiring. Every time I umpire a game, something happens. Last year in New York, I yelled strike and 17 pickets ran out on the field. Hello there, Skelton. Hello there, microphone. Say, why don't you park your hair in the middle? Why should I park my hair in the middle? Every block should have an alley. Hey, don't bother me, will you? I'm busy man today. Hey, Jackson, give me one of those hot dogs, will you? With sauerkraut. A hot dog with sauerkraut? Okay. I'll chain one with a bail of hay. You sure like ball games, don't you, Mr. Skelton? Yes, I do. My whole family are crazy about baseball. I even got a baseball dog. He catches flies, he wears a muzzle, he bats for a home every time he sees the catcher. Oh, I'm heading for the shoes. These wagons are killing me. Oh, lookit, I have a brother that's playing baseball on one of the big government teams. He's got a lot on the ball, but the chain's holding him back. One day, he was standing out on 3rd and the guy hit a pop fly, so he started to run home, but they got him as he was going over the wall. He's a great baseball player, though. One time, they were playing night baseball, and the lights went out, and the convicts were so crooked they played three endings without a ball. I understand that Roosevelt found out how much they made baseball last season, so he's going to throw out Congress and put in the New York Yankee. There's your hot dog, Mr. Skelton. And I'll bet the poor thing thought I was Thomas Dewey the way I grilled it. Hey, this hot dog got a feather in it. That's all right. It's probably a bird dog. Well, look who's coming across the baseball diamonds, folks. It's Red Foley, the singing star of Avalon Time. Hey, hello there, Skelton. Hello, Foley. Come on over. Buy your hot dog. No, I promise the boys I'd sing them a song, and here it is. What are you going to sing, Red? Uh, singing in the saddle. Well, that fits baseball. Yeah. I'm singing in the saddle. God me from above. I've been rounding up the load. Now I'm heading for my range. Househead of the hooves. I'm a hummingbird. It's a perigal who knows I'm a hummingbird. I'm a singing star. Skelton. Well, hello, Peter Grant. Boy, you look like a happy man. Bet your life there. May I say this hasn't been cut, too, has it? No, go right ahead, Peter. Step over the cigarette stand here with me more, will you? Yeah, OK. Well, here we are. A carton of Avalons, please. Oh, a carton. It used to be a pack. Well, I'm sorry, sir. We have only seven packs left. Yeah, that's the way these Avalons sell. They must be all right. All right. Here it comes, Louisville. Oh, tell them about them, Peter. My friend. My friend, the reason you sell so many Avalon cigarettes is because your customers realize they're getting more for their money. Yeah, they're getting more for the money. They get finest quality cigarettes for three to five cents less than other popular price brands and make no mistake about it. Avalons are finest quality. Yeah, Avalons are the finest quality. Remember that, brother. In fact, you could want no finer quality cigarettes regardless of price. Regardless of brand. Rigid. Thank you, Red. I'm sorry, that was your line, wasn't it? OK, Peter, keep it up. You're getting a crowd around you now. Well, Avalon cigarettes are 100% union made from the world's choices, Turkish and domestic tobaccos. They are real cigarettes, friends. That's why you'd never guess they cost you less. All right, Peter? Right, Red. Superfine tobaccos, a really superior blend at a real saving. Yes, sir. So the next time, why not ask for Avalons? Ring a cash register, brother. What is it, class? And don't forget your cash. Oh. Not bad, huh? Say, if I didn't know you're better, Peter, I'd swear you intended that to be a commercial announcement. See you later, Red. OK, Peter. It's along. Oh, hey, Jackson. Give me another one of those hot dogs, will you? Gee, I don't know what's the matter with me. I can't get enough of those hot dogs. Oh, I wouldn't worry about it. You're probably just a glutton. Look, there's maybe a lot of trouble. Just give me a litter of those pups, will you? Hello, Mr. Scalford. Oh, hello, Miss Dill. Oh, my, you look pretty enough to kiss. Yeah, and you look dumb enough to try it. My goodness. Where did you get that suit? What's the matter with it? Well, nothing. Only it's the first checkerboard I've ever seen with patched pockets. Yeah. What's the matter with a suit? Well, it's the latest thing. The only thing I don't like about it are the pants. They're a little tighter than the armpit. I'm going to get my pajamas in the pockets. There's no room for anything else. Oh, hello, Professor. My, my. How are you, Mr. Scalford? Thank you, sir. You look great tonight, Professor. Thank you. I've seen people with bags under their eyes, but yours look like steamer trunks. The question must be a Lulu to have you to get away from your program. Well, what is the question, Professor? Come, come. It's on your mind besides it's a pay that looks like a wet rabbit. Oh. Well, the question is, what is a hot dog? A hot dog? A hot dog is a hamburger with tights on. Thank you so much. When you go horseback riding, horseback riding, you get a headache. Yes, I do. Well, with me and Spicer Bertha. Oh, that Professor's a great guy. The only thing he owes so much money, is making up his misses now. He owes so much money that his creditors fall him to theaters on bank night. I don't know, this routine's pretty tired. I think I'll go get some shed-eye in it, will you, Phil? I wish to thank the Brown and Williamson Corporation makers of Avalon cigarettes for permitting us to interrupt Avalon time so that the national broadcasting company can bring you a description of the actual running of the Santa Anita Handicap at Santa Anita Park, California. You will now hear Clem McCarthy direct from Santa Anita. One moment, please. We welcome to the network those eastern listeners who have just joined us here at Santa Anita Park in California for the fifth running of the Santa Anita Handicap. The horses are right up there at the starting point, and so I'm going to give you the bare facts about this big race. As you know, it's a mile and a quarter. $100,000 added and the winner will take down $91,100. Now for your information, those of you who are interested in the various post positions, how they will line up, here they are on the inside position to the outside. Two horses starting outside the gate. 14 stalls in the gate and there being 16 horses running, then two of them must start on the outside. Here they are on the inside. Quick devil with Carl Bierman in his saddle. Thanksgiving with Jackie Westrup. He'll fly with Harry Richards. Specified Charlie Corbett in fifth position, Giacola with Moose Peters just in from Florida. Main man with Georgie Wolf. Sartillado, the South American horse with Ralph Neves. Frexo with Freddie Miller. Gosum with Alan Gray. Witch C with Basil James. Crevat with Bobby Robertson. Warminstrel with Mickey Wall. Today, Sylvia Cucci. Melodist with Sammy Renwick. Congressman with Johnny Longdon. And Kayak the second, another South American horse with Johnny Adams. Now then, in regard to the popularity of these horses with the crowd this afternoon, in just the way that they rate with these people who are trying to depict the winner, the most popular horse is the entry of Sartillado and Kayak. These two South American horses own by Charles S. Howard, who also happens to be the owner of Sea Biscuit. And next in popularity to them comes Crevat. Now I would say that about one out of every four people here today, like that South American entry of Kayak and Sartillado, and about one out of every six, like Crevat. And after him, the next in popularity, very close up, is specify then Witch C, then the entry of today and Gosum, and then the others not so popular in the order of their popularity is the main man on Quick Devil, Thanksgiving, Heel Fly, Jack Cola, War Minstrel and Melodist as an entry, Congressman, and the rank outsider is Preck Soul, the French horse owned by Raoul Walsh. Now the horses are up there in their position and they won't be long at the post, I'm pretty sure. Incidentally, this is a great site to stand up here on this roof and look out across this parking space easily the largest parking space of any race course in America, possibly in the world. This is probably the largest parking space for any great sports event. Today, at a quarter after 12, I counted myself a block of a thousand cars out here in the parking space and then I got busy trying to multiply that and I finally wound up with what I thought to be a little short of 20,000 cars at a quarter after 12. Now they were still porting in at half past two and the capacity of the place is supposed to be 22,000 cars. It's jammed right to the gates and over on the far side, the gross value of the race with 16 starters is 137,200. The winner will take down 91,100. The crowd last year was estimated at 63,000. I believe that's official and I know that this crowd today is very close to 70,000. It cost $100 for each of these horses and all the others of the 107 that were entered back in December to get into the race, $100. Then yesterday morning when the horses were named to start it cost them $250 for that privilege. Two of them withdrew and that left 16 that paid an additional $750 to start. The association adds $100,000 to the race and gives the winning trainer $10,000 which brings the whole grand total up to $137,200. Now we're going to talk about those horses stepping into the gate. On the inside there is Quick Devil and next to him is Thanksgiving and there's Heal Fly. There comes Quick Devil into his position. Thanksgiving is not yet in his Heal Fly. He's acting all right. That hood over him I think. Yes, he has the bandage over his eyes. That's the only way he'll walk into his stall gate. Specify has not yet made up his mind to go in. Way on the outside, kayak in the outside position is acting okay. Congressman is next to him. Melodist out there in the outside stall. Specify is way out there behind. War Minstrel just jumped through the gate. All he had to do was stop. Heal Fly, he dived out. He thought he anticipated to start and jumped right out of the gate. Heal Fly just tipped off his rider, Harry Richards. Harry's all right. He's going to get right back in the saddle. Just needs a little help there, boys. Giving him a leg up now. Heal Fly wheeled very fast and caught Harry napping. You know, these modern juckies ride with their stirrups so short. It's remarkable sometimes that a horse doesn't jump right out from under them. They get very little grip with their heels. However, they are the juckies. They have to do the riding so they shouldn't know how to make a difference what his style is. He must be a good race rider. Harry Richards is waiting now out there giving a leg up. He'll be back and Heal Fly is saddled in just a second. Kayak is standing all right in his position. And there is Jacola is all right. She just walked into her stall. Main man is acting very good. Frekso is quiet. Melodist is now cutting up a little on the outside. Kayak is behaving beautifully. Specify doesn't want to go into his stall yet. Waiting patiently on Specify. He has got the... Specify has got the fourth position there. Yes, sir, he's right next to Heal Fly in between Heal Fly and Jacola. Thanksgiving just walked into his stall and tried to walk out, but his jockey stopped him in time. They're all in there now. Everybody except Heal Fly. And Specify that might break any instant. No. Heal Fly doesn't want any part of it yet. He's waiting for Specify to go in his stall. All the other horses are acting like ladies and gentlemen. Yes, there's one lady in here, Jacola. She'll start here recently, but oftentimes a horse needs a race. And with that race under his belt, we'll run much better. Look out, look out, look out. They're all straight, but are they ready? That's up to Eddie Thomas. We can't know. Specify backed out of his stall. He backed out, and which seed jumped out of his stall on the front of his stall and had to go back through. It's now turning to walk up in again. Specify is out. Heal Fly is in there with that bandage over his eyes acting very quietly. Now look out. Specify is walking in. Be careful. Be careful. No, he wouldn't come in. He probably would have had a step at the gate if he had. And Eddie Thomas is not letting any horse take a step at this if he can help it. He can't help it if some jockey is unprepared or the horse himself is standing there flat-footed and can't get away. That's not Eddie's fault. What he's watching for is some quick alert jockey not to take a step at him and beat him away from there. Look out, look out. Look out. No, Specify came in with a rush and then took out again. They've been at the pulse now, roughly speaking. They've been there just four minutes. That's all. Which is not bad for a field of 16 horses. Everybody there is ghostly. He just stepped out of his stall, but that isn't bad. He took a kick at somebody, but missed. So that's okay. Melodists came back in and said, look out. They're all still. Specify had jumped out. If Specify had stood still and I believe we, oh, oh, Melodists went right up like a good old circus horse. Went right up there, high up down his hind legs. That the jockey stayed right on his back and the lead boy is leading him in. Now, Specify has acting for badly that they take him Specify to the outside. They're tired of waiting for him and now Crick Devil is cutting up just to show that nobody has a monopoly on it. Now, Specify is way here on the outside and still cutting up and whirling. Now, we gotta watch Specify here on the outside. All the others will take care of themselves. They gotta get him straight. It's Specify on the extreme outside, outside the geek. No partition, no nothing. Just whirling around there doing as he pleases, acting badly. Well, look out now, uh, uh, uh, no. He just does not want to face this way. Look out, look out. Look out, it might, no. No, Specify retus, look, be careful. No, no. He will not, that's a strange thing about that horse. He will not face in this direction. Whirl and twist, he'll do anything else you want him to but he won't face down here. It seems to want to get a bust at the start. Look out now, no, no, again Specify. Was it false? Watch him, watch him. No, no, Specify would have been as good as left You know, when that bell rings, they're on their way. And look out, now watch, watch him. No, now again, Specify. And which sea jumped out of his stall? Jakola turning around, main man turning. No, now they're already except Specify. Specify, no, there, which sea backed out of his stall that time. He took it the other way. Now look out, if Specify straightens, we're going to leave there. No, boy, you can't do that way. No, no. I read, uh, uh, now watch, watch, watch, no. He just follows that assistant and start around like he was a little bit of a boy. Now he turned him once more, look out. They're off and they're running and the start was okay. Everybody got away except quick devil. On the inside Thanksgiving is stepping right to the front and they're going to come down past here with Thanksgiving, head and head with the leaders. They're coming across past from the outside and about to take the lead. But taking the lead is which sea with Specify coming way over from the outside and running right beside him. And so they passed the stand with which sea in the lead by half a length and Specify is second. Now quick devil is third. Thanksgiving is fourth. Main man has moved up there and taken third place away from the other horse and now as they go round the turn it is which sea slipping away by a length and a half and leading into that turn by a length and a half is Specify is second. Main man is third. Thanksgiving fourth on the inside. Kayak is on the outside in about sixth place way out there. Jakolov is far back and so is Heelfly. Frekso is last. Now they've got three quarters of a mile to come which sea in Specify running neck and neck two lengths ahead of Main man who is two lengths ahead of Kayak and then comes Thanksgiving Sordiato and today moving up past on the outside. Jakola is about eight and congressman is seventh and the rest of them are in behind. Which sea is opened up again now by a length and a half leading have got three half a mile to come now which sea is leading by a length and a half Specify is second by a length and a half Main man is third but two lengths Kayak is fourth by a length and today is fifth. Jakola is down will be up into sixth place and Thanksgiving is seventh and Sordiato is moving up and now Specify is challenging which sea in the middle of the last turn they've got three eighths of a mile six hundred yards five hundred yards to come but Kayak on the outside is making his move into third place and now with a quarter of a mile to come four hundred yards it's Specify by a neck no which sea by a neck and Specify is second. Kayak out in the middle of track challenging third on the inside Main man is in the tight quarters but Kayak on the outside is taking the lead. Kayak is now leading by a length. Kayak is cutting away which sea is hanging on gamely Main man is getting through. Kayak is driving hard and he wins by a length and a half. Kayak which sea second. Main man third Specify fourth today fifth. Jakola is sixth but that's seventh goes from eight. Warn is the ninth. Flexile tenth. The last horse was Melodist and the time of the race was two one and two fifths for the mile and a quarter. Two one and two fifths for the mile and a quarter that mile and a quarter in two one and two fifths is one fifth of a second faster than stage hands wicked last year. Kayak one handily although Adams took no chances rode him out to the last jump. Kayak was the favorite with a crowd and I know you could hear the roar of that crowd that his victory was tremendously popular. Melodist was the last horse to finish he didn't pull up lame or anything else he just got tired the horse back here done saddle. Kayak is way over on the turn there easing up with the lead boy about to take him. The boy the experts who who looked at the race carefully had it right that at 110 pounds Kayak was so in so nicely that if he was as good a horse as his workouts and his races indicated that he would be a very hard horse to beat this afternoon. Now ladies and gentlemen there isn't any doubt about the finish of this race I've given you the result Kayak was first which sea was second and finished third that is how they finished in the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap run here at Santa Anita Park in California. We thank the Brown and Williamson Corporation makers of Avalon cigarettes for giving up a portion of Avalon time so that we could bring you the actual running of the Santa Anita Handicap direct from the racetrack at Santa Anita Park California. We return you now to the Avalon time program at Cincinnati. This is Del King saying welcome back to Avalon time. Now in just a moment Phil Davis and his boys will beat out pagan love song but first a very important announcement next Saturday Avalon time will come to you at a new time 8 30 p.m. eastern standard time and 7 30 central standard time we hope that you'll be with us. Okay Phil beat out a bit of pagan new pagan Try one of these cigarettes. What kind are they? 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Ask for Avalon cigarettes Well friends that's about all the time we have now but remember when you ask for Avalon cigarettes Don't forget to change Yes Avalon cigarettes difference cost several cents less than others you too can save this difference like all of us Avalon brothers each pack is wrapped in cellophane each pack is union made no wonder folks from coast to coast say Avalons lead the parade Your attention please. Remember next Saturday evening the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation will present Avalon time at a new time 8 30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time 7 30 p.m. Central Standard Time. Del King speaking. Good night everybody. Avalon time originated in the studios of the nation station and has reached you through the national broadcasting company w e a f New York the national broadcasting company presents lives of great men a new series on great leaders in human progress presented by Dr. Edward Howard Griggs distinguished lecture critic and author of the soul of democracy and many other books in his talks Dr. Griggs is building a story of civilization based on outstanding characters through the ages and how each one influences his own in future times this evening Dr. Griggs will discuss Carlisle the man of letters as prophet