Passing of Joe Kruger

[Lou]

I can remember when I was a kid in the 60s, my dad would turn the radio onto
WHIL every night at 5:00pm to hear the race results and, "the number."  It
usually meant tuning away from WMEX, a very unpopular thing to do at our
house.

-Lou


-----Original Message-----
From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org
[mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of
Kevin Vahey
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 12:23 AM

I met him years ago and he told me that what kept WHIL-AM alive was an
arrangement with the people who ran bookmaking in New England.

Everyday he would air a half hour show with the race results from
Suffolk, Rockingham or the Providence tracks and every bookie within
50 miles would listen. At the end of the show they would also announce
the 4 digit mutual number that was used as an illegal lottery.