Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-09
PLUNGER WALTON
Makes the Book Makers Sick by
Scooping In $75,0 600.
THE MONEY WON AT MONMOUTH PARK
The Way the Gay Sport Celebrated the
Great National HoIday-Twenty-
Five Thousand Dollars Won
On Private Bets.

New YORK, July S.-The sporting frater-
nifty found a cooling subject of discussion
last evening in eonfding to one another
Just what they would do if fair fortune
would only smile upon them as it had
upon "Plunger" Walton, who won $4,000
on July 4.
At Johnson's, in Twenty-seventh street,
the patrons entered their bets, with their
minds eye picturing a sum we'll up in the
thousands as among the possibilities if a
man is both judicious and careful.
At the Brewer House the "boys' won
dered how it was that their judgment had
bean 30 faulty when sucn glorious oppors
tunities had offered themselves.
I"Why," said one gentleman, as he mop
ped the perspiration from his forehead with
huge handkerchief, here we have men
in New York who for the past twenty years
have made horses, jockeys, tracks and
Buying Pools n Study.
yet they are left-left, say-with their
shekels gone. 1t is beyond the compre.
hension of the fraternity, and unless some
sport is sufficiently fly TO observe the state
and condition OF the moon and stars the
night before Walton visits the track il will
ever remain moral impossibility for the
average man to make an honest dollar in
speculation. Give US drink"
AT the Turf Exchange about forty wilted
men wrote down the names Of the horses TO
start at the Monmouth Park races 10 day.
In the third list under the head OF the
Lorillard Stakes the name of Pizarro ap-
peared. Each man sighed as he pencilled
the name, and while a corpulent gentleman
with red face mutiered: There's where
lost 81 400" slim man with a sallow,
Consumptive expression, standing near gave
The responsive echo "and there is where
the Plunger scooped in $1,000
Bad for the Book.Makers.
To the book makers Walton's extraord-
mary winnings Of $4,000 proved disas-
trous. Many started away from their
Lotels in the morning feeling assured that
as it VAS the Fourth their profits would
resch handsome figure.
Henry Stedecker said to reporter OF
he World last night: walton has had
more han average success since the open
ing Ct the racing season. He left Sleeps
bead Bay considerably ahead and has con.
tinupd his successful betting since the
opening OF Monmouth Park. He made
the biggest haul by his bets on Pizarro.
VIXEN be came TO the track Fourth OF July
morning he let the book makers catch him
for couple hundred and then he was pre-.
pared 10
Make Some Money.
Al our bets were three to one, and, after
he had succeeded in arranging matters with
fifteen or twenty book. makers, he quietly
withdrew to await developments.
After the third race he as quietly re-
turned and drew in the aggregate $50, 900
winnings on the LOrillard horse. He stag
gered the boys on his first haul, but when
he followed it up by getting the winner
in the fourth and fifth races, the book
makers looked Gghast, and MeaDey was
obliged TO close up business and leave the
track after paving his obligations. Oh, It
was bad day for book makers, and your
humble servant feels it to the extent OF SO,
600. PiGarro Monitor and Nimrod won
for Walton the biggest sum made by one
man this year
His Private Bets.
'If Walton won $4,000 on straight bets
against the book makers sa,i we'll
known hotel man. IL know OF two private
bets-one OF $lj.u and The other OF $1,000
which he has won. You can make no
mistake about it. When the Piunger
wins he wins a heap, but somehow or other
he is the only lucky man on the day that
he wins. Almost all the gamblers and pro.
Fourth, and il is safe to presume that
good portion of it found its way into the
pockets Of The piunger.'
-Four men stood before the bar at the
Hoffman House last night. one was en-.
gagged stirring claret punch and looking
roiieCtivCly ~ the little piece Of floating
ice as it alterna,rd with the spoon in tink-
ling against the side Of the glass. The other
three men v, re tearing into minute pieces
little tickets, some Of which bore in red
letters, Place, a'.i other different char
acters. yet all resembling ferry tickets but
for .he color.
Just Ny LucE,''
said one Of the g-oup II hai present.
mcut that il | stuck L. Walton on the
Fourth ] would s'Iike luck. / Oueurd with
a less Of 800 in company wiR Walton,
ard thinking that III. Judgment vas poor
for holidays struck out for myself. Re-
suit, m busted, AID he's In seventy
fvcr." Tlr man threw his scraps ~ paper
.pitsfulIv On the floor and seized his
luuch.
He bears my time" said the man with
tie spoon in his hand. Il went away
from here with a cool twenty four hun
GrCd right in there" rappiDg his trDU,ers
poCket. "I began by dropping 2nJ cases
on The first race, and before took drop
NY money was all gone, ex"rr''ng jHit
enough to set 'cm UP for the byyS and 10
get back home
Walton has had little II anything to say
concerning his luck. His sUcccss does not
pun him up q hit, and when spoken TO yes.
irrGav he replied that successful betting
was not the result OF careful study or in
tcllectual a;tainments, but OF reckless IN.
diference. a man who bets 500 and
then stops because he hasn't won will
,is, han