The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-08-07

and greasy money from the wives and
daughters of plain people in the tier
below. to be exchanged for the little
colored tickets covered with cabalistic
figures.
To . stranger at the races oil seems
excitement. tumble and confusion.
When q large number of horses are
racing the colors intermingle and
change with the rapidity of . revolv.
ing kaleidoscope. It ID impossible for
any but . trained eye to follow and
separate them. Even old rsce-goes
often ask at the reporters stand which
horses secured places. The crowd IL
also o puzzle to q stranger. He
watches it move and change, and
surge, without apparent sense Or res.
son. At the finish of each race there
is . sudden disappearance of Thousands
from the stands the great enclosure
fronting the quarter-stretch, and the
field. Some have gone to the paddock
to see in what condition the horses
have come in from their great strug-
giles, in order to store up points for
future betting and gain information
for the next race others have hur-
ried to the betting quarters TO get
their winnings or to make fresh invest
ments, while many swarm around the
bars to drink to their good luck or
drown their i'll fortune. When the
final bell summons the horses 10 the
post for another race the crowd surges
back again. selling on every available
point of the observation.
That keen-eyed, wiry veteran who
is making his way rapidly through
the crush is bound to gain a position
from which he can see every foot OF
the race, even if he has to roost on
the back of a reporters chair. He has
q horse 10 the race, and has bet thou
sands of dollars ON the result. He
watches every move of the races with
breathless interest with the aid of q
powerful glass. for a man whom he
hates worse than poison has bet against
him through an agent. The wiry
man is Bookmaker Kelly, who fought
the Plunger SO energetically last cum
mer.
The stout man in q blue suit. wear
ing a white hat as round IS a Dutch
mans, under which bis flushed face
has a restless, uneasy look. is mer.
chant who a few years ago became i'm
bued with the spirit of gambling on
horses. He adopted the Plunger tao
tics, and in a quieter way oct nearly
as much money. Passing q book
maker not long ago who was shouting
just before the race, "Ill bet $4,000
to $5, 900 on Eole, he took the offer.
Eole lost. The man is named Der
nard.
A tall, neat, blue-eyed man, who
needs no chair to give him q view Of
the running horses, watches them
while carrying thousands Of dollar
of his money a. coolly az if he had
wagered glass of wine only on the
result. He is equally Is cool Will,
specializing in Wall street. at faro
draw poker or any other game o
chance. He is known a. Al Smith
Those two slim, erect, neatly dress
ed, unObtrusive men, always one ant
inseparable at the race course, have il
the past four years, won more money
in stakes, purses, sweepstakes ant
bets than any other horsemen in Amer
ca. Win or loose they always wea
the same calm demeanor, and No one
ever knows how much they art ou
or in. They are keen, critical observer
of horse race, and are often seen il
the Judges or timers box. They ar
the Dryer brothers.
That clear-eyed man who drags on
leg behind him, and who, with hi
stout, hearty wife, bets freely OF
the races, is the owner Of the fines
string of steeplechasers in the country
He began his racing career with ON
horse, to psy for which he had hare
scramble. He is at present a ricl
man. His name is W. G. DAILY.
That handsome, compactly bull
Irishman. with complexion cleare
than Lapgtry's, beautiful black curly
hair, and eyes tina, shine like brilliants
hurrying through the press with ,
handkerchief tied across his shirt from
to hide costly diamond, is a livel,
better. He began sporting life at pc
destrian matches. His name i
O'Rourke.
The handsome gentleman with sleel
moustaches, glossy hair and Chester
fieldian manners, who comes on from
the west to try his luck at the races
and is hail fellow we'll met with Billy
Conner, Tom Ochiltree and othe
clever club men, is known among thu
bows as Egg johnson. He is a goot
;udua of horses. He ran for lieuten