Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-10-08
HOW THE PLUNGERs FARED.
Men Who Won and Men who Lost on
the Races This Year.

she Races This Year.
SOME pAvY JOHNSON WENT BRoKE-MIcHAEL
| DwYERs LUcK-Jog ULLMANs LIVELY HOUND
| FEW LUCKY ONES
| From the N. Y. Sun. Sunday
As the racing season draws near its completion
the query "who has won all the money this year.r
Is nearu on all sides. Last year this question
would have been considered supernous as there
were dozens OF fortunate individuals who had won
thousands OF dolllrs on backing their Judgment
| regarding the best horse In a race. This year
Things are changed, and followers of the race
| horses nave become timid, and, in many instances
oanArupted through the Inconsistent perform nces
| OF almost every horse on the turf In fact. the
year 1883 VIII long be remembered as one In
| which more than one plunger met his Waterloo
| IdKing the season from Washington last spring
~ 10 tne present meeting at Gravesend noJn-
ties That followed day after day can be recalled
| oy the Oldest Facing men IN America
heavy loser at Washington last spring. but got it
| nearly all back at Jerome Park. AT Gravesend
ne won some $50 only to drop good lot OF IL at
Sneep ,nedu Bay. linen came the direrul season at
| Monmouth PARK, aud, IN company with thousands
OF Others. pnii lost, and lost heavily although no
Al the close OF the Monmouth Parx meeIInS Phi
sad 10 tue writer; Elm glad this season at Long
Is over Eve i've had Inc wors. run OF uek
dropped more II l hadn't realIzed In time tnat
the game could not be beaten the
two or three weeks i've merely chopped my
Way along. never losing more tn N $500 day, but
ioi an enaI tne oooAmdkers got over $50 900 OF
tnelr money oack." During the early part OF the
meeting at Monmouth Phi aud his brother lived
AZ The West End at Long Branch, out the last lew
weeks or the saratoga Races attracted his atlen-
tloh, and, as III norses appeared to We running
more consistently at the Springs than elSew nere
he came 10 New York and played the Saratoga
1 -rfhD, Nm t.slIn IN
Broadway and 2SLn street. He won bac~ good
deai OF the money he had lost at Monmouth, dad
uegan the season a. Sheepsheai ABOUT $1,000 De-
MUD Tue game. Since then he la, nad Il far run
OF luck, ana Is PROBABLY d small winner; but he
NOWHERE within ndllins dis .ance or MS years
! winnings, which at TINS time looted up $4,000.
, Davy Jonnson's Career TINS year ousn, 70 serve
| as warning 10 those who are Ambitious TO make
mlIlion' where SO many uliiions nave been sunh
Oy men just as Snrewd as Liey are One year ago
Ddvy Jounson was i member o. the bookmak. ny
nrm Vi AppieDy Johnson, and was said to DC
| worth anywhere from $50 OOO " 500 900; but the
AuOnlS OF the layer Oh uuis would play horses,
not content VITA his commission III MS legitimate
| business, and, as result, lie dropped all DlS
| n0Ley and separated from nls ror.ier GARNER, Mr.
| Luclen y. Appeoy. A race-horse Called Bradford,
owned Dy AppieUy & johnson, was the nedIu Ii OF
DAvy's wildcat piunses, and Is lie InvariaDiy lost
| when III, Part ownrr Was on him 10 WIN many
thouSdnds IL Was not long before the brow OF
handsome Davy became clouded, and IL was Wills
pered about the ring tnat he was In trouble
An eAample OF Jounson's piungins proc.ivi-
Ties is IuII he bet $4,000 ON BRADFORD at Mon
! mouth PARK last Aue us,. Bradford wasn't
nrsS or second, and his conIreres smiled as they
Faxed In his money. Tristan cost JoniIson d lot
or money, and following Wild aud reckless Tip, de-
pleted his capital mucn more, IL being d cvnilnun
occurrence IOr nIm 10 oct thousands on a horse on
which he mad received Information, no matter now
| Enthusiastically tine source might be. THIS style OF
gJing naturally brought the young man up with a
! sharp urn. Inc Partnership between Me,srS. Ap-
pieby Johnson Was dissolved, and rumor went
the rounds that handsome Davy, the once llgnJ-
! hearted snouter or ODDS, was broke. In the days
when JACK OF Hearts Was one or the best horses In
| training, Davy won pots or money. ON one occa.
| sion, when lnat morse beat LouisetJe for tue re-
newal OF The Twin City Handicap at Sleepsnead
Bay, III, winnings were placed at So, O0O out
/ ua.eS are Chang II now. Nj. joan ,Oa Is making a
| book at Gravesend Ia MS own ndlne.
/ Michael Dwyer, the younger OF the famous
DWyer Drothcro, used To be the heaviest better on
the turf, DIT repeated sldps In the face by tickle,
ioreune nSve made nun extremely clary OF how he
handles The racing tiger that Is lar more fierce and
| lreacherouS IMAM that winch presides over the
green oaHe. Faro Is SOU re gam, III Comparison
Win horse racing as IT mas Deen conducted LniS
Sedson, and Mr.. Owyer, in common Win the other
piuAgers, Can bear witness the truth or that
| statement. Mr.. Dwyer'5 bets were daring but
they were mainly confined " the horses IN his ow
stable, and his losses on outside racers would b..
mere oaSaleile In comparison 10 tuOse Hanover,
! Tray, Inspector b., Joe Cot. on, anu others OF
| his own stable that have proved shifIless at the
/ most OppOrtune moment. He backed Hanover
very heaviIy Tor the Brooklyn Handicap only 10
see The Bard finish in front OF his great colt Sir
Dixon, Later On, Was the medium OF neavy plunges
Dut ne, too was Disappointing, Ueing beaten Dy
| Taragon Tor the Omnibus sJahes az Monmouth,
and 0y Prince Royal Tor The COney Island Derby
| On those OCCASIONS the Dwycr colt Was looked up-
| on as an almost certain winner Kingston was
| supported 10 beat Tht Bard, and later ON Mr.
Dryer planked down MS ducaJS On the brown colt
| the caplcious maws or tae boOHnakers eng dired
MS money and gaped for more. oregon Carried "a
| the Junior Champion contest, and the big
CHESTNUT, on watch he lad paced sucn
aspenoen nsDao was smG nanH in The ruck
Ever since the Dryers went into racing their
stable mas been pnenominalIy successful until
| tais year, When tneir red and blue colOrs nave
been seen but seldom on the turf; that Is seldom
In comparison win Ioriner years, when they mad
a representative In almost every Face, and fre-
queAtly won them ali. But, as In everything el e,
LUCK or some combination OF circun,tl noes uich
Is commonly known as Iuch, wIil turI, AID tue
DWyerS are now having a sip VI bitterness after
long ufauSnt OF all That Is sweet In horse-raciug.
IL - inEooslpe TO estimate All. Dryers losses, but
ne Is said To be behind on TIE season.
Joe Uiiinan, the lOrmer owner or Raceland, Is an
example oI tue typical betting man. The good
n.ttured Joe may be and mas been Nat on his
uppeis III the early sprins only TO bob up sereneiy
Win s|o,OOO or $lOO,OO0 III the Iil. He iii not
Strike u very sol. spoL 1T Washington BlIumore
last sprias, and came 10 jerome Park pretty low
Ia uuances, Out with determination 10 make a
stake or 20 broke in the tempt. Before I..e end
u Inc Coney Island Jockey Cluo spring meeting at
Saeepsnead bay he was ST., 900 ON the rlgnt SIDE
or Tue book. but Iceiy Two weeks OF Ine
monmouth Park meeting had elapsed before Joe'S
sturdy form Was one VI the most Iainiliar Ia the
paddocA III search VI a copper-oound tip,
and It was whispered ABOUT mat Tue
gentleman from ST Louis was on TIE
n2slic. When tne Western horses came down
from saratoga, Joe Was among the first 10 get a
line on tAen, and he won nauUlly over Little
Mach, Esmont, Lo.tie Wall, Proctor KuoLt and
hypocriOe, aud quit the meeting with a snug sum.
he won $4,000 ON Uniqu, Tie day he beat st.
valentine ~ SAeepohead Bay. The Western uorses
met Win defeat IN great many instances and as
Joe's nsure ornamenled The paddock pretty fire.
"a -ntiS, IL may b. taken i certainty InlJ ne
mas not made more monay than he can carry ABOUT
MS person without DecOm ny rounu-snouldered
Rooert tucker, the young Kentucky horseInan
Who controis Tue services OF the crack jockey
Barnes, and VINO owns several race horses, cam,
down from Saratoga In Company with W. Y. Scuiiy
owner oi LotLie Wall. aDou tnTee weeas before the
close VI The Monmouth son, bringing villa lh.,n
Milton founy's nily hypOcrite, ant Lottie Wall
They nau the pair On edge and they Captured race
AFTER race, and always with good ODDS AGAINST
| them, and lef. for the Lou1,viile meeting a Week
ago Win 49, 600 apiece net result OF their So
lourn In tl.S vicinity. Bookmaker Mahoney b:ne-
nteu CONSIDERABLY Dy their experience anu won
ncaVily ovef tne two racers mentioned, several
Times holding them out in his BOOK and bagg NJ
aA tue money That came IN ON The Others. nan
kinS anu Campbell or the chicago stable, had q
soou run or luck at Monmouth Park, and won
| heavily over Lille Minch, EgmonJ, and Tudor;
Dut curing the Sheepsneai Bay meeting Terra
GOTTA, Wheeler l., and Leila May tailed TO win
| wneL heavily backed, and Egmont, their best
MORSE Went wrong when he was at his best and
capable OF giving even Firenz q race for a mile.
| Iney nave, of course, won heavily In stakes and
purses, as tney are tine phenomenal stable OF the
year, Just as h0nigs Was last season and The
| D"yers lor year after year, but principally when
Iuey swept the turf with MISS WOOdIOrd. George