The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-08-05
ANOTHER CROOKED DRIVER.

A Doubtful Protest From an Esteemed
Contemporary.
SAYS the Breeders Gazette:
Down il Ohio there is a driver named
HendershOt who made quite name for
himself last season by driving the PAGER
Subscriber to record trifie below
2:2O. Success seems to Lave altected
Mr.. Hendershot in an unfaVoraDle man
ner, as he was not long ago caught III
an attempt to perpetrate piece or
crooked work at the Mansfield track
and was lucky to get away with hne OF
$50 Hendershots PAGER was a natural
faVOrite in q race,at Mansfield, but as the
parties who had the chestnut gelolng
Paul were anxious for thai horse to
win, they succeeded in fixing up a job
with Hendershot, whereby his horse
was to be beaten, the Gov. SpraSue geld
ing Charlie p, very fast animal for a
mile dash, being selected to win the
O,,ening heat, after which Paul was to
90 on and take inLo camp the puDilc
which had backed Subscriber before the
race, and would naturally do great
deal of hedging Oh Charlie T., after that
horse had won a heat. The scheme
worked very nicely N its early stages,
Charlie p. winning the first heat IN
2:2351 and Paul the second in 2:22Z. IL
is possible that owing 10 Hendershots )
previous good reputation he ana ms
partners would have been able 10
mt the lob through had he not been so
anxious in the second heat to give
Charlie 7. the pole that he pulled cut
and let that horse take the inside posi-
tion from behind. The judges took note
of this fact, and when the hoTS9s SJ came iaaI,
out for the third heat removed Mr.. Hen
dershot from the sulky, putting up
Willis Laird, whom they knew TO be
honest. Under his guidance Subscriber
began winning. ana as soon as ahalrS tooS
this turn Hendershot played the calf
nf fn16 hel in6R1S whOlG V,
begging for immunity from serious
punishment. 1t was probably III cone
sideration of his turning states evidence
that he was fined only $50, Lard DelnS
paid 500 out of the money won by Sub
scriber for driving that horse to victory.
AS the matter now stands Hendershotls Is
a self-confesSed and double-conVlcted
trotting-turf crook, and the 1act thaI
wheE the pinch came he squealed ike n
yellow dog and was only too anxious 10
inform on his companions Will lower
rather than raise him in the estimation
of all mankind. 1t is bad enough to be
a iobber and crook, but to also become
squealer is enough to mark man SO
that any person of Ofrespectable parcntage
is justified in giving such an Individual
a wide berth,
Our esteemed contemporary seems
to lay more stress on the fact that
HeuderskUt was a "Squealer," as IL
calls him, and should be given "a
wide berth" on that account, than on
the fact that he was a jObber. Now
there was 40 moral turpitude what
ever in HendershOt telling OF the job
it does not enter into the thing at all.
We are glad he told, and wish al! OF
them would, so they could the sooner
be spotted. The last paragraph above,
il you will cad it again, looks as ii
the Breeders Gazette was huntin
around, not to try to avoid the job
hers. but to find ono, who, after fixing
a race, would Justify "a person OF re-
spectacle parentage" in still holding
communion with him. And that re-
mind- us Of our old Uncle Sam, OF
colored memory, who once informed
us with great seriousness, that, "it
aint no sin to steal q waCermilliOn
but it's jess dreiful to be cotched at
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