Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-01-03
JEROME |. CASE.
HOW THE MILLIONAIRE BREEDER BACKED
HIS HORSES on THE TURF.
General John Turner and lis Little Trap WIZ
Trinka-Sone Of the Work Of Gov Sprsgus'
Case Was As Last Of His School
Of furfnen.

"Jerome I. Case, the Racine miiliop.
aire, was possibly the last OF scnooi
OF turfmen OF which Alden Goldsmi.n
may have been the first" said al Ola
trotting- horse follower to the chicago
| Times. II mean that when Mr.. Cod
smith first showed up the boys took nun
for a pigeon easy TO pluck, and their
delight was the greater at finding fresh
material for a delectable meal, when the
fact was known that the newcomer was
deacon in the church. But events
proved that man might profess Chris
| tianity even and still De even more than
a match for men OF inferior intellect,
! no matter how smart In the ways OF
/ the world. have often heard IL SAID
| that the first time Mr.. Case ever got
ready TO turn loose 4 good horse was
| down at some small meeting in lliiRols.
! In the auction pools his trotter sold Tor
| a mere nothing, cash A-the initial TEL
| lows, Sunday school scholars, FRANK
! Hardic used to call them, because they
I would not give their names when ouy-
/ ing a pool ticket-being the sole buyers
But when Mr.. Cases horse won IN
4 straight heats IL was discovered that
the gentleman owner had sent down
from Racine TO buy the pool tickets
| few OF his men whose general vocation
told only of an ability TO shove jack
plane or run a thrashlDg machine.
However this may be, IL was when
he owned Gov. Sprague that Mr.. Cases
real ability cropped out. Gov. Sprague
had a cinch on his class clear through
| the grand circuit and the gambling was
confined 10 the play for second money.
! III | rember rightly, the race in question
came up at Poughkeepsle. and Irene
and Mambrino Kate were the horses In
the betting The first named was
| the better animal and could
outliye the other; so Irene sold
| fayorite against the field, with GOV.
| Sprague barred. The money OF the
.'talent" poured in on Irene soon brought
the quotation; Irene $50, field sos. so
the owner OF the favorite concluded TO
let Mambrlno Kate beat Irene the hrst
heat to brace up the betting.
"Well, as Gov. Sprague and Nam
brine Kate were trotting head and head
10 the wire what should happen but
Mr.. Cases horse made an unfortunate
| fP) break, and so gave Mambrino Kate
| the heat and second money sure II Gov.
Hill won the next three heats. Try as
she might Irene had no chance to win
! heat. And after this race Mr.. Cases
agents collected the money.
"The greatest throw down ever sus-
tanned by j. |. Case was when Trinket
heat Phallas In match at Rochester.
Phallas had been the phenomenal pre-
former OF the year and Trinket was the
only animal fit 10 compete with him, al
though she hadn't won heat down the
! line. So the Rochester folks gave
special $4,000 added for Phailas and
Trlnket. John L. Turner had been
troting Trinket through the Michigan
circuit in the free for all, and Charley
Ford, who was always the favorte In
| this race, had been knocked down
whenever il was the game to beat him
! by Wedgewood and other horses. The
boys had sure thing buying the field
against Charley Ford, II being well
| known by the select few that should II
become necessary all Turner need TO do
was TO turn loose Trinkets head, for
| she was better than ever In her life.
| But such stage never having come up,
| here was Trinket way dowR to Roches-
ter lust one of the has beens' and mere
| ly by reason Of her 'c'ass' TO trot a
special with the great Phallas. "Pie!'
| calculated the sure-thingers (there
were always host Of such men
along the trotting circuit TO
whom the % TO stage was the
acme of all speculation and pie was
The echo everywhere. Mr.. Case was
about to give an order for $4,000 worth
of Phallas to Bride & Armstrong, when
up walked Turner, and. calling him
aside, whispered, as he slipped $500
into his hand: Put this on with yours.
So Mr.. Case gave larger order than he
had contemplated doing. Now, there
was another bookseller on the track
Herdic by name-and to this gentleman
came Mr.. Turner's confidential man
with a note which said: Play Trinket
for me- You can imagine how the
pool-selling went.
There was Billy Armstrong right
under Herdic's wing with his $50 for
Phalas, and cunning Mr. Herdic ha-
raDguing the crowd for buyer for
Trinket and then gradually dropping
of a dollar or so or the mares price,
and later dropping the ticket into the
pIoeon hole alongside Mr.. Turner's
other tickets. The odds finally landed
al so 10 20 on PhalIas. The first heat
was trotted and was won by Trlnket 10
about 900. Blther, behind Phallas,
was seen to be giving the stallion an
easy heat. Just little more time 10
get on the money sang the supposedly
smart ones. and bang they went at II
again, and Phallas sold greater favor
tie than ever, and Jim McCrea, Herdie's
cashier, had TO use a second pigeon hole
to store all Of Mr.. Turner's Trlnket
tickets.
Sat the head OF the hor&estretch for
the second heat Phallas cOllared the
mare. It's all over sang the sure
thingers. Then they began TO rub their
eyes, for, sight as they would, and Sec
ling Bither hard at work on bis horse,
they could see no Pballas coming TO the
front, but only John Il. Turner, sitting
as still as a statue behind his beautiful
mare, as she, with clockwork stride,
nearereani nearer approached the wire.
Tricket won easy, and then what tnr-
mo!ll Turner's mare was al once In
stalled the fayorite, and when the cat
was let out Of the bag any price
was too high for Phallas. The stallion
wasn't dead by any means, and made
Trinkett trot the third heat, but the
mare won In 2:l6H, the second heat
having been trotted around 2:l5. And
possibly the dead millionaire laughed
thousand times during bis life at the In
eenuity OF the man from Philadelphia
who baited his trap with $500 note.
Mr. Case was not an extremely popular
man among turfmen, as poverty II AZ
WAYS ready to cry out against the capi-