St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-31

saw my friend with snug little pile of |
Montana tickets in his hand. How /,
came he to get 'em? Listen to this, and |
weep, We experts, and say there's moth i
ing in sheer luck.
"l'll tell you how said he, 1 ran
my eye over the names of the horses
that were to start and l found that
three Of them had as many letters
seventh their names as there are In
mine. They were Russell. Pessara and
Montana. l decided to take one of
them for that reason, but for quite.
while | couldn't make up my mind
which one of the three to take. L
finally chose Montana, simply because
the animal not only had seven letters In
his name like | have, but my name, like
his, began with an NJ
But that" continued the Old-timer,
may be considered studied luck. Here
is an instance of luck that is enough to
make an expert commit suicide. A
friend of mine from New York was i'll
the pool rooms one night before the
races of the Nashville BloodhOrse aSSO-
citation. He had never seen a race be-
fore in his life, but as his friends were
putting up their money on their favor
| ties he thought he'd do the same. In
one of the auction pools he bid along
up to $40. and horse he chose
| the seventh down from the first choice
| was knocked down TO him. On get
ting the card he exclaimed That's not
| the horse wanted But the card was
made out and lie had to take it. Fact
is, two or three of the owners of horses
on the list were 'colonelS,' and the New
| Yorker got the colonies mixed up.
| However, the horse he did want was
Col. Hardinge's, and he was de-
lighted because he afterward got
him for S35-just IS less than he
had to pay for what he did not want.
There was S645 in the pool and that
| greenhorn of a New Yorker Sc0oped 1t
all in the next day. How? Why, the
very horse that he didn't want but had
to take because he had made a mistake
in the bidding won the race. As for
| the horse he did want but did not get he
was not in it at all. He lost S35 on his
good Judgment and paid $40 against
his will, which brought him in. deduct
ing the $40 and the $50, profit of s57o.
'.Plunger Walton, by the way" con-
tinued the old-timer, "tels good one
on himself. In 1888; when he was
sp.unging' at Long Branch, he was
bored to death by young man who
wanted a tip The fellow followed
the plunger from one bOokkeeper' S
stand to another and tried to hear
what Walton whispered as he jotted
down his choices in his little
diary. Walton finally got very tired.
Turning upon his besieger one day. he
exclaimed. Look here, my dear boy, DC
YOU want to make pile OF money?
The young man, like Mrs. Fezzlng
whom Dickens portrays, became one
vast substantial smile. When you gel
a chance today said Walton to lis eager
listener, put in all you can in thu
Erauci, poOiS on GIrOfia.'
..Well, Girofia was a plug, and Wal
toms idea was to have the young mar
clustered for logging him all the time
Then he proposed to give him enough
money to get back to New York, any
however to return, he hoped.
"Now, imagine Walton'S surprise
after Girofla had been beaten by a fur
long in the race. to find that young mai
! dancing with delight at the West Ent
hotel. When he saw Walton lie seizet
him bv the two hands and fairly yelled
, | .I'il never forget you as long as l live
/ won big pile, thanks to you wal
ton was dumfOunded.
5 ".You took the horse l told you
> didn't you?' Walton asked.
81 did,
r".And you say you made pile"
~ did, bought ten French poe
). tickets, and each brought me $780,
. | - - "A SuQuen SuSpiCiOll ChiiiC dCIooo Vii
plunger's mind. Look here he eA
!, claimed, what's the name of the hors
), you took|
y ...Girotle' was the reply.
i l.. Spell it, yelled Walton. The your
Imam did. May be blown into smitlel
! | ems muttered Walton, as he turne
y y away, the man who is born to be hange
= | Sill never be drowned
The fact is, the greenhorn didn
know that there was d Grotie as we'll
e a Girotia running that day and in diife
:, ent races. Girotie ran i'll race loa
II before Girotia. so he took the horse til
minute he saw the name. AS near &
!. his memory served him. that was tn
% horse Walton had advised him to taxi
u Luck can do anything" sail the Ok
: timer: "hut. after all, there's somcihin
in good Judgment or we experts woui
:; be tending peanut stands on tile stree
n corners for Il living.
l. Not W hat .,e anted.
L, Artist-Yes. sir; / can enlarge III
y. photograph aid give you speakii
rs | likeness.
as Widower (whose knowledge of a
, terms is limited. but whe has Il ve'
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