The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-17

Owning and racing horses is adjudged
upon all sides to be costly luxury.
Who sweeps in the coin, then? Is it the
bool1maker on the track? Ask any one
of them and he will tell you that he
counts himself fortunate indeed if he
comes back to town with thousand OF
two. The hundred dollars day he has
to pay to the association for the priv
ilege of hanging up his single in the
betting ring at the track and the keen
rivalry of his brother bookmalsers keep
him guessing as to how he will meet his
obligations.
AT last we have it. 1t must be the
city poolroom keeper who catches the
nimble dollar as it wings its silvery
fight across the equine armament.
Here, again, we are disappointed. The
poolroom keeper, if he is friend and
confdes In you, will whisper in your
ear that his lot is the hardest of all.
First, the landlord insists upon six
times the rent he would get from any
other tenant, and then - here the
whisper becomes less audible and more
tragic in its intensity-the police must
be cared for. Without protection" the
poolroom keeper can do no business.
To crown his misfortunes- he will add,
the officers of a certain society, founded
for the purposes of social regeneration,
insist upon their ''bit," and he must
"give up" or seek for pastures new.
With a sigh he concludes by saying that
he counts himself lucky to have the
wherewith to pay rent and buy bread
for his family.
Whose capacious paw, then, grasps and
holds the 'long green?" Is it the high
priced jockey? Some of these midget
monarchs, know, make all the way
from $4,000 to 81, 900 upon their sea-
sons mounts. Here, agoin, we are at
sea. With the exception of dashing
Fred Taral none of them has any money
to speak of. A brief Investigation,
however, shows the reason for this.
With the exception of Taral they all
back their mounts or some other fol-
lows mounts. Snapper" Garrison,
the demon rider" of the American
turf, is as daring better on limited
scale as the marquis of Hastings or
"Plunger" Walton Although his earn
ings yearly approach, SIS, 900, he is
plum broke" Lately, how
ever, he has wooed successfully that
tickle jade fortune. and Is about $40, 900
TO the good. Will Snapper" continue
to hold her smiles?
Fred Taral has, however, q beautiful
mansion at One hundred and Twenty
sixth street and Lenox avenue, for
which he paid s27, 900 in cash. Hespent
$40 900 in furnishing and fitting it up,
going so far even as to construct a hand
some Turkish bath
Jere Dunn, famous the world over as
a horseman and all around sport. stout
ly AYERS that the owner of nags does
not by long shot capture the money
that is lying around loose. Jere has
had stables of trotters and runners and
once with his trim little mare Village
Maid made SAC, 900 off thousand-dollar
The mare was 10 to 1
shot, and hardly anybody but Jere
thought well enough Of her to place a
dollar on her chances.
''Horse owners said Jere 10 me,
don't make the tons of gold people
seem to think they do. Rich men Hike
Mr. Belmont and Mr.. Lorillard had
stables, yet in the last few
years had such hard luck that they de-
.ided to sell out. Fred Gerhard, too,
who is young Cresus, could not stand |
the pace. even with such a splendid |
horse as Eole in his stable, and he, too,
IL oil
but the majority do not. They
race simply out Of love of sport"
WILLIAM STANDrsH HAYES.