Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-09-02

Morrlaey'a days would have termed gilt
Olgpd. He Is. 20 ugo the ycrnacular Of tho
betting RUS, sand all tho way through,
lin iuay send $40 900 Into the betting ring at
tluo n he thinks he has good THUS
and no one save hla ho0kmaltorg may hear
OF Il, Ito maltoH 5000 bets now ana then,
aud $1,000 bets stIll oftonor. Aud II " said
VI him that no loses aa oiten az no Wins
or oyOn oflpnpr
Another game ho,tor ia waicot,. OF the
hrm Of Walcott A Campbell lie Ia also
sandy" He has rood deal OF money.
most Of which no made In Wall street. aud
hn Ia not AFRAID TO spend IT, iio follows tho
example OF tho pwyora In that he backs
| Ms own personal judgment instead Of that
OF iookoya or trainers, and he viii back that
I Judgment literally at any time Ills favor
Ito bet 10 $1,000. and he runs from that
up to 5000, hiq usual limit,
piorro Lorllard ~ a. game aH q pebble
when ho 10 betting though he Ia not d
''plunR'' To tho uxont that tho DWyoiu and
otheiu are, 10 viii not hesitate at putting
NV 10000 at timo, hut he must have d
good reason for 30 doing. lilo docs hls bot.
tint through third party. and IL Is dif,
ncult matter to tell whom DO wins or loses.
laho u all In all, tho turf has perhaps cost
him more money than Il hha any other man
Ia the bualpeas ms English ventures cost
him pllp Of money though % bo sure
tho old brown hero. Parole, won hlgh prizes
OF an honorary port Tor hia owner
James X, Koeno, who also won substantial
racing honor abroad, has not figured IN
racing 30 Ear this year, In fact. no senina
to be lcavipg this sort OF business to his
son FoNhnll, who, IN addition TO being about
the best " our crusn-cOuntry riApra knowe
a gond deal about tho modern racehorsr.
10th tho Kcenos are strong hettors. though
careful onea, md like most really sbnsiblc
men they nrp careful to know all about A
horse before they bot on him.
The one phenomenal plungcr who has thus
far come to tho fraut this year Is Ruey
Grammar. youth from tho West lln ia nut
lttlo more than a boy. but he "a a. pluciy
an they make thom. He raised Michael
nwyor'a commissioner out OF the bsttme
ring ono dag at urayos0nd, ana won, No ii
was said. trcm $4,000 10 SiS.000 on a slngir
race, 20 tho establishments aud despair OF
the old timers, who had looked 10 100 thn
boyish looking sport from the West Hwampod
The ielmon, boys thuy arc scarcely
boys now lnhurlt thoir fsther'a love Of
horsoaosh. August Belmont, tho elder
was what was known as good. nervy
hctor With Larry Jerome, William II.
Travfra and Colonel n. %. Duck OF tho
Spirit Y tho Times. all ~ whom arr dead
llolmout figured conspieuously at all the
race tracks and would back his opinions
TAR into tho thousands, His sons do not "a
In Tor pluuging Tho little bet,laE they do
10 through a third party,
David 7, Pulsifcr Is another old race
Eoer Who Il game bottor whom no Ia In
the hwmor. lilo is not much In evidence
this year. When he ran the famous littlo
swayhacked racer TNfny no hot Ih.r.
sands upon the horse and he lost a Food
deal Of money, gamer mera WILLING
horse npyor looked through a hH4le then
renny, but he could nos DO sN that M
owner expected him q Do and cot he could
do,
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