The sun., 1894-08-13
RILEY GRAMMAR, ,PLuNGER.
4 BoT FROM kENTUCKT VINO WILL
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DEL 80 MUM IS ANI.
His Operations 80 Bold that Hs w.s Asked
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Hor-e-es Foreea the Management % let
His Hs-si--wo. 100000 On Saturday.
The turf has furnished many phenomenal
plungers within the last twenty years. but the
most remarkable is young Grammar, who is Just
now playing them up as high the sky Of sara
toga. his winnings on saturday being about
100000. Like many other successful horsemen
Riley Grammar Is native of Kentucky He Is
so youthful in appearance that when persons
who have heard of the young man as one Of the
coolest spectators ever seen hereabout visit the
ring 10 get a look at him. and see slender boy
without trace Of beard or moustache they in
variably think they are being made game Of
and say contemptuously; what: that Gran
nanr Why. that is only a kid he has put on the
box while he stepped out to get a sandwich"
Grammar resembles Pittsburgh Phil inasmuch
as both are extremely young looking. But they
are widely different in the methods they pursue
in quest OF fortune. Pittsburgh Phil likes to
play the game from the outside, and although
he will bet great amount ~ money he will do
it in the most unostentatious manner and when
he wins make no fuss over IL. Grammar. on the
contrary, likes to lay against the horses in his
book, but whether he remaius upon the box or
gets down upon the ground he makes a noise.
and 1t is difficult to tell how he fares at the
close OF any days sport.
New Workers first heard OF this young man in
the West about two years ago. when. beginning
with next to nothing. by a series OF daring ven
lures he won something like $4,000. He lost
this as quickly he had gained it, but begin
ming anew he came on East last season and was
on the block at sheepshead Bay with something
like 500. 900 at his back. He had not been here
twenty-four hours when his fellows in the ring
began remarking upon his coolness, one Of the
cleverest Of the bookmakers putting II this
way:
He's the coolest. iciest duck we have had around
here in many day"
II was a fact that none Of the heavy plungers
hereabOuts, no matter how much money they
bet, could make any impression upon him IL he
thought the horse they were playing had no
chance to win He had not been here long when
he began sending sarcastic messages to- VI. r.
Dwyer. through his commissioners. He took
$4,000 OF Mr.. Dryers money one day on a horse
and It lost. The next time Mr.. Dwyers COM
missioner came near his slate and bet a similar
amount Grammar asked him II he had any more.
and sent word to the plunger that he would lay
him the odds for as much a. he cared to bet.
He could have picked up an easier M marx than
on Stonenell, and Mr. Grammar took a vacation.
After few days, however. he was back again
bit shy OF the Dwyer commission for a time IL
was not long before he began looking for big
money again. At the close OF the season in this
vicinity Grammar went south, and later on he
showed up in California and did business at the
he was there Week, but rnt into Some trenble
with the authorities there and was ruled OF be-
cause he refused to tell the name Of a man who
had approached him with regard to fixing GER
tain race.
The, officials OF the San Francisco track
Jockey George Miller. and local paper accused
the bookmaker OF collusion with the jockey and
proved but upon Grammar refusing TO give the
name of the man who he said had approached
him with proposition to fix a steeplechase the
management told him that he could no longer
do business there. After little time Grammar
did give the name OF the man. but subsequently
Withdrawing all that he had said. and the on
cials, who were about to rescind their former
ruling. let it stand. Subsequently, however.
they reinstated Grammar. and the piunger was
on hand when the big meetings began here this
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good judgment or II combination OF both. he
won great many heavy wagers at Gravesend,
not resist the temptation Ia taunt the losers,
and he had repetition Of his experience in
casions. Since the saratoga meeting began
Grammar has kept his fellow pencillers there In
remarkabie Information. and m il u.s. is said I'D that that
Byron McClelland with whom he is very friend
ly, Is more or less interested in his speculations
standing upon his box at the sprinss track he
has taken as much money as the pm bile has
cared To bet any horse he has deemed unable
the outside thousands OF dollars the horse he
had selected a probable victor. 80 strong was
his ystem OF play. and 80 bold his operations
that President Walbaum Of the Saratoga Asso-
citation. who has several books in the ring noti-
fed him one day last week that his room would
be preferable 10 his company. There was no !
chance for Walbaum's books tn make any !
money with such mechanic as Grammar about, |
and he was not wanted there.
Grammar told his friends how he had been |
treated and "A petition was drawn up at once by |
those in the employ OF Walhaum, protesting |
against the unwarranted action of President |
Walbaum. and asking that Grammar he per-
mitted to ply his vocation as long as he did not ]
violate any rules Of racing.
Byron Mcl leland and other horsemen threaten |
ed Ia take their race horses away from the track.
aud the management forced to yield. since !
been on a still higher scale. eliminating Satur- |
LAY with winning OF $50. 900. He bet very |
heavily on Robin Hood. Lehman. The Com |
moner. and Ballarat, and book knlsker who |
arrived from the Springs yesterday said that il !
luck kept up ne will have all the race
track money In sight before the Saratoga meet
ing closes.
The newest plunger Is not more than o6 or ~ |
years old. dresses quietly, and j. rather plain |
looking, his most Distinguishing feature being a
nose which is of the snuh variety and gives its
owner the appearance OF being wide awake all
the time. His eyes are gray and never still
When the Sheepshead Bay meeting begins in
couple OF weeks the best race horses OF the
West will meet the cracks Of the East, and the
Western plungers always come To Sheepshead
Bay 10 get the money. The conflict between
Grammar and the other high rollers will be ex-
tremely interesting. At the rate he plays it il
not improbable that he will be- broken before
Dut there is no telling how much money he will
win.