Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-09-02

him, and thousands OF nervous hands
are ready TO overwhelm him with money
if he should dare to ''lay up" against
the faVorite. 1t does not seem as II
they were watching. They surge and
eddy and buzz and roll about the great
ring In vast speculative maelstroms,
without lingering long at any particu-
lar spot or seeming to watch any par
ticular thing. Marx up the price on the
fayorte a shade and watch them.
All, now you are "chumming" for hu-
man bluefshl In an instant there Is a
buzz and roar, and they come for you
like a resistless school Of sharks.
Lucky for you that you are on high
ground, so to speak. Otherwise they
would drown you with money. very
fine way to die, Of course, but not the
customary thing with bookmakers. As
class they can swim a beautiful over
hand stroke through sea OF green
backs. Whenever YOU think you have
taken a sufficient sum, mark down your
figures, and the storm will subside, as
If by magic.
IT REQUIRES NERVE.
If you do not think that IL requires
nerve to keep cool head In all the tur-
MOL and confusion of a betting ring,
you can easily find it out il you happen
to have $40, 600 to squander. To take
in money as fast as you can handle 1t
with both hands, to make some sort OF
q mental calculation of what you have
taken in, so as to avoid actual bank
ruptcy, and to scratch and make figures
Just at the proper time and at the
proper odds, requires a man with a
many sided mind. Old time bookmakers,
who have grown gray in the business,
can keep track OF their finances by a
sort of instinct, but men new at the
business are very apt to become ratified
in emergencies.
Bookmaking, although comparatively
new in this country, has been In vogue
in England since the days OF the latest
George. Bookmakers across the water
are Just as sharp and shrewd and quite
as fully posted on the varying merits
and dement's of horses as those whom
we see every day at Jerome and Sleeps
head or Morris Park. They have a
spectacular way OF doing business, how
ever, that is not in vogue on this side.
This, of course. does not pertain to
members of Tattersails'. They stand
under gorgeous colored carriage um-
brellas, dressed in the most fantastic
costumes. Some of them wear red and
white plaid suits three times as large as
the average checkerboard pattern, with
absurd hats. Imagine "Buck" Thomp-
son in d blue plug hat and plaid clothes,
with brass buttons two inches in diane
ter; picture Riley Grammar or "Vil
GINA" Carroll 10 Mephistohelian r.
bowling for bets like lurid manlf
They would undoubtedly make a or
hit, but it is doubtful ii they C
rake in additional bets by such meth
One OF the queer bookmaking
acters on the English turf was I'D
Dunn, who went by the sobriquC
the "Siver King" Dressed in
plush swsllowtailed coat, gorg
knickerbockerS, with fancy stocki
shoes with enormous buckles al
silk hat with brim. foot wide, he
sight we'll calculated TO max
American speculator shaky as TO
ultimate fate of his bet. Dunn's
was as good as his boud, however.
race coarse at Doncaster adjoins
grounds OF n we'll known charitabl
stitution. On one side of the divi
fence were the long lines Of mushrC
like umbrellas where the bookma
held forth, and on the other were
Quiet lawns and shady trees aud
home Of the dark-veiled sisterhood.
was Dunn's custom 10 throw all
silver he took in during the day in
large handbag. Then. after the tasg
race, he would dump the entire cargo
over the fence for the benefit OF the in
stitution. Bsvond the merit OF the act
was the great advertisement it brought
the bookmakcr. In this way he acquired
the title OF the "Silver King" There
are no modern bookmakers SO charita-
bly disposed. Sometimes the gorgeous
costumes OF the English bookmakers
were the means Of bringing them into
disrepute. occasionally some uuDrinci-
oIed individual would copy the dress Of
some erratfc "bookie," make book for a
dav and then ''weIch." The best known
members of Tsttersalls' make what is
known A finger" bets, and settle or
collect. u the case may be. az the end
of each ysek.
AAD-TnEE RooKMAKERs.
s.Abs to say, the first booking in
this ndkry, as far as can be ascertain
"A trVone In Philadelphia, about
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