The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-03
Butte Department.
Did NOT DO A THING
"Little Pete" Makes Statement OF
His Bay District Trouble.
HE'S A WEALTHY CHlNAMAN
To Be Ruled Off the Track. he
Says. Is a Benefit to Him RI
nanciaIIy-He "Rushes
into Print"
HE'S A WEALTHY CHlNAMAN

into Print"
Little Pete makes the following state
ment I'm the Examiner of his side of
the trouble at the Bay District track:
Little Pete says he did not do
thing that the most punctilious race
goer. bookmaker or horseman might
not have done. He says his bets were
honestly made and that he is out some
5000 on the season. Little Pete whose
real name is Fong Ching, makes a
sporting offer Much has been said
about the race that Sea Spray won,
which some claim he should not have
won had Ii been ridden fairly.
II am ready said Pete last night,
to match Sea Spray for $500 against
any one of the horses that ran in that
race / will put up my own money ana
the horse can win 1t.
Nov. they talked about the race
that Scimitar won when backed him,
he continued. 'Scimitar won a race to-
day against better horses than any that
ran In the other race. Do they claim
that the jockeys in to-day's race were
dishonest?'
"Fong Ching is a Chinaman who has
been here since he was boy. he
speaks English as well as anybody.
He has made a fortune in manufactur-
ing shoes. He is a nervous, little man,
with a habit of twitching his lip side
wise. He bets heavily on the races.
and wears a $500 diamond ring on his
finger1
I".How much money are you worth,
Pete? was asked.
2"'Oh, / don't know.
l~.Got a bad memory, like Mr.. Hunt
ington, eh?'
lrPete did not think the comparison
nj N him and he haEtpnp0 to
explain.
s-.Oh. WELL maybe 1000 to 100000
Then he required to the subject OF the
races.
1.-The biggest winning I made in the
past two months he said, was on Sam
Leake on March IL. The horse was
ridden by Macklin. l backed him for
$500 to win at to l and for $500 at 2
to for a place. In the same race
Chorn rode Sir Vassar and / backed
him for $500. You can verify that by
Kingsley's or George Rowe's books.
AS for the race between Hidago
and Collins / didn't bet a cent on it.
Therefore l could not have paid $500 to
Chorn out of my winnings, for l had
none They can't show a bet of mine
in any of the books on that race, Near
ly all my bets are 'markers'-thas Is
marked in the books to be settled next
day, so that IL is easy enough to follow
my betting transactions.
LAS for me, / don't care about be-
ing ruled off. 1 will save money by 1t.
1 am loser on the game now, but 1
don't want to see injustice done to the
boys
I'm a written communication Fong
Ching makes full explanation of his
transactions and methods at the races
as follows:
tHro the Editor of the Examiner.
~ this letter
you will do justice to several wrong
fully accused Jockeys as well as to my
self The evening papers have stated
that a number of Jockeys have been in
the habit of visiting my place and ar
ranging with me to pull horses in the
following days races. This | emphati-
cally deny and can state many facts
we'll known to every bookmaker on the
track TO disprove the statements made.
1T has been stated that Jockeys Chorn,
Cheyalier and Hinrichs were the boys
with whom I had done business. and
that when Chorn was riding winner
i invariably bet on him, and when he
rode a loser i bet against him, and
that this state of things had existed for
-four or five weeks past. Now. in con-
tradiction of this l wish to state that
some of the heaviest losings l have
made, and the bookmakers' sheets will
bear out what i say (my tickets all be-
ing bought on credit, were lost on
horses which were beaten out by horses
ridden by the above named boys. II
your reporters will interview bookmak-
Lers on the following races they will find
proof of what / state:
mr. March bet 5000 or $500 on Thel-
ma. ridden by Chevalier, who put up a
poor ride and was set down for II.
sAll" March I bet $500 or $500 on Basso,
Jiwho was beaten a head by Collins with
mt .l.fr l.1nIr N1aAx
alier was controlled by me?
~ Feb. 2s bet $500 on Palomacita and
$500 on Road Warmer. Palomacita was
g beaten one length by Crawford, with
Chorn up. Did this look as IL Chorn
was controlled by me?
1.-The day before / bet 81. 900 on Babe
Murphy, who was beaten one-half a
length by Defargilla, with Chorn up.
- might give numerous other in
s stances where those boys mounts have
Lsbeaten horses I bet on, all of which
can be proved by the bookmakers
gsheets.
Il can only account for Jockey Hin
nrichs' statement by believing that II was
~ made in a spirit Of revenge. He visited
me some time ago and wished me to
assist in getting him a license to ride
at Ingleside. and also wished me 70
5 loan him 5000 to remove an attachment
on his horses. This / refused to do
: At that time Hinrichs blamed $. Schrei-
4 Der for preventing his license being is
r sued and declared his intention of get
ting even.
NOV, / want to say that every
horse have bet any great amount OF
money on in the past six weeks has
been the first or second choice of the
American Handicapped. regardless OF
who rode him. and the proof of this is
in the bookmakers' sheets. Does that
look as IL I was betting on or against
certain Jockeys mounts?
lone evening paper states that ]
had a swell bet on Collins against HI
dago, and gave Chorn $500 of IT, This
was the only race that day upon which
i did not bet 81 on. as I liked Hidago