The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-01

these hazardous details aside adds up the
great total of all tickets sold upon The
Bat" and then distributes all the money
represented by the great sum total of The
losing tickets equally among them. So
should the two blackhoards just men,
toned be imagined now as that total il
would be discovered that The Bat" hav-
ing fifteen strokes upon the first. and then
five upon the second, would have had
then twenty tickets in all. sold upon him
And twenty men out of the hundred-fiftv
10 each blackboard, as above-must have
the hundred hve-franc pieces; when THE
Bat" will have paid five for one. Not
three for one. Not ten for one. But five
for one.
Then why should the garcon de cafe
have walked studying the blackboards ?
To gain. if it might be- some idea of what
the pools might be looked for to pay. per
forming mentally the intricate calculation
just accomplished so successfully above.
1T looks as if The Bat might pay us
six for one, or five for one" 1T looks
as if AS If.
As if!
What do the sporting papers say? Per
haps they recommend THE Bat, at to
l, but deem him altogether out of price at
to l. Exactly! And so many trustful
souls have FASTENED to buy tickets on
THE Bat" when the blackboards appear
ed to indicate the flyer of the night. sup
pose, at to that now, in the twink
ling of an eye, they have piled in and made
him a false favorite. at to 1!
Here may be seen, however, darkly, a
glimpse of the why and wherefore of the
popular pelouse's better paying. The arts
tocratic "weighing-place," exact
ly, meaning not the mere grand-stand, but
the sweet, cool, airy grove in which it
rises, with the stables, the small tan
track where they walk the horses and the
quaint thatch-roofed pagoda of the rich
and naughty bookmakers-the pesage,
with it's calm public, mild serene, is not
given to the rapturous rushes and Internal
stampedes The Weddings of It's mutual
pools will be found to go hand in hand
with the bookmakers prices. the high-ton-
ed bookmakers, who bet with you on your
mutual honor only though by force, this, as
the law directs
The garcon de cafe-or the wine mer-
chant at the corner, or the husband of the
dame Of the tobacco bureau. or whoever
does not bet with these bookmakers who
have naught to do with the great pubic.
The French law has cut them out of the
French life, and they must draw their
profits from the privileged few. Yea,
privileged, at least to this point, that one
is so well known; that it, known to be
well" as it is in the idiom-that his sim
pie word is good for any sum that one may
HullDlt 10 the oGllOuS person WHO, note
book in hand, bows SO respectfully his
thanks
The bookmaker, betting, as they say, on
honor-and it is on honor-draws his prot
its only from the swells, "a happy few.
The plucking of the great fat public,
whose illimitable dollars lmitlessly chink
into its Golfers, not excluding Sundays, Is
reserved by the French government for its
own monopoly. Hands off A certain
Spaniard, by name Oller he who doth still
rejoice in the proprietorship of the famed
Moulin Rouge, conceived the idea of these
Paris-mutuels, "pari' being the French
word for bet" to which the go is affixed
for the plural. Oller thought it out and
set it working. But it was too good. His
'rake-off" was 5 per cent. of all the money
handled The French government, in TAX
ing the goodwill and fixtures to itself, has
made 1t seven. Seven dollars taken out of
every hundred. Seven cents taken out of
every dollar. How many passings through
the mutual" pools will my so largely
mutlfated dollar suffer eer il slips and fall
lcand roll and disappear through crack
Ib the universe from mere minuteness?