Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-27
COUP BY SEEDY TOUT
TAKES $1,000 FROM SMART BOOK
les WITH A PAINTED HORSE.
Ran Him With Outlaws-The Owner
Was ii Cheap Looking Chap. but
He Knew the Tricks of
the Rnce Track.

From the New York sun.
The bookies were congregated in 4
Washington hotel the night before the
opening of the Alexander race track a few
seasons ago, when a down-in-the-heeI
srcrt walked in and said:
I've got a cop!c o nagS that have
been running for the past six weeks over
at the Maryland outlaw. They haven't
been one, two, six in any race over there,
and " gone broke paying entrance fees
for EN-. Maybe they'll be able TO do bet
ter over across the way at Alexander. l
want to chuck 'em in Il couple over there,
anyhow. for luck. But l owe a $50 feed
bill! to the Maryland outlaw people. and I
cart get my plugs away from there until
the thi, tvs paid. Now. you people are
sports. and som /. What / want to know
is. will you people cough up the thirty for
me as q loan, SOS | can get that pair O.
mine down here
The bookies listened to the man with
gradually increasing smiles, and when he
finished they gave him the laugh in
chorus.
stop your kidding said one of them.
1 can get all the outlaw race horses L
want for 80 a head
They all Clipped in with a crack at the
doietul looking sport. who appeared to be
rather a guileless sort of a chap for a
man with a short stable of racers.
They're "a good pair, all right. and one
worked six furiongs in l:2l fiat a couple Of
days ago.
TIN bookies all looked at the man as
One twenty-one fat for a six furlong
route; exclaimed one of them. Why.
look here. my friend, you're not SMOKING
down here with Il skate that does well
when he works six furlongs in that time.
are you? Don't you know that there's a
whole bunch over there now that can go
that route in ZIG or better??'
well, they've got a chance, anyhow.
said the shabby man. DO / get the $50 to
get EN- out o. hock?'
The bookies all turned their faces the
other way tnen, and when the man with
any Use he dug his hands into his pockets
disconsolately and handle out.
Loses on His First Races.
o the day that the meeting opened /
saw the shabby man In the betting ring. L
was behind him when he handed one of the
bookies a 81 bet on one of the horses en-
tered in the second race of the day. The
had belonged to the party that
he asked for the $50.
Playing EN-, eh?' said the booky, smil-
ing at the merchandising man. Couldn't
get. your pair away from the Maryland
outlaw, l suppose
Yes. dug up and got EN- out said
li' i'aIi iits j Htlc HUN lit one U
just gave me a ticket on at 500 to S. be-
Foh; is that so:' asked the bookmaker.
Well. hope you win. But you've got a
couple of 3-to-5 shots TO beat. you know
~ got a chance was all the man said,
walking away.
II took a look at his horse, the rank out
sider IN the race. when he went to the
post with the others. He was a 6-year-old
ggeIdins, and he looked rank and broken
down.. A boy that the shabby man had
brought along from the Maryland outlaw
was on the horse. 1t was a mile race. ana
the horse was twelfth in a field of twelve.
the paddock after the race. superintendine
the rubbing down of his nag. He seemed to
be a whole lot in the dumps.
The same horse was entered in the
fourth race on the next days card. 1t was
a held of crack outlaw performers. and
M ms ~ morse was again, the extreme outsider
around putting down 50 bets here and there
on 1noh MS plug; and felt sorry for him. The
HIM. Tic hard looking mans horse finished
ninth in a field of nine.
Won the Bookies' sympathy,
"'Wny don't you cut it out?' asked one
Of the bookmakers of the man with the
tough appearance. You're wasting your
stake
- got a chance was the reply.
The man got out his other horse on the
following day. He got 80 to / on him I,r
the six-furlong race. and his plug. another
rank and no account locker. finished last.
ms was the horse that could work six
iurlongS In III. The seedy mans conf
dence in his pair CT skates seemed rather
pathetic to me.
After both his horses had been in about
half a dozen races each, always finishing
last. and the seedy man putting twos and
hves down on them right along until The
hookies felt like not taking his money, l
game. But on the eleventh day of the
meeting his mile racer the 6-year-oid
gelding. was entered again. He wen to
cracks among the outlaws. I happened to
be close to the seedy mar when he went
around. according to his CUSTOM. putting
to be rather better fixed than usual that
day. for he had quite a bundle of lives
with him. 800
What do I get on my horse?' he asked
the first booky he struck.
The layer grinned, for he knew there
were eieht or ten good ones in the race,
I've got "a to l hung up about him,
and all you want of it, said the booky.
You can write your own ticket. in fact
Hundred to ]" asked the seedy man.
Odds 100 to 1.
why. sure replied the bookmaker.
And he took 50 OF the owners money at
100 to /.
seedy man in his tour of the books and /
saw him Put down $40 in S. bets on his
horse to win at 100 to l. 1t struck me
on the seedy mans horse. But wasn't
Gaping the bookies' game. and I've got
a lad for minding my own business any,
how, and so | kept off the race and went
into the stand to watch it. ] had a bunch
to play the seedy mans horse for a good
wad, but | reflected that If / got on and
the good thing went through the bookies'd
be suspicious about such a we'll known
player as = was in on 1t. and in the inves-
tigation the seedy man might be cut out.
and ] didn't want to knock him. But /
surely was a whole lot interested in the
way that race was to come out.
Il took a good look at the seedy mans
post. He looked much better and pretty
at that for such a rancid outsider.
The same boy that had ridden the horse
in his first race at Alexander island and
race.
The favorite. a horse called Walcott-4
TO . on in the betting-got off on the right
foot with a jump and started to tiptoe the
with the second choice. a good out
law named Halcyon, beginning to set sail
for him. The rest of the field of thirteen
Were all strung out. the seedy mans horse
that horse all the way. and / could see
that at the half he was under the devils
own pull. The boy had half a dozen wraps
on him. and / felt then. even if the favorite |
and going easily. that there was but one |
horse in the race. and that horse the seedy |
mans.
Lands a $1,000 Hand.
Suddenly the old horse. without a bit of |
whipping or spurring-the boy had simply |
given him his head-jumped UP like an
engine. and the favorite was taken
and spur. before they Were half way down
he stretch. Passing the stand WaIcott |