The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-27
SEEDY MANS HORSE WON.
AFTER HAVING BEEN REPEATED
LY LOST IN THE RACE.

n Thoroughbred Painted.
From the New York Sun.
Washington.-A mixed party of turf fol-
! lowers, down here for the Bennings meet
ing. which began to-day, and Washington
men about town had a cafe talk the other
night about some things that have hap
pened in former years on running tracks.
legitimate and outlaw. in this neighbour
hood.
/ when the outlaw track over at Alexan-
der Island, across the Potomac, was run
| ming few years back said New York
/ player, Il came down here from the wind
up meeting in New York one fall to see
if there was anything in the game in these
parts. Then, as now, I was playing, and
not laying. So this Alexander Island hap
pening that I'm going to tell you about
didn't bother me any, bad as 1t knocked
lot of the books.
81 got here before the Alexander Island
! meeting began. A couple of days before
the game was to be on, while 1 was in the
Pennsylvania avenue refreshment head
quarters of the boys who came here from
New York and other tracks to write the
tickets, a seedy-looking chap, who looked
as if the elements had conspired to make
him smoke a bum pipe in the game of
! life for long time previously, walked in
and edged around to the back room where
the bookies were figuring out the amount
of fresh money they were about to begin
taking out of the national capital. The
tOugh-looking man had a horsy look and
| a horsy smell about him and as soon as
l saw him I knew that he followed 'em
in SONG kipd of hanger-on capacity. He
walked over to a, table where a number
of the bookmakers were seated
Say said he, leaning his hands on
the table and addressing the party in gen.
! eral, you people are sports, amt you"
''The looks the bookies gave the shabby
/ looking man were intended to convey to
him the idea that they weren't publicly
posing hs hot tamales, anyhow. The man
got nofrepfy.
You're going to make books across
the way, amt your the up-against-it-look
ing chap asked, with an inquiring look
! all around.
Wen. what if we are? asked one of
the bookies. just for the good-natured sake
Of breaking the silence.
! 'Well,' said the down t-the-heel sport,
| I've got couple o. nags that have been
running for the past six weeks at the
| Maryland outlaw. They haven't been one,
two, six in any race over there, and I've
gone broke paying entrance fees for EN-.
/ Maybe they'll be able to do better over
across the way al Alexander. l want to
chuck EN- in a couple over there, any
| how for luck But l owe a $50 feed bill
to the Maryland outlaw people, and l can't
get my plugs away from there until the
! thirtys paid.N Now, you people are sports,
and som !. What l want to know is,
will yea people cough up the thirty for me
as aloan 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.
I can get all the outlaw racehorses want
for 81 a head
''They All Clipped in with crack at the
doleful-looking sport, who appeared to
be rather a guileless sort of chap for a
man with short stable of racers.
They're a good pair, all right, and
one of EMS on edge, too he persisted.
| He worked six furlongs in Ia fiat
couple of days ago
''The bookies all looked at the man as
if he were demented.
lone twenty-one fat for a six-furlong
router exclaimed one of them. Why, look
i here my friend, you're not smoking hard
enough to suppose that you can win down
! here with a 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 lie or better?"
We'll they've got a chance, anyhow
i said the shabby man. DO L get the $50 TO
get EN- out O hock|
1.-The bookies all turned their faces the
other way then, and when the man with
the pair of hooked nags saw that it wasn't
| any use he dug his hands into his pockets
| disconsolately and shambled out.
! ION the day that the meeting opened l
saw the shabby man in the betting ring.
l was behind him when he handed one of
the boolxies a IS bet on one of the horses
entered in the second race of the day.
The bookmaker had belonged to the par
ty that gave the laugh TO the shabby man
when he asked for the $50.
| PLAYING 'em, eh? said the bookie,
smiling at the 9run-down-looking man.
Couldn't get your pair away from the
Maryland outlaw, I suppose
Yes l dug up and got em OUT said
| the man. They're here now. The one
you Just gave me ticket on at 800 to IS
| belongs to me-. "
"sOh, is that SOL? asked the bookmaker.
| We'll. hope you win. But you've got
couple of to shots to beat, you know
. Il got chance was all the man said.
| walking away
81 took look at his horse, the rank out
slider in the race, when he went TO the
post with the others. He was 6-year-
/ old geldng, and he looked rank and brok-
| en- down. A boy that the shabby man had
| brought along from the Maryland outlaw
was on the horse. It was mile race.
and the horse was twelfth in field Cf
| twelve. 1 saw the gloomy-lookng, shabby
man in the PADDOCK after the race super
| intendendiug the rubbing down of his nag.
| He seemed to be whole lot in the dumps.
1.-THE same horse was entered in the
| fourth race on the next days card 1t
was a field of crack outlaw performers.
and his horse was again the extreme out
| slider at 40 to !. l saw the shabby man
walk around putting down So bets here
| and there on his plug, and felt sorry
| for him The bookies simply smiled COM
! miseratingly at him. The hard-looking
mans horse finished ninth In a field of
/ nine.
'rWhy don't you cut it out?" asked one
20 sba hook ma IxerS of the man with fhA