The sun., 1899-04-02
VIEW COUNTERFEIT CAME
Bad Money Worked OF on Bookmakerp on
Very Long Shots.

Very Long Shots.
| WASHINGTON. April IA number OF the
| bookmakers recently in from New Orleans to
put up their states at the Bennings meeting,
| which begins on Monday. are telling Of new
! one which shrewd lot OF Queer-shovers seem
TO have worked with considerable success DUR
ing the winter meeting OF the Crescent City
Jockey Club. Every bookmaker In the ring
during the New Orleans meeting seems to have
been victimized to some extent according to
these stories.
Il believe was Good Thing No / among the
layers in the New Orleans ring" said book.
maker from New York who as rule is not re-
Rarded as something easy by people who
know him. 1T was early In the meeting
in the latter part OF December. II
remember correctly. We were all laying
| good prices against q fairish bunch OF
two-year olds-it was big field-and one Of
the outsiders at the opening was Ally called
Rosalia. The ring got thumped on that race.
Rosalia was played down to 10 to l, and when
1t came TO running she won away of. / had to
pay out something like sl.250 on that race. A
man that / knew. an employee Of the New
Orleans Custom House. was in on the good
thing that went through. and he soaked me for
$50 on it. He was the last man to show up
in the line for settlement, and my cas- hier
passed him out his money In tens. The Gus
tom House man. a practiced handler of money.
felt OF the notes as they were dished out to
him. and the very last ten that the cashier
passed ont to him gave him the binks. It was
anew. crisp Treasury note. and a nice looking
piece OF the green at that He handed It back
to my settler.
Phony. said he.
60 away said the cashier He knew the
! Custom House man. too but he thought there
must have been mistake. You're smoking
The green goods outfit is further up the line.'
NJ 81 - Al T,,.
tom House man. lt'ss bad paper. and then
he pointed out to the cashier the whereness
and whyness OF the bill being n. q. l took
hand then. and saw after a close inspection
that the bill was counterfeit. 1t was a nice
Job. too but am pretty good at m oney myself.
although had taken in this bit OF the long. I
raps ana hs aone new Sh s5
fhs R 'ns
Phony es Z IL nS
ind it onl, and paid the counterteits back In
queer stun The man that got me must surely
one Of thoss senuHe gen botssi:uP P' good things.
and none OF NC In the ring found out what was
With Rosaiia and the horses were at the, post
Now; a Queer-shover who gets rid OF his
ton, ' He s stands hardly show how n the world Q,
getting nipped when he's putting the stuH
crush surrounding him and passing In bills OF
al denominations hand over hand. the layer
S get glimpse ns eosner %oe
q the tS Of his is eye to find out the size o.
time elther to look tSs Siiis oyer csrs;aily. fos
layer 80 Far as that end S o t. e'n'n
in hs w.; REs got otto TO e. On
Of the racing % game to make 1t pay: and theress
down any ahsntity e tfs bad PiIl.: d. aSeer:
New @ sop q +. PhoHy sooas
City me meeting'' When Covlnston Ky. won q
howa wa.ss o to s4 Ss1ne
Rhlayed here and nd there ere frH% % l59.o b. piasrs:
r.. 1ns G See the
wsHt 3 the tben Pes srbas i9g9a eaGR Reresty
long sshots was known around the ring. from
hsd 6ss on G6 ash o. these
bO GS ssS 9 90 on na
K Ts S Wno S ihs s..n ns5 as 9s
Tor years, Ono Of the bookiss happened to
m g SS TO s o h. hs Saa tafss
Meus % sIs 0Sds sd & sasa.S nS Sy s has
piker had we not Jumped between tho pair,
there nn IN a could sT2g S
p1n SfSt HSd a%d a%% ri e RsUs
hs bum s ,Es 0 q = ns%
and The kid got j, down is throat and like to
have choked to death before 1t was hauled out.
.n"NSw; rs not ABSOLUTELY certain: q course:
na hV lnDU hot fnIa ltIti .raI liaR
that they were always taken in when horses At
big prices got over the plate first. man who'll
felt, i s reasonabl: TO suppose, s not going 70
do it for the sake Of winning on short priced
while on favorite. he'd have to dump enough
q the bad stun into th" ring to lpeer his gam.
being spotted, or elsc he'd, have 10 be content
with pulling down small winning on a favor
are little money hunters, and that's why am
moderately sur" that they EN- were the iopg.shot
:, The last time the bad money was found on
Tray 'ny a"" won race " @ 10 "TH to Now tho s1orts
IN that race ii was run couple Of months ago
II looked as i Tragedy ought to walk in, and
that's why We nut the short even money hgnre
mee,' % Wei, Yours Truly coIIaTed ' TraGedS @ and
the other leaders in the stretch. and then there
before they were on four or I'VE oi tie cashiers
found weI.done Treasury pot" rhonis@s. tens.
in their satchrls Yet every man who collected
on Yours Truly-the horse had been backed
down from three 1gures in most Of the books
was known TO the layers TO 0e perfectly on
the square. / heard a couple NJ the layers
taking about writing "a the Secret Service
OUTFIT about the thing. but | don't know
whether they did so OF not The Yours Truly
coup was the last one pulled IN down at New
Orleans by the qu"er-Shovers, II the phony-
handlers were really the players o! the long
shots. and l. for ono, think they we're
SO here's n new doig-. YOU see. II appears
to have broken cut at the other wint"r, racing
point. San Francisco. too although | don't
! know to how large an extent. | know that a
few days after that colt OInthus. tha rank out
slider in short field Of stakerS won his stake
race at Oakland couple of months ago. with
| 30 10 quoted about his chances. cot a letter
| from friend II mine who was bOoknR in tho
| Oakland ring telling meas " he thought II
| was quitf-a new pTopOsIt DH-tha he had taken
! in several bum bills on that race" ~