The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-24
PRESERVED HISTICKET
IT CALLED FOR $1,000, hut THE
RACE TRACK MAN FAILED
TO CASH 1T
CAME BACK A YEAR LATER
- cn the Second Turn the Investor
Managed to Double Rss Money
Victims of Heart Disease-StO-
rics of the Track Told by Book
makers Who Know the Secrets
of the Betting Ring.


New York Sun.
After the number of the winner of the
third race at Bennings had been hung out
on Tuesday afternoon last there wasn't
much doing among the bookmaker's cash
iers. The race had been captured by an
outsider in the betting. Jubilant little
punches of two or three, who had picked
the winner. formed, however, in the set
tiers lines, waiting for the announcer to
confirm the race One Of the fortunate
betters was middle-aged. we'll dressed
man of 80 who, although he had won
pretty heavily on the race, did not exhibit
any particular evidences of cheerfulness.
He was an old hand at winning and los
ing. and he looked like a man who knew
how to take the game as it came along.
He was, by his looks. the least excited
man in the betting ring. The announcer
confirmed the race. and the cool-looking
man. the first In his line. passed his num-
Der to the cashier, saying:
The boys told me when put down this
: bet that l was on a dead one, and they
all seem to have taken hack at the ia
vorite. Now they're camping out, and
I'm on a live one
Then his face suddenly contracted into
an expression of agony, both of his hands
went TO his heart, and he fell dead. The
crowd thought the man had only tainted,
and several of them carried him over to a
corner of the ring and tried to revive him.
y physician came along, and, after Sec
ond'S inspection, announced that the man
was beyond resuscitation-that his death
had come instantly from heart disease.
A knot of bookmakers were talking
about the occurrence that night, and. ex-
changing stories of
ODD EXPERIENCE IN PAYING OFF.
Before L began hanging up a slate
on my own hook said one of them, 81
was handling the satchel for one of the
old-time block men down at the st. Louis
fair grounds. One afternoon the boss
passed me over a clean new $1,000 bill
that he had just taken in. 1t was a two
horse race-Madeleine and Linda-and the
betting was pretty brisk on it; but as the
old man wasn't in the habit of taking
down such big money as that In single
eoDs, looked up to see who the better
was. He was a quiet-looking chap of
80 or so. He looked as if volcano
couldn't get him on the run. He looked
as sleepy as cat in front Of a grata
fire | thought at the time, MY boy.
you're nice, tidy, unsoiled one-thousand
William to the bad for he was taking
the long end of it-Madeleine, at to ],
Linda was at to 5 on
1T was a three-quarter sprint and tbe
two mares hooked up all the way around
IL was beautiful race. and either one of
EN- was winner right on the wire Lin
da. however, just stuck out her tongue
land won in the last jump, as I could see
from the. proper angle at which l stood
right behind the judges stand. A lot of
petters. who had stood at the wrong an
gle above the judges stand thought Mad
ellne had pulled down the stake
The young fellow who had passed over
the MOOO bill on Madeline was the first
TO show up at the front of my line. His
eyes were twinkling, his face flushed
and he looked as If he felt pretty good
He was a man over six feet high. his
weight was above 200, and he looked as
II he could wear out a punching bag
saw that he was under a misapprehen-
sion--that he
HADN'T WAITED FOR THE NUMBER
of the winner TO be hung out But he
looked game and able to lose that 1
didn't mind putting him right.
Close, eh?' said l.
"Devlish close. said he.
with a little better ride down the
stretcn Madeline would nave got the
money said I.
You mean Linda said he.
No, I don't replied. L mean Mad
cline
lie looked puzzled.
90 You haven't been smoking seconds,
have you? he asked, looking at me GU
riously Madeline won by a head
" Maybe she did from where you stood,
but not on the wire told him.
His face grew white and a vague,
dreamy expression crept into his eyes,
and said 1 to myself: There's a chap
who looks like the rock of Gibraltar in a
collision, and yet here he Is hollerlng
murder inside of him like any hard loser.
Linda first, Madeline second.' shout
ed the announcer and the man in front
of me reached over and clutched my arm
until I could feel his finger nails, his eyes
closed and a second later l had the
weight of a dead man on me- let MIN
down to the floor of the ring as gradually
as could. being a slight man myself,
and then the usual medical man came
nm and pronounced him all out. A man
who has ever been warned by experience
that he owns a heart, much less a man
1-bo knows that he's got something the
matter with his heart, has no right TO
monkey with the ponies. IL was dn-
nounced the next day that TINS younS
fellow. who had been the casher OF d
- sara denosit company, had passed up
the game of his life with an Slo'Voo shy
ness in his accounts.
II had an odd experience with sieep-
er' few wears ago." said another Oh the
bookmalsers Il was drawing III OUT a.
washington park in the summer OF u
T'nicked IN quite clientele OF nara pet
ters out in Chicago who dlon k,ioM
much about the horses. Some OIL lii0iii
had all kinds of
RJJJ-HEADED LUCK,
+bouob esnecially one young fellow VINO
cI,,ed a hiee hat store on Dearborn street.
E,his chan didn't really know race morse
from a bucket of whitewash and ne was
generally something over three parts Up
Sv at that. and yet he had such an I'M
orr;no wav of picking EN- on pure hunch
+botI oot to rubbing on principle every
tir,o he showed up in my line. He sockeo
~ 10 me- for a good many thousand ool-
Iors in the course of that summer. lie
nIaved nv book alone, for 1t really ap-
,oearad as if I was dead to anything ne
nlaved on nv sheet, and l don't stano
for hoodoos like this, and so Kept righl
on. giving him what he wanted ieens
confident that I'd get him ana ms ie.
store if he played them WIN ms ey $50
+hrougbout the season-for bull-neauSu
luck don't class with percentage, ho'"i
standing all the stories about II.
con the afternoon in July, 1884, when
Sabine paced out and broke the world
record for a mile and three-eighths, dong
the distance in 2:1S%, this young felloW
colIared me for 5000. I had given MN .
to / for $500. I waited for him to turn
I'D for his money after the race, pue ne
didn't appear He didn't make his ap-
pearance during the remainder of the art