The evening times., 1899-02-02
JOCKEY SbOhn
WINS A FORTUNE
Turn of the Stock Market in
His Favor.
Gets $500, 600 by a Jump in Pan
handle Securities.
Coming East From San Francisco 40
beard the Lions in the Big
Exchanges.

San Francisco, Feb. Mot satisfied
with the winning of thousands of dollars
on the race track, the diminutive Tod
Sloan has turned his attention to the stock
market and last week when the big boom
came, caused by the jump in Panhandle
and the lifting of every stock on the list,
Tod Sloan was on the right side. 1t is
announced that the successful jockey has
made a clear winning Of $500, coo, and that
ali he had to do to claim his fortune was
to get to the Office of his New York broker
and order a sale.
No one knew that Sloan was playing the
stock market. He himself did not think
he was going into it heavily. He just
placed his money on the bull side OF the
market as he would place it on some ia
vorite horse, and things came Tod's way.
That Tod played a chance game is borne
out by the fact that he is not certain just
what stocks he bought. He remembers
buying, but he is forgetful when it comes
to long names. He remembers Panhandle,
but whether he invested IN Panhandle he
says is entirely too long ago for him 20
recall.
Sloan takes the winning Of $400, 500 as
coolly as he takes the winning OF a stake
race. He seems TO think that it was oniy
natural for him TO win; that losing with
him is out of the question.
In the meantime Sloan is journeying
East from SaI Francisco. He doesn't seem
in one bit of u hurry, either he seems TO
think the race over and won, and that the
chance for q further rise in the MAJ kei,
which will add to his fortune, is merely
side bet. Whether his stocks will 90 up
peg or tvso or drop peg or two is not
worrying him in the least.
Sloan has been travelling through the
country on a special train with Eddie Bald
and Charlie Dwyer. The trip was suppos-
ed to include a hunt through the Rocky
Mountains, and Sloan was expected to ride
exhibitions with Jimmy Michael as a mate
during the cycle races in this city. But
when Sloan heard that ne had won stake
OF Si00, ,0G0 ne decided 10 cancel his en-
gagements with Michael He and Dwyer
started on their way East. They will stop
in Chicago for two days and may stop off
! at some other OF the Western cities to see
friends and give the stocks chance to DO
something more toward adding TO Sloan's
fortune.
Dwyer also is said to have made quite
a stake on the New York Stock Exchange.
Like Sloan, he played just to be playing.
There were no Tacetracks convenient; the
fever to bet oyercame both of them, and
TO let oil steam they played stocks tot-
getting the play after they had posted
their money.
Sloan has declared that the $4)O, 0J0 Will
not keep him from riding in the future.
He, in fact, has declared that he will ride
harder than ever,
Eddie Bald the third member Of the
party, Will return To the cycle track and
viii at once re-enter training at San jose.
Bald will race at the Pavilion, in his
city. The cyclist has been going 1 pace
unknown even to himself since joining
Sloan in the transcontineElal trip. With
Sloan and Dwyer he has occupied suites
of rooms at the Palace Hotel at $50 day
and at least as much has represented
spending money each day. Bald has held
-to the pace right through 10 the finish
and is now content 10 drop back to more
prosaic life round the cycle track. *
will probably train here until March and
then so TO England TO race next season.