The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-01-01
BIG COMBINATION BETS.
TWo MEN VINO WOW THOUSANDS BIZ
RISKlNG A SINGLE DOLLAR.

Game Getting Harder To finy nov
$50 Albert Cooper has passed In his checks,
enid an old-time combination player. y
Death was running to-day with Tony Hamil
ton up I would make n combination roun,
him. I had II on Nov. % when e won ut II :
3 aud Tankard was at 100 ]. knew II la
between them. and sure they finished first AM
last with Death ahead all the way. Then
switched on to Fetiche.in the last race at Il
] and cashed a merry ticket at IL to l for TIVE
horses. Yes. Cooper was m inveterate com
bination PLAYER long years ago. before III
began training, and one OF his horses figured
IN one OF the biggest combinations Of late
years, No, not Peter the Great that fooled ri
many into playing him because OF his rro
Kinmme record OF third to Domino In n fas'
seven furlonGs; people forgot there were only
three in that race until they saw him run ab'
solutely last. More clever casuals were caught
over that programme done than anything else
That year. No, the horse was Aurelian after
W. A. Chanler bought thin. The day was Aug
25. 300 aud Pete Brommal. who dropped
dead in the ferryhouse a week later. picked
but Chic because he heard some girl use the
word, and then he picked the others because
he felt like It, and blufred around until one OF
the fly st. Louis combination men here that
season took q shy Mt him at starting prices for
his combination. and he got Chic. &C to l Tom
Cromwell. 4 to !: Clifford. 4 to 81; Aurelian.
% to 1. 8 to I. . to l taking It for the place)
Damien. place. 4 to 5. and Ben Elder. place. l
10 2 on. The word was put around among the
boys and when the brackets began TO be reeled
off the next day there was fun. Chic. Crom-
we'll, Clifford, Aurelian and Damien all went
through. and the st. Louis man followed Pete
round the field and offered 81 200 to be let of.
for Ben Eder Mt / to . for the place in a field
-..z .,.. "a .tnnt p,,t Data rynr11 NOT
and Ben Elder ran nth. Think Of 1t! How was
It figured? Why. Chic at 80 to l makes SOL
Tom Cromwell at 1 to ! makes S244 plus S61
Clifford ran It to 500; Aurelian brought it to
81, O9S plus 500; Damien brought 1t to 81. 232
plus 81, 116, and there 1t is, less the original
81, lust S3,347 to !. l never heard OF but two
others that ever approached it.
What about them? Oh. one OF them was
at PittsburG. years ago. in the real palmy days
for combinations. just when people began to
take an interest in them and to play the coro-
ner over them more than any other type Of
betting. There was n slick young fellow from
Los Angeles. a mild-mannered. innocent-look-
fng mug. who went to one Of the leading
rooms for several DAYS and played piker bets.
Finally he leased the privileges Tor combina-
tions, the boss not taking any stock in them.
He set up his slate by the regular one. and
ran IL on the principle Southern pools are run
on, with numbers instead OF names. When
one'combination of these numbers was sold to a
man it was Immediately scheduled up rs q
pool sold and any one could follow it or frame
another and post it, and go on. so that before
lcng there would be from twenty to fifty
groups all posted on the board. / went in
one day with n civil engineer. a friend Of mine
and one of the smartest mathematician l
ever met. He looked the game over and then
said:
"'That combination man has a soft thing.
There is about $3.50 a day clear velvet for him.
Let's go and see him
I'VE did and told the young fellow that II he
did not 'divvy we would blow the gaff to.the
boss, He. only laughed and told us to go
ton possibilities for the first time. Some. one
did put the boss on to Il. for at the end Of the
times. and the young. fellow said: Not much:
much in t, The boss started a slate. and the
Der that horse oriaamme, / think it was, be-
longing. to Withers? Anyway. Jimmy Rowe
cided to. sell it when he had a dream about a
race with a horse IN front blowing smoke and
ishing in the ruck, although their hoof beats
G gog 3 Jh teHlIG 3S :, r naG css | i9f f sD th tb rest s,,t] He
S %Ras I'D he do % with f1f'i the eas 1GF S SS@s p at%s:
the Passion Play. That's no dream. An
1th srr well-s sn9 Wb} PLAYER sssr re Sea Kas took s21s a triP
to hear of him In Paris. Baden. Monte Carlo
and such Ui h places; he e,o was II TT the e. Holy h Land an;
accumulated rocks when he went.
Another. big combination play which was
brought of in four installments OF % cents
last year at Morris Park. Maximo Gomez. 50
TO l. plaudit. 10 to /. and Rensselaer,. 4 to l.
other Tia hot one at the same track was vas when
Black Hawk, won. at. 100 to ! after running a
good second to, | think. Harrington. at old Je-
thing about that race. 4 weIl-Enown Broad
racetrack in his life except that ona day saw a
business friend on The lawn ana asked him
to EH55 have re a Sh little interest nter in the si race eacf fS EsS reply
was; Black Hawk. It's a cinch. Put a hun
dred on IL, As the picture man started for
anyway. as a starter by and by the nhotog-
and when Black Hawk won all the way from
start to finish. he cepered around and yelled
NIKE m;sS { S SrSz YOU ,hi WI1, n nbYR his tri SnS . snlS: ,H tSs
ticket from his fingers. It read $50 TO SO,
i sa Swn asFi soFid: i! ~ Is q a s siT "a 4 Z hio sieke or to Eh vain.
I've won. oh. yes. know all about the $50 to
L With f Ssy to q nan 7. anS Glfs aaid 3 + They a are r aR2shsf
no one would be foolish enough to pay 5000
to 81 ON any race and IL nearly frightened me
of until 1 saw a man with a large 80" on his
there. | asked him if he would lay me $50 to
BIG. and he said Yes and gave mo the ticket
map When he cashed we All went along.
laughed himself nearly OF the block, SAYING:
Yes. had 200 TO up and laid as many piking
Black Hawk being the tor horse on the slate
accidentally only rubbed out the two 'Os''
l~eavi9g:the -" standing; that yap saw it and
say, what am / here for? II my client likes
e, make their own odds TO favor M percentage.
why, he's satisfied. so am /, | havo no kick
coming The photographer does not know
the Joke to this day.
'Pittsburg Phil and Chris.smith areIboth cred
lied with making their start on combinations.
and Phil admits IL was combination cash
which gave him the ready to begin his famous
Chicago campaign, Superstition cuts a big
figure in comhinations, The other day a man
10 feeling clipper, He looked over the card
Tor the day and made n combination on Wheel
ing and New Orleans, Mt the former track tax
ing, Worry Not, place sto s. and Oracle. I to5.
aud NJ New Orleans DR.. Vaughan. g to ].
Morning, place ! 70 ]. and DR.. Marks. 9 to !.