The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-23

turned up he could get 81 200 by writ
ing to my New York address. ! figured
it that the young man might have gone
off on a prolonged toot, and that I'd
hear from him all right. But 1 didn't.
In the fall of 95 | was booking out in
San Francisco. One afternoon in Octo-
/ ber ] was busy handling rush money
on a lot of good ones in a saEen and a
haf furlong race, when a seedy-lOOk-
ing man crowded up TO me. The man
was partly jagged.
'Ha,' he said. addressing me. It's
good for the blue devils to meet up with
a layer with whom my credit is good"
Il look the man over. ] had the
vaguest possible memory that / had
seen his face somewhere before, but
couldn't place him for the life Of me.
He continued smiling in my teeth.
thought he was q bit too much under
the red stuff TO understand what he
was talking about, and so L went ahe4d
taking in other betters' money.
Just give me 81, 200 worth of Ma
mic Scott, old pal, will your said the
s'=edy-lookng man, regarding me ami
ably
Sure said I. Pass up the cash
Oh, just charge it to my account
said the man.
busy.
Or he continued. still regarding
me with his grin, you can pass ME over
the twelve hundred. and III put it down
with another book
Makes His Money Win Again.
well. L looked at him again this
time. and 1 recognized him. 1t all came
to whom l owed $1,000.
"'Oh, you're the boy said l. and he
saw that l recognized him. Die have
nice time when You walked Off that
day?'
. Pretty fair. thanks said he Dye
want the 81, 200 on Mamie Scott?'
Yes, I'll handle it." said 1, and 1
gave him even money on Mamie Scott
for his 81 200.
Then Mamie Scott walked out and
broke the worlds record for seven and
half furlongs. going the route m
1881 VI that wasn't enough to give
a man the tizzy -whizzy-a disappear
ing gent act that began and wound Up
with the smashing of two long-stand
ing turf records-why, I'll eat my slate
[ passed the young fellow his $500
when he strolled around for 1t. told
him that he had too much OF the evil
eye on him for any more play on my
sheets, however, for, honest, | WAS
afraid of him. 1 found that 1 was JUS
tilted, too, for he went in from that
time and cleaned up $4,000 in two
weeks, disappearing at the end of that
time I saw him in Chicago last sum-
mer. He's got another hat store. is as
straight as a string. and he told nle
that he was afraid even to read the en-
tries or results, for fear ned get the
old bunch to circulate around the ring
again"
Lucky Wager By Lunatic.
II had a mysterious sleeper for $500
on my sheets out in San Francisco too,
two years ago. said another of the lay
ers "A young fellow who looked to
me as if he had st. Vitus dance ar
some other nervous disease, bet me $3.50
on old O'Connell at evens in a siX-fur-
long sprint. I noticed the young fei-
low particularly. because his hand
shook so when he handed me his money
that l almost dropped it, and l was go
ing 20 make some sort of crack about
his interchangeable when / noticed
that he was afflicted. 1 didn't know
who he was. O'Connell walked in all
alone that time. but the young fellow
didn't come back to collect his $500. /
tried to describe him to a lot of local
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