The sun., 1900-08-05

IN The track. The watches showed that he
had gone the distance " l:.e lat aud aira wdrp aS
around. .,-
Il happened TO be at the track on the morn
| ing that he did that little stunt and saw az
once. Of course. that there was money IN tnst
beast he could only yygS, 6s anGsd nSs Y o s see he
had been running in such no-acccunt fashion y 7
for several months that the dope keepers M had
hun out Of hs,r reokonnS &c, entir tSa ooaSns
kick up the dust In front OF him hs sa 4SneT
and trainer saw the same possibillties tns, ts,,d
ala, but in shrewdness OF planning ne sd fSeT Sest
me- When suggested that there ought TO % 90
&c chance for ,killiag with that four-year-0''
"A race track, even IN the early morning.
isn't the place to talk about those things: You %
keep your trap closed while l attend 70 hge
dsp Then YOU and thTes S Stsers sos ssSm sSree
Ing OF course TO pay his pro rata Of oil inc eh-
4 knew the man and. therefore. knew enough
weeks after that I got a telegram from hm
directing me 20 meet him at a certain place "
Chicago. / did ss the telegram directed ana
bookmaliers. who were also friends Of mine,
After he had assured himself that there was
spy sad es
the colt in race to be run at Gloucester in tive
weeks. He said It was a soft spot for the colt
aIyway bnt in the condition that re woSu E.tes 90
he figured that the colt could do l:Ao nat he
had to. That was at least two seconds peter
than the best Of his competitors could go the
This time for shipping the horse Fast was
agreed upon and then the LAYING OF the bets
to be in on the deal had arranged to have two
commissioners in every poolroom In the copn-
try. from New York to San Francisco, with
CATION under their immediate charge wa, t9
look after things. The Kentuckian and
were TO do the betting at the track. He had
I had a very decent sized roll while the book
matters had enough to make them stand par
We figured that the odds ought to open at
worse, under the force Of our betting. II II were
us we had so,ooC and that was TO be scat,
west, wherever there was a poolroom II We
got that down at an average OF 10 to We would
81 course he winners TO the tune q 500 .oO
killing ever made in this country. ,,
The horse arrived at Gloucester safely
four DAYS before the race ne vas In grand
every day,, The Kcntuckian sent TO New York
for a good. careful boy. to ride. II wouldn't
have done to have, got too famous q JOCK, De.
u
and good enough 70 win With. Between 10
and II o'clock on the morning OF the race We We
country. showing that the odds in the pool
rooms against our horse had opened at Is TO
Just about what We had expected they would
be and that the bets were being placed In
suoh a manner that nobody seemed 10 be on,
This was the kind OF news We wanted and the
kentuCkian and | began to figure on spend
All won't well in the betting ring AT the track
until the horses were going TO the post Then
the kentuckian got over anxious; He had
about thousand dollars in his clothes that
ha hadn't vet bet, and that money WAS just
burning holes through his pockets. Ia his
anxiety TO get the money on before the start
his movements became rather frantic. He
was well known In the ring at Gloucester and
was Of enough consequence 10 make any hasty
moves among bookmakers stands noticed.
That inquiry started more inquiries and Il
was not long before everybody In the ring
knew that he was backing j. b. F.
Now must tell YOU that never on any race
track was there such an inside ring as there
was at Gloucester. Things went the way the
rings money went or they didn't go at all.
carving big rot OF money. In fact on the
merits Of the race he was the only horse we had
TO beat, As soon as the ring found out mean
hS Circle Rss ra 1 eSa s had tx bs
done. They didn't know how good our horse
was, and they didn't know how much money we
u, IL
Of our bets. any way. The only hing left for
them, Therefore, was TO see that We were done
our Of the race. Now what do you suppose
happened! While the horses were on their
despatched thither by tbs quickest route he
could take. He got there IN time. as We saw.
casually rode around and talked for q moment
with three other Jocks
They Were az the post not more than minute,
VI ll re- yap n
they were out and away TO a beautiful start.
We got of about fourth. They hadn't gone
hundred yards before we could plainly see
just got our nag into a pocket and all the way
round kept him where he couldn't get ont. IL
was pocket 50 tight tina, the only way to get
through or around was for the colt to have
wings. Ii was then all over but the shouting.
The horse which carried the rings money won.
and 80 carefully did those other jocks follow
orders that We finished fourth, in just the po-
sition We had started
i tell YOU that was a dav for weeping and
Naing and gnashing, OF teeth. II wasn't the
$40 900 that We minded 90 much losing. because
We We're only in about IS 60 piece but II was
the fading out OF sirht Of what we stood TO
win that gave us nervous prostration and nearly
there was no use crying over spilled milk. II
was just part OF the racetrack game and
the other follows had got Ia on us. After II
commissioners we found out that at the odds
which We had obtained throughout tho country
We stood 70 win little more than half million
dollars. Had there been no ml-hap that would
have been the biggest. killing ever made In
this country and probably In the world. But,
my boy, while this is story OF how a great
big killing was planned and failed, stories
of smaller affairs could be told nearly every
day. It's only when a big winning Is made
that the public hears about II, and ! want to
tell YOU that unless you can afford 10 lose all
YOU put up and all the extra expense besides.
II il not worth the trouble and the anxiety 70
Try to pull off killing