The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-07-06

how?'
mot much he admitted. but I do
know this much, and that is that old
DR.. Rice will capture next years
Suburban in walk
Then laughed again. knew few
about the horses myself. having been
pretty badly bitten AT the game at
sundry and divers times for several |
years before that, and remembered a
good deal about old Dr. Rice.
Its plain that you've got some.
thing in your head that doesn't belong
there ! said 10 him. DIR. Rice win the
Suburban hey? Say. don't you know
that DR.. Rice is three-legged cripple
and that he broke down so badly last
fall that there's not one chance in a
thousand Of his ever starting at all
again. much less starting in the great
Suburban. even If his name does appear
among the entries and the winter book
makers are laying price against
him.
That's all right about his not
starting said my deskmate. He'll
startand he'll win. Better take my hint
anu pay MN IDl 1ti y Dh it WI "a az
the winter books. and when he romps
in YOU won. have to do any more key
hammeting for livelihood. He's az
60 TO in the betting now. but he won't
be anything like that when be goes TO
the post
Then he went ahead and told me
in the most serious manner in the
q he ne .,'I 1~ llina
was relative OF his wife's. and how
this trainer. on recent visit at his
fiat. had convinced him that there
would be only one horse in the Sub
urban. and tna' one DR.. Rice. He said
r the trainer had told him that the old
horses bad leg was being carefully
patched up. and that by the time the
day arrived for the race he would be
able 10 make the run of his life. even
II he broke down and was never able
10 run again after winning the Sub
urban.
Zone night he told me that he wa.
!. going TO NOR; gage little house h'
owned over in Bayonne. y. j., wher'
he lived during the summer months
!. for $500, and put the whole bunci
!: down in the winter books on DR. Ric
= 10 win the Suburban at sixty TO one
: thereby standing TO win $4,000, a
" he put il to me.
".You are. hey?' said I, and ! 60
a. up. put in a two-hour time slip an
n rode right uptown 10 ms flat TO sc
Of his wife, whom Id known for a goo
in many tsaxs She was at the fat wit
4 her Ws-r~r. --v ~as a-s.ing he
IS when IT got there. and wadsl $50,
ID in and told her what her husband Ia
10 told me about mortgaging that bit
At New Jersey property
I'd Don't you ever put your name
n ANYTHING like that warned he
Take an old friends advice. and don
er YOU do it. You'll be sorry II you q
Ia To play horse with velvet none
no on the very day of the race Is bs
ed enough and dangerous enough; o.
IN for man 10 mortgage the only 4
80 tie piece OF property he owns for y
,r- sake of putting all the proceeds on
10 horse race that isn't going TO be ~
,r- for seven months is sheer imbecilif
s. ara wish you'd promise me that "
iii won't let your husband do anythii
&c. like that
H. .Sav. do YOU know she just laugh
~ NJ meo She had the DR.. Rice micro
le lust as bad as her husband did
~ probably because il was her hor'
~. racing relative who told them abo
oh jt-and she said that she thorough
~, annroved OF what her husband
INV tended doing-that II was the char
of their lives to get rich. etc. etc
III went away thoroughly Disguised
III. "Tvo nights later. when my del
,,' mate rot down to the Office, he lean
ere over ard said;
".Well I've been and gone and do
~ Got $500 on the little tepee o.
in Jersey. and every silver OF Us 40
with the winter bookies at sixty
one against. Ninety thousand'il ~
nca, little bunch to pull do'
won't it?"
\ You're an ass" was all ] was n
s. 70 saw to him. for my disgust
great
"Well. YOU remember what n
nened don't YOU? The word
passed around IN lht ia'e SPi'"S y
M o,d Or. Rice had been pretty
z patched up. and that he had sho
- some great trials for a cripple
u, odds against him were cut 20 'hl
= 70 one. A week before the race
odds were again cut 10 fifteen to
ara when old DR.. Rice went 70
rost he looked so perky and he seer
70 POSSESS so much Of MS old n
" nificcnt speed that there was ne
post-time play on him. and his p
N The close was about SIX 70
pied The old cripple got away flying
4 was well up in the bunch when
troublesome leg went back on
d'ye and he falicred. but with an Ell
-ban ton Of gamcncss such as was p
seen on an American race course.
!, tore or since, the old vagabond