The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-21
MADE A had BET.
Loser Was to Slap Sullivan, but He
Didn't Dc 1t.

Didn't Dc 1t.
Washington Post
One of the election betting idiots went
up against the real thing in New York
the other day., said travelling man,
HE made bet with a Democra tic
friend that the state of Maine would give
q larger majority for the Republican tick
ct than 1t did four years ago. The Dem
ocrat agreed in case he lost, to walk
into the Sixth avenue saloon OF Joe Wal
cott, the Stoeky WhlrlWind black uGgInsI
who has put ii all over a number Of the
big men, and to walk up to joe tap him
Ishtly on his ebon cheek, at the same
TIME remarklng, Bean porridge hot, BEEN
porrloge cold, bean porridge in The pot
! nine Gays old On ms part the RepuDii-
cana greed if he lost, to stroll into Jonn
lSL.4 Sulttyaips Forty second street cafe
trip up lightly behind the one-time cham
plon OF EN- all, spank the great John L.
lSntiy Oh The JoWis al the same time
remat king, Fat-a-cake, pat-a-cahe, bak-
eI $ man, bake cake~as quick as y,@
!. The terms of this bet made 1t look
like an cdds-on chance copper-sheathed
that there d be something DONG ara a
whole lot of it, for the loser, and SO tho
TWO bettorS naturally stayed up nearly
all night in order to get the returns
from Maine. The Rep q lean pa!ed
slightly When it was established beyond
Maine hadn't exceeded the majority OF
1our years ago, but ne huskily remarked
that lie didnt intend to crawfish SO far
as MS bet was concerned.
ION the following afternoon the Demo-
graf, with number of friends, stroled
into Sullivans place, ordered drinks at
the bar and stood by to watch the loser
IN the act of paying his bet. The Repub-
mean, VlSlDly trembling, entered John
j. S gin mill couple of minutes later
John L. dIsmally sober, and consequent
~ real cross and Grabbed, sat gioOmily
dressed up in the ornate back room of
his saloon. The loSer of the bet wi tn
countenance Of about the hue of chalk
wabbled out to the back room pretend
ing by his manner that he wanted-to View
the paintings on the back room wall
john l.. didn't notice him at all, but Just
Kept on glowering at the front door
The Republican knew that the Democrat
TO whom he had lost the bet was Watt.li-
ing him, and so, after casting many nIr-
tive Chances at the great eX-champion
behind the chair in which John L. was
sitting, stopped when he was about five
feet away from the big man, cleared
his throat nervously and begar:
1.-THE old used-to-was shifted in his
chair and glanced at the shaking chap
who'd gone wrong on the Maine prop
ositien.
'Wot's dat?" asked John, in deep,
rumbling tone that made the glasses on
the bar dance.
The Republican passed his hand over
his eyes like a man waiting for the
worst, and once more started in:
Then he caught old John LIS eye.
He saw that the old ex-champion was
looking right through him, and ii was
obvious to him, besides, that John L.
wasn't feeling real giddy and blithe at
the moment
Say" rumbled the ex-champion, af-
ter a horrible pause, It de woods wit
youse-t' de wood! Wot kim of a bug
'Pat-a-er-um-Pat Ahearn up the
street, tells me that you've got a new
brand of red eye in stock, Mr.. Sullivan,
and l thought that I'd come down and
try gasped the Republican trembling
visibly al the knees, both because he was
conscious of having WEIGHED drearily and
because the old ex-ehamp was giving
him the head-to-foot size-up.
a. Pat who% growled John L., half ris
ing in his chair; 'Wot dell is youse
tryin' t. cough
"Oh. nothing remarked the Republic
can, In a muffied tone, and then he made
one wild leap of it, shot by the Big man
just in time to miss the toe of John L.
right foot, and sprinted for the front
door like man returning to the counter
for forgotten change. The Democrat and
his friends found the welcher at the foot
of the Forty-second street uptown eIe-
waited stairs, shaking like sunlight on the
water. He begged so hard to have the
terms of the bet switched so that he
could jump off the Brooklyn bridge or
get into a scrap with trolley car or
permit himself to be hit on the wishbona
by Steamboat that the Democrat finally
let him off.