The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-01-07
THE NEW BOOK MAKERS TIP
WRECK or a GROWING ROLL at THE
OLD GLOUCESTER TRACK.
"reminiscences of the Dayswhen the Running
Of Race Horses Was Unc~rtain-Rry"ng-
Worked by n G%uttenburr Jocky Upon
the Bookmaker who Cast Him on.

OF Race Horses Was Uncertain Revenge
worked by n Guttenburg Jocky Upon
tho ~Bookmaker WIN Cast Him on.
Il heard somc~hrrc the other day" said one
81 a party of turfmrn who wei. dining together
after the Mccoy Maher mill. that Billy Thomp-
son the cS Duke u Gloucester. is trying to cook
w some scheme whereby the legal authorities
Of New Jersey II rclent and permit him to start
the old Gloucester merry .go-round again. |
don't think he'll make II stick, II the story is true,
but II Gloucester ever is started again | know
n man who'd be- very liable Ia burn tho barns
down some dark night | don't think he'd let
the Gloucester mud.lark and snow bird racetrack
operate while he lives.
IN 1880 this man I'm talking about-h he had
passed up = good grocery business to play the
races a year before-had nursed together a wnd
Of about six thousand dollars, and this gave him a
bid case Of the Sandow vest. lie was SO chcsty
over having all that money that he concluded
he'd try a whiTl on the block. There was only
winter racing gong on when nc got that smoky
notion into his hat, ard hat was al Gloucester.
Ns you fellows kro", they used to run en- there
In snow UP To the saddle pcmmcls, and tho plug
that could make out the best without goirg over
the fence, or that didn I become crazy from snow
blindness, always yankcd down the money at
Gloucester that is il he was meant to win.
This cS st!gnr and tea guy was n dead vcr-
dhnt one at the bookmaking game when he went
on the block at Gloucester, but he kept his ears
open and his mouth shut, and he had quite a
streak OF luck, besides, from the goof, So that
at the end Of his first week ~atlaying odds he found
that he'd averaged a cleanup Of about 5000 a
day. You couldn't see him then without sending
up your card, he was so vast and heap much.
lie was thinking Of going down Dixicway to make
a bid on the Belle Meade farm, and, by the end
Of his third week on the block, when he had run
his $4,000 into a BIT more than $40, OnO, he ives
probably the hauehticst ga,abo on this side Of
the Rocky Mountains.
"Onr day-it was al the beginning of his fourth
week at bookmaking a duck who had n string
Of good ones-of their kind chasing the Glouccs
ter will % thc-wisp for the poolroom purses. invited
himself 10 take dinner with the OK grocer with the
streak Of luck, Aftcr they had stored dhc feed
away at the high riding bookmakcr's philadel-
phia hotel, the man with the st1rg lrancd back
in his chair and sprung what he had in mind.
He mentioned the star Splinter Of his string
YOU know, Of course. said he. conadcnually,
10 the OK grogn', that that uag car eat I'D any
horse down here at three quarter rs OF a mile. He'd
never he beaten ut that distance II We let him out
every time he went to the post to race. But, Of
course, II I'd let him win every time out. there
would never he on. pncr ON him. He'd be a
/ to 20 shot every time he got n lend pad on, and
I'm no, going down the line on that kind Of prices.
Nc.thcr ON | running nay string over at Glouces.
ter for hyeicnic reasons. Pc-crivco'
Tho rev bookic perceive.
well this oily Gcczcr went on. that horse
is entered in q siN-furlong sprint 10 morrow, as
YOU know. He'll probably be an even money
%favoritr. He'll lose.
"Hc will, hey said the new man on the block.
suspicious like, That's darncd good e. Won
to tell me, But you're not telling me that for
your health, either. He's going To lose, CHI
Yep, he'll lose, rrpr1tcI TN, smooth owner.
Now, you're a pretty nice Young fellow. art
you' ! like you Indr stand.
I'm, said the OK grocer. what's your g-ait,
anyhow
We'll, as | say, that skate Of minc is goiri.
10 lose said the confidential owner once more
VOW, yol Smv tins thousand collar william,
dnn you Well, | want you to Mkc lust a thou.
SAM d"!Iar worm "f my horse u win for my
account see, whoa YOU make your book on thnt
race. lie may t' aS good as = Ia |, bu, he's gong
10 lose anyhow You SEQ, | Just want 10 p,cS
upon ho,r't dollar or 50. You take this $1,000
Of the suckers. money for me- on you, book. and
your reward II ~ in knowing what's going 10
happen. You can huNch up the prcc, sce? is
"Now, this locked like a pretty good thing ia
the eroccrymau. Il looked Ike taking candy
from % chlld. II that owners horse WASH going
,o'gcr. IT looked like a clnch tina; he Wasn't going
t. nHH any Thousand dollar bills on th2 game
50 The new bIoEic told IT," ownc. that he was ON.
To-" HIS $1,000, aud figured on the bounding
he was going 10 give IN" talent the next d,V'
lie chucHlcd To him,r!i when he other books
o%iE laid even money iSains, the SpnUirr when
tn h@tt.rE on, a, race began tho next afternoon
They wouldn't do . thing but falI over ,bcn
selves To Law A long miro If they kp.u M, I "a,
that the tGvo'ltr Is goius; 10 ktr'lop. unused the
cxgfocrrymhn,-hC walird me me whole spiel
hitrwaW--a he laid ; to against the sprintrr's
chances on h.s slatr. Th' other bookirS o,cr
his way looked as if they thought he was wheriy,
but Hr "aly CHnl,'a Whole los insidG Of hun.
i" whc-e / get the big end ofit' ~
~" ltA'l ne" minLcs after be- had started his
saic, h. had taken IL the hprsn owners Si0JO
bati!rd toEctath!S book at these 1g Urcs. Said he IA
hlnlslt, m lust tan myself on tn.s watermelon :
t"G by the tine the horses went to ne pos, he
had taken in 10000 Of the public money at ? To- /
on that morse that was gong 10 losc, and ne knew
iilt he'd BE- Just 1000 To- n" Suo,..
'0ltS' YOU chops Gor next. When the
horses got away IN" Sk0t" that tho rxgroCrr
h.! laid his whole $1,000 against walkrIIIn on
a." hit ,lfi'ch lengths To The good in a buck.
Jump, u" ToS un4"r twenty wraps all The way
The new bookic paid out his $40. 900, bought
= Gay rtpc ,aGd an eight cent package 81 punk
toharG'i aad ""Nt nu' OF %bus',,csS, e.4 he's teen
N re- FiaN'' - ANNfN hin IN III
a week 10 get contiguous 10 the fact hat tho men
VINO collected his 10000 lIcrr the .,ulro'n nun.
IS commissioners, but when h. won't puuring
IN" "wncr had removed his sting from tilow'
'r'"r, ana was taAiaS q lulo vir,cr crliSo
~ the fcilcra IN III" Aegean Sea-. Ru, il Clnu-
Giis aF.a,iS Sy'i ri i' %nSv u" Ro "F :, s;, 9rd lNorc's a con
'iIrrrs another chap that know Of who's
rc"u smoking unfraGrlnt tobIrcu ~ a Mn, for
= GOOD niHni year OH account II an uuur &c tr,,l
trEl, sail urc 81 the other H.. 'm"n n, thr tebI,
hui ne rNSn a new man at the C1mc. a.,
Wa' al oI EmN So mitch of au old inner that
II was up 10 HIM to know that. once having mai,
g. never ihr part of " dom To throw hlm r,,i
boa-d On IN" presumption that he's a dcad one
. tri InlIoNcfS, as YOU fellows all know have n
hhb.i"i f~rSurfrCt nE them S",NcS NJ Inopporturr mo.
ll.hlr "lI'l II seems thai th"V Grc 80 lccclv bu-
&C.. ilat they'll never struggle 10 the .np %, In.
grp"'I' "shiE, 1hd when they do run a shoe
tongue III To- n tan yafd they are more than lab,
- S't hunk with former pals who hay We cIst th,m
ASA ' IN ~" hnu' 81 auvCrSlty. Now, il Is y M
tct,1Hy dangerous think for arv man culn,r. I
Nlut td'lnS lubo hCSlN"S" Nth u Jockey. ur,,r
h'hri uI n ut oi Jockey thmpTrug that didr't
srl wi sooner or later. to the Disadvantage az
M l;1hh tlat uld the co-rupung. gLcss We
un.ri; rulcd Of for crooked VOL nav: Eccn,,,
'NhrtIhg Pensioners IN ih" hands " the mon
IcS.nuslt," r. their downfall fo' long Stretch.
al year, me story | have in mtnd Is 81 n iuc.ry
Nn", "hu" b" WASH I SIT down through follow
~ tHc directions u' the ~ he did bus,
mrs. WIN. wa treated with Cnaract"ustir m,ou
f'SS ny The later " hen he was IN BgainSt IL nvir,-
=, ~ accident, and the way tn!O lock ro, "y,p
WV, hl" !'mcr tTmprrc' was unique.
lou ~. r'mcnt- The boy kclicyp he wasn't
cN Guy q boy AZ the TIM" tins tGIlC haprrurd
nc "h'a man oi twenty two or So, which psuhl.