The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-09
WINNING TIP ON WAITER.
Man From Country Visits Races and
Plays in an Approved Manner.
Chicago Inter ocean,

New York, Aug 3O-"I had a very
laughable experience during this meet
ing" said a bookmaker's clerk at the
Brighton Beach track to a party of
friends the other night on the way home
in the trolley. ''You see wife's folks live
up the state, and generally once or twice
during the year some CT them come
down to pay US a visit. Well here a
coupie of weeks ago my father-in-1aw
came down on business and bright and
early one morning he bobbed up at the
house and announced 10 me on the quiet
that he was going to the track with me.
L didn't like the idea much for my wife
was opposed TO such a. plan, and often
told me so. Srill L saw no way out of 1t
ana made up my MIND to MAKE the best
OF q bad bargain and take the old gentle
man off with the promise that he would
never lei! that he mad been there with
me- We had no trouble. in getting away,
for the old gentleman helped matters
along by telling my wife a whopping lie
right at the start about having business
to attend to that would keep MIN away
all day long Having faith in her fathers
honesty, my wiIe swallowed this and we
started off together.
ION my way down my father-in-l law
asked me so much about the horses that
were TO run and how to go about the
placing of a bet that L half suspected
that he had some other motive in view
than mere visit TO see the races run
L limited as much to him, but he pre-
ten6ed not to understand me and | had
TO d-oD the subject. When We finally
arrived at the track | fixed him a good
seat, got him a programme and told him
to stay right there, that if l got d
chance to get away for a few minutes I
would know where to find him. Thus
fixed, as | thought, for a nice afternoon,
/ left him and went down TO work
Things got real busy in short order and l
soon forgot all about my charge in the
grand stand when l was reminded of him
in a funny way. One of the messengers
who place bets came to my stand, handed
a $40 bill he nl1cRd a horse
called Waiter. saying as he did so that
the old hayseed who was making the
one The reference to the hayseed
brought back to my mind my father-in-
law, although at the time | did not IN
senger's remark. The bet recorded
called for $120 to $40, and smiled, for
agreed with the messenger that the horse
was dead one, as he had called it.
The race was run and Waiter simply
played with his field and won about as
he pleased. Still this fact didn't worry
me much, except that our book only had
that one bet to pay on Waiter, and said
to myself III have a chance now to run
up and see how the old gentleman is get
ting on. The boy soon turned up for the
money, and after having some fun with
him about the haySeed whom he thought
picked dead ones, L went in search of my
rather-in-law- 1 just reached the stand
in time to see the messenger hand him
the money l had paid to him only few
minutes before was OdnpI0unueu'
and showed IL clearly, but the old man
only SrlnneQ and said. cOulun neIp
that slide Charley; everybody was ask
ing me to play it, and 1 thought | would,
and I'm id glad l did, for that $40 will
fix things up real nice at home this winter
when things are slack Even after all
this l was at a loss to understand Just
what he was driving at, for L couldn'
imagine the old gentleman playing
horses. I took him down to the stand
with me, and there he explained how
after L left he walked around the stand
and met a number of cOlored men, all OF
whom he described as being very polite
to him, and he said that every one OF
them came up TO him and IN NICE
friendly way said: Waiter, Waiter
Waiter, sir
:. Now. I read that little book you
and knew that a horse named Waiter
was going to start and I thought that
as all those coiored men were KIND
enough 70 tell me about IT, why, L would
mako bet just once
L vas quite anxious to learn VINO the
kind colored men were, and Wnen TOOK
him back TO the grand stand he 2olnted
out several of them to me- and l. near
had a fit. They were walters. and had
held him up just as they would any
other man with their. waiter, wafer,
sir / told him who they were ana what
they We're and what they were there
convince him of the truth Finally he
began to see through the whole thlnS,
and we both had a good laugh br1gnt
and early next morning my father-ln-iaW
started horce. and I'll bet by this tlme
he has started new barn or something
of that sort with the $12O he won on the
tip the kind colored men gave him.