The sun., 1900-06-17
HIS RANDOM TIP WON OUT.
BUT NR BILL BOSHER HADN'T A
net ON HIS OWN GUESS,

..,u =. w.r,.d Him the Gratitude ana "A.
,,,,.t,on Of a Lot Of Chance Acqsaintsuess.
and Furnishes Another Good Story Of
the Things That Sometimes Happen.
The pon. Bill Bosher made Q hyina trip 10
Trov lsst weak. and because Of his visit TO tho
CITY sopoe fifteen dead game Hudson River
.nor.. ware made richer by many dollars.
ytil want made the Victim Of q oopfidepco
oame or ANYTHING Of that kind In fact Il didn't
coat him ANYTHING TO increase the bank rolls
q. the s,o,ts. but his reward was the undy.
ine resard-to say nothing Of admiration
~ q. Sne a line Of bull-necked, red-cheoked.
strined-shirtad "sents" as over patronised
a hoorm.ksr Mr.. Bosher Is q little bit sore
ox,,r the faot that he didn't get In on his own
GOOD thing and he looks somewhat ashamed
"a he tells the story Of what happened, but Il
va. az r>narkahie that he thinks Il ought IA
N. addod IN current sportipg history.
II eeenns that the Hon Bill had a hurry caIl
N Trov on A matter OF importance and without
waiting IN Get topether ANYTHING but a satoh-
al mil of ynost necessary clothing and toilet
articles. took a train for the capital. The trip
Was without incident until Hudson was reached
Now Hudson Ia n game little town. and CON
tains almost as many sports 10 tho square inch
as New York. But the laws of Hudson are
not a. elastic as they are In Albany and New
York. and to satisfy his craving for a game
OF chance. the Hudson man generally goes
over to the former place, Il being heap sight
nearer home than the metropolis. At Hudson,
five Young men of pronounced type got on
the train. and sat at the other end Of the car.
They were the real thing in the sporting line,
which they showed by putting their feet upon
all unoccipied chairs and stealing occasional
naps. Bill Bosher, being something Of a sport
himself. gave the bunch look over and guessed
that they were going up 70 Albany 10 bot their
bank rolls In Johnny Maok's poolroom. Hav-
Ing summed up the situation in this way. Bill
lost interest In the crowd and returned TO the
reading Of his paper. Just about this time
one Of the sports got his eye on Bill. Now Mr..
Bosher IA rather short and stout, with . big
round eood-natured face He IA one Of those
men who always look "a though they were
about TO burst forth into hearty laughter.
and ne II not man To pass in any crowd un-
noticed Bill might be a church deacon or .
a sport, for all the casual observer could tell
OF him A a matter Of fact he IA neither. al
though he takes flyer on the horses once In
a while. and Ia a familiar figure at the race
tracks when there are big events on the card.
Bill was unconscious OF the scrutiny Of the
sport for some time In the meantime the
man Ind said something 10 his friends and the
whole crowd began looking at Bill. Then Mn
Bo.her glanced down the car and made up his
mind that there must be something the mat
,.r ,,,,h man uho attracted an much attain
Wi WIN man WY "' eo ".N
ton He looked himself over carefully but
couldn't f,nd A button OF anywhere, or any
thing else awrv. Meantime the sports kept
u'hs eAa' ""'s' ' 0 'p 80
sizing him up and discussing him In low Wills
pers Bill tried every method known to dt-
cover what there was about him that wss In
oo'oA "n". ~ ~ -
went back to his paper and the sports kept
right up with their conversation, treating
Just before the train pulled into Albany
Mr. Kosher took out his watch, saw that il
was nearly half past o'clock and made up his
| mind that a. he had lot OF time on his hands.
not to 60 to Troy until later in the afternoon.
What to do in the meantime was not much OF
a problem TO Bill. for Johnny Mack Is genial
host and one can pass the afternoon pleasantly
in his place without putting down single bet.
in o s the meantime there was va tss greatest es
pe pulling out his watch seemed to stir them up
a bit, and when Bill got up 70 leave tne uain
the whole crowd was on his trail at once, the
man who had first noticed him almost walk
ing on ms hees sa. was pe,p'eaea ,9 % ou, os,ns .,
a patient man decided TO walt and see II time
would not reveal the mystery. He walked
| over TO Johnny Nack's closely followed by
the sports and when the poolroom was reached
| he noticed 10 his CONSERVATION that the sports
| had pick ed I'M several friends on the yay and
| now numbered about ten
| Once in the poolroorn Bll went 10 Quiet
| corner and began a careful study Of the en-
| easy range Of him, and Whatever the secret
| was thev let in about 1--WE more of their friends,
| the entiye ffteen keeninr nm eve on the Hon
Nj Kosher. 10 his intense disgust ne waiked
| 10 Tho other and N The room and nfteen noIrs
| ~ sves foiloved him Fifteen man shifted
ho;r nos,tinna In order not 10 ioea siobt ~ hin,
and ~ n minute Bill had notions OF going
over and banging the man who had discoyered
him brtxeen H tho eves '''i fSIt he thoucht bet
nr nun 81 n ana fnsy hscanc 40 m consmnsd with
our,os,tr 70 tnnw uSst was tbs matter with
.h,t NO daciG.d ~ r,sv the n in1 ou, WIN
NM "u,rry r, IN hows tbsrx're eo,nc ~ tho nos,
in q n,in;,te W. ecslisd ont tbe msn at the hoard
Our Our of ySt rbc c1roer of his T eve B saw
mn reu i a a,u .he,t y, op pne "a ypls h
aan au 10 n''r, work toward him slowly he fnally
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