The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-08

aroun on one prop, or tink tn starters
a rlngmaster wit a whip, or lay down
an play dead in tn stretch. Hewitt
zillo, hey? Good ting. hey? Well, say,
If youse has as hard time beatin' that
one as youse has tryin' T. wrap y'r face
aroun' his name, it's no laundry youse'n
git out a-Satiddy night"
Well, l jes' toll youse, that's all VIII
ie-Know-a-Heap.' said the night man,
starting to walk out, can, it's up /.
youse. I'd like t, see him win a-swing-
IN, wit his mouth open. jes' t fool up
some O these here deadwises," and he
passed out.
These two were not the only ones that
had trouble with the Mexican horse"
Huitzilopochtl, that forenoon There
was quite a tip out, up and down the
Row, on the beast, hut nine-tenths OF
the profound ones who endeavored to
pass the tip along had to abandon their
oral efforts to do it, after many ineffec-
tual trials. and point mutely to the name
among the entries.
The word as to HuitziIopochtlPs
chances was particularly well sown
among the customers of one OF the Park
row poolrooms, and many of the pikers
took chance on the oddly named ami
NAL. But few of them tried to name
their selection. They We're glad to write
out their slips and pass them in at the
screened window, The price against the
horse closed at IL to l. and this partic-
ular poolroom must have been pounded
pretty well at that figure, for the talk
was all about the animal before the race
was run. al saaa s.
What are you playin'? was replied
to by most of the habitutes OF the room
by some sort OF ingenious reference to
Huitzilopochtli
The thru one from the top most
OF them would answer, pointing to- the
card tackled on the wall, or that one
with the bug-house name,' or That
skate with the jaggy John Hancock, or
THE goat with the slop-barrelsky ham
de- or THE mutt with the corped-beef-
hash title or other equally deft eva
sions of the task of actually naming the
horse that had been tipped off
AS for the operator behind the screen,
he lodged the issue in the same way
when he got the flash that the horses
Were off. But all hands cut in front I'M
derstood him.
of at the Duet sang out the teIe-
graph. Ante Up in front, Browndale
second, Brown the Wheats length
away" and then big whoop went up,
and the Huitzilopochtli folks poked each
other delghtedIy, saying. well, he gets
away, anyhow
Judge Wardell at the half went on
the operator .'Browndale second Plat
ter o. Hash a length away and the
Huitzilopochtli rooters poled one another
some more and said He's hangfn' on,
amt hep
j. Wardell in the stretch by head.
Godfrey second, Sidestep the Name a
head away, and then the excitement
in the room became intense ssr all hands
understood that "sidestep the Name
was HuitzilopochtH.
'Hoomp-t winsi shouted the
operator, and then the Huitzflopochtli
people embraced each other and shook
hands and told each other how they mad
knowed it all the time
About four o'clock in the afternoon,
after the race, the night Waterman
dropped in at the beanery where he
worked.
Hello, there said the day shift man
VINO had scorned the Huitzilopochtli tip
in the morning '.Wot youse dom out
O. y'r little wife trundle bunk this time
O. day?''
~oh, nothin'," replied the night man,
grinning and pulling out a huge roll Of
ones and twos. "Jes' fought I'd fan in
an show you some papers I got t. decor.
ate tn shelves in me room w.t.. and
he flashed the roll on the day man who
looked crestfallen.
Say. did that poom-dat- poona- pah
win?' he inquired.
walked in, replied the night. man,
restoring. his roll TO his pocket. @He win
half asleep an noddin'. I git u t 1 FIR
me FIVE SPOT
However, the day shift man was game
well, say, pal he remarked, clatter-
ing the dishes on his arm. don't youse
try t eat that bundle or youse'n choke
t deatt Hewitt-zillo- poockle-treer'