Evening journal., 1901-06-06
HOW SOME WOMEN
PLAY THB RACHS
Two Disguised Men Tell
How the Fair Ones
Won

This is the way some men feel when
they have played the race favOrite at
IL to and have seen him beaten by
horse that a gum chewing woman
in the next row has played at the
pleasing odds of 40 to l.
IL is the woman who is content to-
do things in the time-honored femi-
nine way that has a hunch which is
practically infallible. If she is green
so much the better. She is a law unto
herself then. She doesn't know that
there is such a place as the paddock
and as for the Jockey, he is simply a
combination of colOrs.
The colors are regarded solely from
point Of view of their becomingness
to her When she has selected her
horse, which she does simply on the
strength of the name. her only Qualm
comes when she finds that the Jockeys
colors are not compatible with her
complexion And if the horse lcses. it
is that alien coloring which is respon-
ible. She feels that she deserves her
loss for having tempted fate with those
hues of horror.
Two rather dejected-looking men
rode down from Morris Park on Thurs
day in the first train after the races
were over. The policemen up there
call this the losers train. The winners
who go at he end Of the last race 10
get their money don't catch this train
They come along later. But these two
men had evidently had nothing in the
line of winnings TO detain them, and
were on hand in time TO get seats, into
which they sank gloomily. Then one
of them remarked out of the depths
of his thoughts:
Those fool women played the win
ner every time but one"
"A fool for luck" sighed the ether.
"A fool? Why, you never heard
anything so idiotic as the way they
did You were down in the paddock
getting reliable information On sure
things while they did their picking.
and YOU don't know anything about it.
You'd better have saved all that pers-
piration and stayed within earshot OF
these women. A sure thing hadn't a
show If they bet against it, Do You
know how they did?n
shut their eyes and stuck a hatpin
into the program and bet on the horse
they stuck, l suppose. That's about
the way a woman does"
| We'll, these women didn't do il
II 4
pin They hadn't been sitting behint
me five minutes before l found cut twC
things, that if ! had had one grain o
sense, ought to have mademe egOoutanC
borrow every cent Of money | coulC
raise and then play whatever they did
found out that they were as greer
as grass and were going to play fo1
fun. Take my advice and If you evel
come across a woman who doesnt
know a trCtter from a buffalo anC
doesn't care whether she wins or loses
follow her play and you will weal
| diamonds.
That's rare combination; becaus'
as a general thing a woman feels
worse about losing a dollar on a be
than she would over having a diamond
tiara stolen from her. These two in
nocent creatures had evidently tkrowI
discretion to the winds. They ha,
said goodbye to caution and wer
perfectly prepared to see every dolla
they bet go TO the bcol1mal1ers. Their
were going to be seven of these dol
lars; one for each race That mad
$3.50 that each woman had put int
the pool and they told each other wit
evident sincerity that they didn't car
if they lost it all. All
That was where l ought to hav
started cut and borrowed right an
left and made a procession Of mysel
in their wake But just felt sorry TO
them and really wondered if / cOuldn
manage to give them tips on a few G
the sure things you were picking Ou
in the paddock.
We'll, they decided to take turn
picking out the horses and l must sa
a they decided on the first turn fairl
, enough. The one whose initial wa
nearest to the head of the alphabe
got the first choice and then they WEI
over the names of the horses togethe
"TrillO was the favOrite IN the be
p ting. but. heavensl they didn't kno
or care about that. The one who Wa
q to choose the horse disposed of Tg'il
l as If il we're a rank outsider. She he
! itated over Ginki. GinH. you knON
\ with odds of $50 to /. She said thi
If he had been named Dinky she ce
n tainly would have bet on him. We
4 it was lucky for her he wasn't, b
r. cause there was a good eight lengtl
between him and the winner.
when she got to Blueaway she vi
n simply tickled to death. She said tn
u blue was her color, and she knew 81
h ought to bet on that horse. But 81
Thought it over and finally 81
said she'd take Lucky Star. becau
10 she could say something to make n
y lucky one for her. And, sure enoug
y when the horse came out she said:
a Star light, star bright,
70 First star, I've seen tonight
wish ] may, / wish l might
Have the wish I wish tonight
81 suppose she wished then that b
horse would win and the blamed thi
NJ did. by headl They co0ared SS
~ that race. and If that isn't putting
re premium On idiotic superstition
don't know what would do It,
= Then the other one tried her Ia
on the second race. First she thous
she'd take o Hagen, because she kn
I'd a girl by that name, and then s
be said no, she'd take Honolulu. becaI
she was perfectly crazy 10 get th'
j. some time. don't know whether sh'
We get there, but Honolulu did, and Il
IS @ss got 81 for their one.
- ssXVhpn the other one tried her Ii