The Butte inter mountain., 1901-09-21
BURNS TIP DROPPED
A GOOD THING THAT FAILED TO
DELIVER THE MERCHANDISE.
MONEY BURNED LIKE STRAW
Had the Pool Room Proprietors Pos
sessed a Few Yards of Pittsburg
n Phil's Nerve They Could Have
Swamped the Crowd.

There was something doing yesterday
in the rooms in which pools are sold on
eastern horse races and had the pro-
prietors of the places possessed the nerve
Of "Pittsburg Phil' they would have
cleaned up all kinds of money and lots
Of it. There was "tiD' out on horse
known as Pretorious. It was one OF
Burns tips and is said to have been
hot from the wire. Pretorious is racing
at Chicago and men who keep posted
on the sprinting qualities Of cayuses as
sert that he can go some when he de-
sires to do SO. According to Hoyle and
few other authorities. he was out yes
terday for regular killing. Burns had,
it is alleged, received a message right
from the horse itself that it would win.
The message advised him to get down"
good and hard. Burns is not a selfish
man. He has been in Butte about
year and has received from the east
some first-class information on the
horses running there. This information
he has impaired to few Of his inti-
mate friends and they have profited by
it. He has proffted by it himself. for it
is said he has won about $4,000 in
Butte in the last ten months. But once
in while Burns tips go down with
thud.
Shortly before the Pretorious race yes
terday it became known that Burns had
a tip on some horse in the race, but
only his friends and their friends and
their friends friends knew the identity
of the plug that was to do the running
and make it's field look like band OF
water-cart pullers. These friends and
their friends blocked the avenue to the
betting windows of the pool rooms be-
fore the odds from the track arrived
they were in line to do business on the
l.rst betting.
"Pretorious, 10 to II" exclaimed the
opera ,ors, as the telg5raphic instru-
ments licked the news.
In an instant Burns friends and their
friends We're showing $50 and $100 bills
at the ticket writer's. The air was full
of money; not "piking" money, but
large money.
''Give me 800 worth of Pretorious!"
shouted a dozen voices simultaneously in
Sam Martins room
Sam smiled. He knew in an instant
that something was uD. He took the
closest 800 and examined it to see that
it was all right. 1t looked good to him,
but he refused to accept more than $40
of it at odds of 10 to /.
Under ordinary circumstances Pretori-
Gus would have been made 80 to 1, but on
that occasion Martin put up the same
aodds that came from the track.
Make PretOrious to l." said he to the
board marker.
He then accepted few $50 and $100
bets. The money poured in on the horse
0ld the odds were carved to 21a to l..
In the NJ. and NJ. they were showed to
the enormous proportions of to S, after
having come in from the track to / on
the second betting. The scramble for
tickets on Pretorious was great and the
anxiety of the pool room proprietors
greater.
They're Off" yelled the operators.
A deathly silence pervaded the roomN
Ross Fame in the lead, South Trim
BILE second and Pretorious third. Pre-
torious leads at the quarter by one
length"
long breath and held it and mopped the
perspiration from his forehead.
Pretorious leads into the stretch with
J. v. Kirby second. All, there Kirby
wins; South Trimble is second and Ross
Fame third"
Burns tip had finished out of the
money.
During the balance af the day there
were many long faces and fiat purses
in the rooms, but the countenances of
the proprietors were short and the bank
roll fat.
Had Pretorious won the house would
have lost $10.O00." said Sam Martin. aft
er the race was over.
But had he accepted all the money
offered, the house would have won that
much or more.