Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-20


visit to the races is invariably lucky. so
the trio was asked to pick out some
horse in the race that was about to tax.
place. Looking over the list he selecte
| Cogmoosey as the name sounded Pc
! culiar.
| Now, I'll tell you what I'll do" said
! his friend, TN put ten-spot on Cog
| moOsey for you. and l want you to
| watch him all through the race. 1t he
| wins you will have $35 coming to you.
You just watch that imaginary line
across from the judges to the timers
stand. and If the horse carrying the
jockey with the red jacket and white
sash passes it first your money has been
wOn."
1t was comical sight to see the
young man undergoing initiation, watch
ing the red and white colors in all the
fiddlings FOR a start at the post. When
| the field broke he lost sight of the horse
! for moment as they wheeled the first
| turn. but soon picked him up as the
bunch reached the first quarter
Down the back stretch Mr.. Tyro had
become Interested enough in the race to
grab chair and jump on top of it to
| get better view. His pantomine mo-
lions as Cosmoosey appeare to drop
| back for moment were much like a
man trying to pull something out of the
atmosphere. As the horses turned for
the final run Cogmoosey's red and white
jacket, forged to the front. causing the
first timer. in fit of enthusiasm. to lose
his balance and over he went in a heap.
Ee was up in an instant. and by stand
ing on tip toe could just see the red cap
hObbng in front With a vise-like grip
or his ticket he rushed about to get d
better view of the race. The crowd be-
gan pulling for Cogmoosey, which was
all that the first offense could about
stand. The passage leading to the or
chestra was open amid through it he flew
like mailman.
Knocking over bass violins, celloz. clar-
inets and horns in his temporary insan-
ity. he leared into the stand used by
Banks Cregier and. getting view of his
coveted red and white about a length to
the good at the last sixteenth. fairly
SIN licked, with eyes bullying out of their
sockets:
Come on. Cogmoosey-oh don't let
him loose (apostrophizing the jockey.
whip him up little. Oh, don't let him
loose. Come-mu mum-on. you, Cog
old boy. Whip him up. whip him up,
win, win,' and amid shouts that would
have made him fit subject for an in
sane asylum the saturine. uninterested
young man, with eyes curveting about in
their sockets and qu.vering hands, show
ed his friend that he had won $25 on the
race.
The friend mentally winked in regard
to this sudden change of front and said
nothing but the very next day one of the
) first arrivals at the track was the in
. oculated twro who was ready to pick the
lock IN the gate if he had found it shut.
No
fascination over humanity as does horse
racing. Almost from time immemorial
it has been the ruling sport of monarchs
and will probably continue so until Fa-
l Their Time calls a halt on things num-
) dane
1t is not generally known that but few
: persons are successful in punting at the
, ponies. Out of 100 that daily visit the
various tracks it is not eXaggeratins TO
say that IS at least quit to the bad OF
the sport. Handicapping is all very good
in it's way, and system play the only
course that should be pursued, but the
; trouble with most players Is thls-ln-
stead of paying more attention to the
systematizing of their wages they give
4 their whole time to handicapper's tab
ulation. The idea to be conveyed is this:
They will be $40 on a good thing that
j. wins, and if they lose few bets Will bet
so to get even There is no regularity
to their placing of bets, and the outcome
can only be in one dl. lection.
n One burning fact that initiates so Of
4 ten against success in this game Is the
i consuming greediness of humanity, and
this it is that scatters systems to the four
I winds of heaven The opportunities tina,
bob up now and then to bring off Kill
I ing draw the system players from theli
Il beaten paths, and, when once a system
S is broken, it is like the plucked rose-ne
3 power on earth can give it vital growth
again.
: One of the bad features of following
II handicapping figures is the fact that few
a of the dopemen ever get to a long
4 and when one of them does stand out II
$ the light they are afraid to tip it. imasin
3 ing that something must have gone
q wrong in thier mathematical calculat
lions. Nine handicappers out of tel
when they figure long-shot and ia
It vorite on fairly close terms, will inva
e riably go to the favorite.
Is A local burner of night oil beat long
e shot last year and was iacketed b!
Il several plungers for not betting NOR
than IS on it. His excuse was this: H
had not idea Of untold wealth to be ex
y tracted out of a race track: most plung
n ers soon reach the end of their tether: h
y was satisfied at the end of the racing
~ year to be between 100 and $4,000 to tn
20 which few ordinary men make in year
good: this was a six-months salar,
his bets were always small, and as the,
:. mostly went on long shots he could STAN
Is a long siege of losses before his BAN
II roll gave out: when long baby scored
II. which will average between eight an
"a ten times a year, his sins were 500
lie wiped out: if he had not adhered to hi
system of small bets a run of ill-luc
would soon wipe him off the face of tn
lc earth; he had tried the system for eigh
l. years and always found it a winner, an
IS as the amount won each year was con
n sidered a good competency he was salts
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