The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-05-06
WON HIS Pile
even IF LATE.
Washington Mans Good Luck
at DsnnIag's Meeting.
WAS GIVEN DEAD SURE TIP.
Forgot 10 Pacs Bet, but Took Horse In
The hiIl Race and Was
a Winner.
WAS GIVEN DEAD SURE TIP.


mine who is so fond Of seeing thorough.
bred horses run that ne generally has Ia
practice great economy for couple OF
months after each Eennngs meeting,
hunted me up on Sunday afternoon last
for the purpose OF telling me that he had
good thing watermelon all ready
10 slice.a. hog slsughtering with the ak
all sha.pened,' and other queer things
Ike that In one of The races on Mon
days card" said ell-known real es-
tate agent To a WashrRton Star man.
:" Good thing, eh?' 1 said. skeptically
What makes you think It's a good
thing?
Know fellow that sleeps with tho
horse and eats out OF the same manger
with him. replied my enthusiastic friend
Best thing of the meeting. Fact You
don't have 10 believe IL, hut 1 know IT.
Now, Mondays my hIsy day. and
won't have chance TO get out TO the
track until about the lssu race. ~ az all
But. as you told me youh intended going
out tomorrow, / want yopl Go take "a lit
tie money out for me and nut IL down on
the good thing
THE good thing is Honolulu. and he's
going to run I'm the NTH race. Here's "A
fifty, and | wish you'd get down on Hon
olulu just as soon the betting opens,
for the nag is going TO be heavily played.
and the opening pricell just about be
chewed up.
''Well. l don't like la bet another mans
money, but ! couldn't very well refuse
the commission, and 1 took the fifty
and told him that Ia 90 the best / could
10 get IL on Honolulu at the first price
offered by the boolIos.
II got to thinking about my friends
good thing after ho LEFT me. and finally
j determined To risk "a few dollars on
Honolulu myself on the following after
noon
The tide of business that set I'm on me
as soon as l struck my office ON Monday
morning was 80 overwhelming that for
got all about my promised visit 10 thc
race track until after 1 o'clock. and then
4 was lunching with gentleman with
whom I've been negotiating a somewhat
important deal for a number of months. |
IRKSoME DELAYS OF BUSINESS.
'"rhis gentleman was I'm "a talkative hu- |
NOR AM as he happened To be a man OF |
rather austere manner of life I couldn't \
excuse myself by telling him that / |
wanted to break away TO go 10 the races, /
nor could plead a business engagement.
Cor the engagement / was then filling
With MIN had been made two weeks i'm
advance
We sat there At the luncheon table
Gnu nrtriF % closk, and men, when he
did finally give me my liberty, I rushed
over 20 the office to get my topcoat and
tell my young men that / wouldn't be
back during the afternoon.
II found my office fairly cluttered with |
folks who wanted 10 see me about this |
that, and the other-chieny the wives of
tenants who had dropped i'm with set
countenances to demand spring repairs |
II saw at once that If 1 contrived to
get 60 the races at all that afternoon /
wouldn't reach the track until at least
half OF the program had had been run
of.
II reflected rather w,stfuliy about that
horse Honolulu, whose name had lin
gered With me, and then the fifty that
my friend had given me 10 bet on the
animal suddenly shot into my mind
II knew that if tho morse won, and NJ |
long odds. without my having been out
at the track to get his fifty down, he |
would give me the nnournful, reproachful
gaze for several months to come
II mad 10 talk TO the people who were
waiting TO talk TO me, however, and It
was considerably after 4 o'clock before
j showed the last of them out.
II knew that the race in which the |
Honolulu horse was entered was due TO |
co9ne off at o'clock. and so l rushed |
out, hailed hanson cab. and told the |
driver to gallop me out to the Bennings |
track as II all the mounted cops on the !
fcrce were chasing his fare.
THE cabman took the side streets for
IL as Ions as we were in the city limits
and the way he got his horse over the
ground was a caution. outside the city
limits he put the steed at a run. and at ,
exactly III minutes after o'clock hop
ped out or the cab al the Bennings gate, |
purchased my ticket and rushed in
II saw as soon as ! got In the grounds | +,
that the horses were prancing at the
post, and skedaddled as fast as my legs
could carry me for the betting ring TO !
Hnx. frfa dfe n "A. 4
fifty of my own on the Honolulu nag
GETS THERE TOO LATE. =
'T had just reached the betting shed Y
when the yell, They're off" went upsnd =
then the best could do was TO mop my :
forehead and humble things 10 myself /,
and watch the race and root against Hon :
olulu. :
81 saw two horses rushing down the | \
stretch neck and neck, ana when heard | :
the crowd howl Honolulu wins by a /,
stanchions OF tho betting shed. r
Right At that point, however, my at I
tention was attracted by a terrific whoep | 1.
right behind me, and 1 wheeled around L
TO SEQ my friend engaged in Jumping on I,
his SOFT hat and yelling like a Comanche | I.
lie saw me at the Same instant, and he | Il
hoped on mo with a bear hug, and he II
did 90 much internal chuckllns that ~ +
was about two minutes before he could \
speak Z,
II was afraid that he'd be laughing X
or the other side of his couutenance | a
when I told him that 1 hadn't bet his
hftv on Honolulu. but I had 10 tell him
10 my surprise he didn't look chasrlned a
a little bh N
4" It's all right ne said. Il knew that ! II
You weren't on the grounds, for I was r
able to get out TO the truck IL
nref ND Il al 4
where for you. and, not fndins you. knew v
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