The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-19
WOMEN KEEN IN BETTING.
APPEAR TO PICK WINNING HORSES
BY SIMPLE INTUITION.

They Disdnin the Tips That Govern
the Flyers at work and Draw own
COncIusions-Genera Honest, but
Some Try to Fleece Shrewd Book
makers.
From the New York Sun.
1.-THE majority of the women in the
stand used to be dollar pikers, but
they're not any more" said a book
makers runner who had been laying
odds in the race track grand stands for
many years. 1.-The women of to-day
who go after the horse game are dis
posed to get down for keeps on the
runners that they like
Plenty of them are rsAve nervy with
their money, particularly If the mon
ey's velvet, than some fellows I can
mention who've got regulations as
at the track the other day who has a
thoroughbred manner of going the dis
lance.
Tommy Burns, the jock, had told
her that he was going to have the leg
w Ol lOuI VI luttn ludL AFTERNOON ana
that he didn't see any reason why she
shouldn't put them all over. Some of
these mounts of Burns looked like i'm
possibilities at that.
The chorus woman put down $40 on
the first mount of the Whitney rider
and Burns horse walked in. She
strung all of her winnings along on
Burns next one, an outsider, and the
horse romped home.
Burns next one looked like such a
no-good in the three-horse field that
he went to the stick the raw recruit at
IL to l. The chorus girl had all of her
winnings on the two previous races
down on that one and Burns horse
tow-roped the field and made the to
favorite look sick.
She Had Good Nerve.
Burns fourth horse was the ia
vor1te. The horse was a natural fa-
vorite on last years form. but looked
high in flesh to the paddock sharps
and not ready. The chorus woman's
escort was pretty good in sizing up
horse by his looks and he got back
to the stand as she was handing her
$1,000 winnings over TO one of the
stand commissioners to be put down on
the Burns favorite.
You'd better fold that bundle away
for to-day he said to her. L don't
think Tommy expects to bunch this
one home. The horse is hog fat and
needs at least three races before he'll
do. Think of $1,000 worth of millin-
cry and let this one run for Hennessy.'
"She had her nerve along with her,
however, and wouldn't listen. The
whole 81 200 went down on Burns
horse-and you know it's a track axiom
that Burns doesn't have much luck
with faVOrites
This one was never in the hunt and
finished in the ruck The girl wasn't
little bit peevish over the outcome
and in the old days I've seen women
faint over the loss of a 81 bill She
tossed it off with a laugh and said
she'd have to buy another dream book
The sticking a. pin in the pro-
gramme system is one that the women
| bettors passed up long ago Nor dc
they go after the horses that look
| handsome or cute or Just lovely as
so many of TENN used to.
-Four women bettors out of five
| want to have look at the horse they
have in mind to play before they pu
| their money down. An intelligent wo
man has pretty fine eye for a rao,
horse-thy're much better In that re
spect than most men. They seem to b.
able intuitively to perceive when
horse is dry or tucked up or stale, ainC
for this reason they very rarely lane
on horse that's liable to prove dead
one from any of these causes.
scorched the BooIxnekers.
1.-THE grand stand women gave the
ring savage scorching only last week
because of the advantage they DOS
sessed by their constant presence in
the stand during the afternoons rae
ing. 1t was three horse race In
which they scored heavily.
Bonner, one of Pittsburg Phirs
horses that hadn't been out since last
year, when he was a whole lot of a
Splinter, was in with a pair that he
seemed, according to the dope, to out
class by the weight of a bale of hay.
These two were Musidora and Cryptic
| gram.
THE plungers ate up Bonner's open
| ing price, to 2, and battered 1t down
| to shade worse than l to at post
time. Even Pittsburg Phil, for some
reason that nobody could afterward
understand, considering the shape his
horse was in, bet thousands on Bon
ner. Musidora, a platter that doesn't
amount to much, averaged about 2 to
in the betting, and Cryptogram. with
Burns up, had II to / against his
| chance.
but when the three horses were
brought out for their warm-ups the
women in the stand didn't need half
an eye to see that Bonner was in bad
shape, whereas Musidora in her pre-
liminary showed a distinct inclination
to loaf on her exercise boy. Cryptic
gram, the outsider on the contrary,
went through his warm-up canter in
race-horse style, and the women went
to Cryptogram hook. line and sinker,
NJ t x1-ffI !, a M Ia
lessness of his chance as betokened
by the long odds.
mot a scattering few, not even doz-
ems or scores, but literally hundreds of
the women in the stand tapped them
selves, as the saying is. to get on Cryp-
togram, and not because Tommy
Burns was up, either. but simply be-