The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-06-08
IT'S HARD TO BREAK HOODOO
tNu Ski STRF IN a0RF ifkfIi
10 HFtT s1oD utk.

IN his iuirts ca,i-sl ~ five wirr.ng favorttes
After dinner b" DROPPED into a faro bank
~ as' n ~" cuud get hack some e he
none II bought sSoo wprth of checks,
druppsSt sbou half ~ them and ben began
to play mrky.' winning three successive
bets.
A sitter" Who had been watching for
this shin - h"S promptly whiprsd q ten
dollar bin out - hi- pocket. bought a stack
81 white che~kr and began - put down bets
50 ~ To follow the hookuaAer ard share
In hiS luca On the first ,uru thsr'rft"r
the boOkmsk,r lost n bet Then he got
a -stnnd-of." then lost n bet lmr'di-
atcly hc took up all lis bets, lighted a fresh
cigar. and started q conversation on "N-
traneous matters with another gamtl"r
The sitter, ! II without a gside, booked
up IN rcrpl'xity The bookmaker inter
pretod the hook
i can carry your weight said he
Your. too unlupky I'm not supersti-
tious. hut | wouldn't set out to break n
mans run Of hard luck. II might break
me doing IL. There's no limit to hard
luck I've seen YOU over NJ the track
the whole meeting and IN het you've never
had To call vour badge number TO a cashier
Five lost twenty-seven straight bets
aein the horses. murnhled tho hard !uck
man.
-You NAV loss twcnty--even more
said the Uookmakcr. The law 81 chance
Ia as crrstic as the law Of p-rentag- Is sure,
! wouldn't ask anything softer than 10
ha W YOU playing faro here tonight sndto
he coppenng your bets. ! saw a wise old
gambler who ran a place In Clark street
Chicagn. break a lucky player more than
once by putting a hoodoo On his trail. This
was how II worked:
There was n race,rack plunger In the
house one night and he had eaten an - ECO
hole IN the hank roll. They shifted dealers
on him two or thr~e times. but he went right
sh cad winning. Then the boss called me
outside.
You see Henncssy IN there said he.
Well. he's lssn eating out Of the silver
drawer for three months. Once n q while
h. ge,- some one to stake him TO a stack
Of checks. but I've couldn't win II he put the
cards ia the box himss'lf, he's ~ settled
IN Jonah street. Give him this twenty
and tell him half he WINS IL his Don't
Ie, him know il came from me. Tell him
10 follow Ia" lucky man
We'll, Heuncssy strung along with the
hunger lie was almost broke at the
end VI tho deal I nodded to the dealer
To give him another stack. In three deals
he was broke and the plunger had losi hack
$500 Of his winnings, 50 he quit. hNen
a lucky s'f"ah WON '"''N wv '"' "'s"'
81 genuine hard luck Nv" lost twenty
~ ven straight bets ON IL" horSs lnys"H
TIP at Fort Ere three YEAR, ~ 1--WE or
six hundred so-callcd race horses were eat
ing up tie stables The owners were
mostly all broke and aghiing Tor the $50
purse. tn" lrtting mig was run 10y "a
syndiCRte, and II a horse oE'r-i al 10 Ia !,
why three dollhrs and a half would drive
the price To : TO IL Some OF w" oWt"r~
60, together finally and W. iNcd up n niue
deal, which was nhaiced by a 'oupfc OF
BunaIo mon.
run ON LaiUr Day II was a four-furions
dash. and In on. Of the harms was a MY
called BLACK Vigil, who could run nan a
mile IN ~ whcn IL" morning dew wa on
the grass She had never shown any pubic
form. and with ten other horses III ia" fac~
would command a. good a. 10 To ! we
thought. To frame IN" thins iish' We
asreeSd TO bs' all the money away from the
track. for II she was hacked there the price
would t~ cut in all the poolrooms where
we PLAYED her.
At that time Covington vas the easiest
place IN Viii, b to get down money on lama
dian circuit races. Right over the r1ver
from Cincinnati was a street crossing with
four corncrs, and a Oig open poolroom on
each corner II was about the only In
dus,ry 81 the town and IN" Chief Of Police
could Away. IT, ound Ia a chair on a RAISED
platform In the coolest corner Of the big
gee, rpom
went : CCvingtoufo plac" the money
Black Vigil opened up AT 10 to |, and !
-,rolIcd around putting Atty each way on
her They cut the price ,o s. then Ia
a and a. on ard IN. Ic,i | got fer the lest
s2On was 5 to S II Was more money
than rad | eer laia on a hong shot al Coying-
ton since tho day old Juds" lurrlnRei
showed q? on in the window and told them
20 put n On straigh, on a 40 to ! shot.
which | NAV saw thew didn't do. not having
sso 90 to ir, agains, "a snidr mcctrack
snm.
The Chief 81 Police came down from his
stool and gave him the Information and
no bet s2s on il. All the touts ard pikers
in the Mace cot ,o II and the faces in tn"
poolrp1m were ncl,w with hestifC joy
" hon the wire said that Black Vigil wac
L.ading into the str.tch was thinking
" l,t trorblo i would be 10 count all the
marcy
-pl,ck yivil WAS urplsc,d in the results.
A. LEANED af,crwaTd she war just gal
lr,,ny I, lie .,r.,ch under wraI- when