The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-09-21
PHIL DIVER HIT HARD
Well Known Turfman Drops
$50, 900 in One Night Playing
Roulette at Saratoga.

New York. Sept. 20.-"Its nobody
/ business but my own what ] won or
/ lost at Saratoga. I can play the wheel,
bet $50 on a horse race or take a drink
OF whisky II 1 please. and nobody has
a right 10 say word 10 me. l can do
as / please with my own money.
This was the answer OF PM Dryer,
| veteran horseman and man about town,
! TO the questions he was asked yester-
, day about the reported big losing at
/ Saratoga on the last day OF the meet
I ing, when Dick" Garfield took his
] check for $4,000 IN full payment of one
! nights losses.
win you deny that you lost SSO,OOo?"
( was asked
mo / won't. What I do with my own
money is nObOdy's business"
This was all that the veteran would
say when a reporter saw him In the
afternoon at Sheepshead Bay race
track
Mr.. Dwyer. according 20 his friends,
paid the losing without a murmur and
had a drink with the proprietor before
he went to bed.
This is the story as his friends tell
IL: Mr.. Dwyer found IL quite dull at
Saratoga in the evening after the races,
because he cared nothing for the Ordi-
nary diversions. So night after night
found him at the club house. ready TO
play little with the roulette wheel.
lie played along with modest stacks
for him-night after night. for an hour
or so. winning a couple OF thousand
now and then. and dropping a few hun
dreds occasionally. The end of the sea-
son found him $4,000 10 The good.
On the last night h had a couple
. # hi ha
He was TO take the train for New York.
which left late at night. SO he strolled
into Canfield's and began playing a
fairly stiff game.
'You see" he explained 70 the pro-
prietor, I'm ahead of you for the sea-
SON"
Go ahead and win some more" said
Garfield. laughing.
Instead of winning. Mr.. Dwyer lost
steadily. Finally, he got 10 playing
500 clip. and before he knew 1t, so
bad was his run OF luck, he had dropped
his $4,000 winnings and was fast dig
ging down for more. Suddenly he
looked at his watch. He could barely
catch his train.
How much do owe your he asked.
Just 10000" said the eroupier.
Mr.. Dwyer called for his pen and
drew his check Then he waved his
hand at Garfield. and hurried off. But
the time he took for drawing the check
cost him the train. IL steamed out OF
the station as he got there. There
wasn't another tin morning.
Back to the club house" said he TO
the cabman.
He hadn't been gone fifteen minutes
Garfield smiled when Mr. Dwyer
walked in again. and the cropler had
a seat for him in a jiffy. Pretty soon
the limit was of. The stacks were
$1,000 now, and Mr.. Dwyer was playing
them. All other play ceased.
But the bad luck of the early evening
stili lowered over his chair. No matter
what he played, he lost. Thousands
followed thousands in the bank.
Last Poll," called the cropier.
Mr.. Dryers bet lost
How much now" asked the turf
man. quietly.
You owe $4,000. sir" said the crou-
pier.
Again Mr. DWyer wrote his check.
this time for $4,000, and went back to
the hotel. loser for 10000. Next
morning he took the train for New
York 1t was the biggest loss of the
season.
Phil Dryer can we'll afford 10 lose.
He is worth 100000, and is without
a family.