Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-08

In the al got Of the racing folks, May ].
simply walked in. The tot riding her
didn't touch whip or spur to her at any
part of the route. He afteward owned up
won. She was in front at every stage of
the journey, and was never for an instant
headed. The writer has witnessed many a
scene of wild hySteria on American race
tracks, but he never saw anything to equal
the extraordinary demonstration that fol-
lowed May Us win. From the instant that
the 1900 men and women in the stand
made certain that 1t was the abused May
j. that was leading the procession down
the stretch, and going easy as they call
it, the screaming and bowling began. There
was something intensely weird and elemen-
tai in the passionate, shrill cries of the wo-
men who had bet on May j. at prices rang
ing from 500 to l down to 300 to /, and old
time race-goers acted almost insanely.
Scores of them simply tossed their hats
onto the sward and jumped on their head
gear with both feet. They Rugged and
slapped and punched and pounded each
other with the greatest impartiality, and
when the joke mare staggered in a winner
by two open lengths many of them fell fiat
ir their almost imbecile delight, and rolled
down the grassy slopes like skylarking
dogs
A Rousing Reception.
No winner of a Brooklyn or Suburban
handicap or any other great and historic
race ever got such reception as that
crowd extended to the victorious under
dog" when she trotted back to the stand
with a perkiness quite new to her. Men
and women rocked and screamed praises of
her for fully ten minutes after all of the
Jockeys had weighed in. Several women In
the stand were utterly overcome with
delight that they tainted and had to be re-
moved to the women's retiring room. The
bookmakers have scarcely got through
sulking over that race yet, and several of
them have not taken their places in the
bookmakers' line since May Us win. For
three or four days the bookmaker who had
chalked up 1000 to 1 against May Us
chances trembled like a man in the final
stages Of palsy. The bookmaker who won
$50. 900 on the win of May J., after being
made the butt of the ring, announced his
retirement for the season right after the
race, amid the scowls of his felIow-layers
whom he had hit hard. An old Harlem mil
liner whose little shop had been seized by
the sheriff only few days before had $40
on May j.. at 800 to l, and now she's talk
ing about setting up a millinery business
in 9th avenue. A black stable hand who
had 81 on the joke mare at 600 to had to
be treated for four days by one of the horse
doctors for acute nervous prostration.
Coney Island trolley motorman who
was taking his day off put SIS on May j.
When he reached his home that evening
with his $4,000 winning he found that
his wife had presented him with girl, and
he is going to christen the new member of
his family May ]. And thus 1t went 1t is
said that no betting ring on the American
turf has ever experienced such a savage
jolt at so many hands as the Aqueduct ring
did on this remarkable May ]. race
May Us owner says that he Is going TO
take the joke mare that was to the Ben
ming races. But it is very certain that at
Benning or nowhere else will the odds
against May J. eyer mount as high as thew
did on the day she won her one and only
race. c. L. G..