The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-02
sHRBWD WOMEN BBTTORs.
FOLLOWERS THE SEC


her actress friends the other afternoon,
and before the third race one of the stage
women asked her what she liked.
Well, said the dressmaker. soleun-v
referring to her little handicapping Iist.
there are two horses in the field cf
ourteen that figure so closely together
that they can't be separated
WeuY said the actress who had ask
ed her opinion.
Well the race ought to be dead
heat! said the dressmaker, without a
smile, and her solemnity was so funny as
she made that announcement that all Of
the women in the box broke into laugh.
Ihelr laughing didn't eaze the dress
maker however, and she did what she
had to do according to her system-she
prayed both of the horses that figured
10 run DEAD heat, and she played them
poth TO win. They were both 10 to l. and
she had the laugh on her actress friends
When one of her picks only succeeded in
beating her other pick by short Whis-
ker at the wire.
From my dealings with both sexes. I
pelleYe that women are more naturally
inclined to be honest in their betting
transactions than men, but once in q
great while we meet up with a woman
who is born sharper. I had a case Of
that sort on the last day at the Auue-
duct, and it made me sore but there was
absolutely nothing that L could do about
it.
1.-THE woman was about thirty, stout
and handsome, neatly dressed, with a
very frank, pleasant manner, and a nice
face. She used good language, and look
ed and acted the lady's part in every
respect.
her before. She signaled me as 1 was go
ing through the stand before the first
race, and she asked me her favorites
price.
''The horse was at to and she haaAsd
me a $2-bill on the favorite / took her
programme and marked So to 81 on the
margin against the favorte's name.
The faYorlte won, and when 1 was
paying off and came to this woman [
handed her s. note, having remembered
her bet particularly on account of her
nice appearance and manner and all be-
cause she was a newcomer.
" 'Fifty-tWo dollars, please said she.
looking me square in the eye.
81 told her that she was mistaken-that
she had only bet 81 on the horse at s. to
81. thought then that she had made a
mistake in her excitement and that she
had only imagined that she gave me a
I" 'Fifty-two dollars, please, and at
once she said in a hard tone, and then
1 knew what was up against.
But, said I, you will see it plainly
marked on your programmes to 81
" Not much said she, and she handed
me her programme
"And there it was as neat as anything
you could imagine. $32 to $50. She had
deliberately added to the and goose
egg to the 2, and the figures she had
tackled on looked so like my own for all
the world that any handwriting expect
would unhesitatingly have pronounced
them my figures.
'I gazed at her in amazement, but she
returned my gaze, looking me square IN
the eye.
That's neat work madame" said T.
but aren't you afraid to take a chance
on such crookedness?
"If you don't Immediately pay me
the $50 that you owe me- she said in a
loud tone, with the plain intention of
having everybody around hear her-and
thus holding me up for tho crowds
maker in such cases-I shall call Mr..
Robert Pinkertons attention TO you
Everybody was on her side-her ap-
pearance and manner. the excellence OF
lie figures she had forged on the pro-
gramme, and the natural bulge which
layer Of odds. l paid her the $50. and
she had the audacity to smile sardon-
lcalIy at me as l ~-N so.
THAT woman just needed the money,
and she took a mighty sdcrtific and
sklllful, II mean, way of getting it. But
she is just as good~as ruled off the turf
so far as ever getting another bet down
on a New York race track is concerned.
she was at Morris Park on the opening
day and on the second day, but I put all
the grandstand pricemakers onto her. and
they walked right by when she called
them, probably with the idea of finn
hamming them just as she had done me.
Moreover when she attempted to get
near her to 60 down to the ring with
her money, we warned them that they
were liable to come out at the small end
of the horn if they undertook and trans
actions for that woman, and they dropped
her like hot potatoes
'She saw that the game was up. and
she hasn't been at Morris Park since
the second day of the meeting"