The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-12

l figure al about 15 or 20 to 1 in the morn
 ing poolroom odds,
 | "Rigged up with the name of the 1 walkover horse that was going to do his 1 little canter the next afternoon, all oi
 US outside people with the cash to pat 1 down on the rush executed the quick hike. My pal and I took the midnight ! train from Washington for New York | When we got to New York we made
 a count-up and I found that I had just l $1 ,000S5, while he had $50t12. That left
 us just one ninety-seven for breakfast
 and shave and carfare uptoWn-we 1 wouldn't have loosened up the saffron paper money on any consideration, for we had the hunch that it would be bad luck if we didn't go up and down the line with the absolute round-number currency on the good thing that was just going to stroll us into richness.
 "The first poolroom that my pal and
 l romped into along toward 10 o'clock that morning was in Third avenue, near Twenty third street, and the huse han
 dicapper had already shot up the house
 betting on the first three Alexander Isl-
 and races. The one that had been se-
 lected for the solitary airing was out
 side the bum breastworks at 20 to l.
 "Wel, we had to gulp hard to keep
 down the joy, but we got away with it.
 and I walked up to the card writer be-
 hind the glass-a chap that I knew
 and told him that about $100 on Haw
 buck-which is near enough to the
 walkover's name-would come pretty near rounding out my Dutch book. He gave me the grin as he pencilled me the $2,000 to $100 cardboard.
 Still taking 'em on the limb to win?' said he, derisively Say, why don't you hire booth down in the secondhand clothing district and peddle matches?'
 'I pretended that his kidding had scared me out so that I wanted to draw the longshot bet down, but he wouldn't stand for it, and then my pal and l did a quick dissolve for another room down the line, where Hawbuck was also on tap at 20 to i and plenty of it in the morning house betting My mate took $100 worth of that and stood for the guying of the boy behind the window who wrote the ticket, and we kept on moving.
 At some of the rooms the best we could snag for our coin was 15 to 1, but we ate it up, being anxious to get the whle bundle down, knowing as we did that any price was a good price, and not feeling safe in showing more than $100 in any one room on Hawbuck It was about o'clock in the afternoon when we got the last $100 down in Park row rom, and by that time we were hungry--but lunch? Nix the lunch-we couldn't afford it.
 T stood to cash about ST, 800 on the Walkover, and my pal an even half of that and the things that we had it all carded to do with the programmes in the White Light feed emporiums when we'd got through collecting were a sin and a shame. We were so nervous and hungry while we sat there in that Park row poolroom, waiting for She minute to get around, that we came near mix ing it up with each other in a discussion over the brand of magnums that we were going to get outside of after we'd the sadness into the room pro- prietors.
 Our walkover was the second event on the Alexander Island card and as
  crept around we could hardly stand in one spot more than twelve seconds at a time. We figured it that, as the races began at o'clock, the scratching for the second event ought to be under way around half past 1 o'clock, and when the clock sailed past that point and still no scratches in our walkover we began to get the lid buzz sos that we were afraid the other folks in the room would hear the cogs a-sipping,
 But at twenty minutes to ? the first | scratch was announced by the operator, | and then the way the boardmarker be- ! gan to rub out the bou1e betting on that ! race was something swift. A few min | ltes later a couple of the six were rub | ped out, and then the boss of the room | began to gaze in the direction of my pal and in reproachful kind of way, [ he was in the room.
 When short time before the first | ace, another of the six was plotted out, | eaving in only the walkover and one l other, all my pal and 1 had to do to see | nonye to close our eyes and there'd be | stuffed with it. One min- lte before the operator started to call | )ff the first race, he announced the of the last mutt in our race except the 20 to 1 WalkOver. and then we had to hold on to windown sills to keep from falling down, it was so su- gary
 The second race is walkover for 1awbuck said the operator, unneces- arily, as all hands in the room could cad the board and the scratches there m, and then, just to pass away the ime, my pal and 1 fell to talking about what colors of silk lining we were going o have put into the few dozen of suits if clothes that we were going to order he next morning.
 'Hawbuck at the post, and now tarting to walk around the track an- the operator at post time, and hen I said to myself that it would be
 graceful thing for me to run down to ersey in the course of the next few | lays and buy my old uncle that new set if false teeth that he'd been wanting or a long time.
 This was the kind of smoke I was in- laling when the instrument began to lick again, and the operator, with Jew Dockstader grin on his chart hrew his immortal and never-to- be- jolt at us:
 'Hawbuck doesn't finish his walk To low in I1a ,f l