Evening star., 1902-08-02
WILLIAM WHITNEY AND PARTY GOING TO THE TRlcKs

perceptibly. It's the man who risks all he
has on race that has need of nerve when
he bets
keene has this sort OF nerve in guam
titles. even If he doesn't have to exercise
1t when betting on race" says man who
has known him in his fushest as well as IN
his most stringent periods.
There was one day. long ago." says this
man. when Jim keene had to borrow the
railroad fare from Cedarhurst on Long
Island to New York before he could get to
town to try and make a raise. Well on
that day he appeared the same cool.shrewd,
nervy chap that he seems today; just as
neat in his dress, though his clothes weren t
so new, and quite aloof from the COM
mon herd. Nobody on earth would have
thought him short of cash. Another thing
James r. keene Is well fixed now-I wish
L had half his money-and might well af-
ford a spacious country house and a pala-
tial city residence but he has neither
When he is in New York he puts up at the
Waldorf Astoria, and when he is at Cedar
hurst he lives in the same wooden cottage
L don't believe it cost a cent more than
So,Oo0-that he called home in the days of
his hardest luck. There was a time then
when the ceiling of the porch of this house
showed great scar where the plaster had
fallen off. That scar was healed long ago.
and the house and lawn are now a good
deal neater in appearance than they were,
but otherwise the house is practically un-
changed"
VIM. K. Vanderbilt, Bettor.
OF all the Croesus bettors on the turf
William X Vanderbilt is the most inter
esting, perhaps. He goes into the ring just
like any ordinary bettor, and he makes as
big a show of his emotions as he would if
his fortune depended upon success. He
looks anxious, uncertain, uplifted or cast
down, according to his luck. Sometimes he
"beefS' when he loses, and often he gets SO
wrought up that his eyes stick out Of his
q NpG "
1t isn't because he cares for the
money, when things go the wrong way, tnat
he stirs up the turf so, say his friends, but
because he gets so wrapped up in the game
That's one of the reasons he is so popular
with the professionals about the race tracks.
He won't be at Saratoga on the opening
day, more's the pity for the sake of enter
tanment, being otherwise engaged IN
France at this time.
Like James r. keene, Mr.. Whitney never
goes into the betting ring personally, his
bets being placed for him by his son-in-law' s
brother, Sidney Paget. 1t is through Pa
get, indeed, that Whitney transacts most
of his racing business, and that's a good
thing alike for Paget, Whitney and the turf
in general Paget, being English, was born
to the turf, so to speak, and naturally
knows a good deal more about racing than
most folk. Whitney has the enthusiasm
and the money necessary to make great
racing factor of himself, but among eN-
psrtS ne 6 considered 100 easily Carried AWAY
by his enthusiasm. Thus, more than once
Mr.. Whitney has paid a fabulous sum for
some horse that has done one big stunt,
only TO find later that the price paid was
altogether too high. Since Paget has been
a full racing partner of the former naval
secretary such Whitney purchases have
been less conspicuous. and the horses in the
Whitney stable have been much better Sc
lected.
Handsome R. T. Wilson, Jr.
In his way almost as interesting on the
track as either Keene or Whitney, or w.
X Vanderbilt, is R. T. Wilson, jr. Like
Keene, young Wilson is seldom seen person
ally in the betting ring, generally delegating
the placing of bets to Harry Ningut, a
parsonage not very well KIN ONa the country
over, but thoroughly typical of New York
and the race courses nearby, and weIl
known among the habitues thereof There
is a rumor that he has done very well at
his wagerings this year so far, and his ad-
vice is just SO much the more valuable to
his friends who may ask him II place their
bets
Young Wilson, by the by, is almost as
handsome fer a young man as his father is
for an old one, and that is saying a good
deal, since next to the late Coils p. Hunt
the best looking men of years that ever
stepped foot in New York More than that,
he has aristocratic bearing and manners,
too, and the young man shares both these
characteristics, as befits one whose sisters
are married to a British ambassador,
Goelet and a Vanderbilt 1t is not certain