The age-herald., 1902-02-02

other words you can beat the races, pro-
 vided always that you start on a mathe-
 matica1 basis and allow nothing to tempt
 you to stray from it.
 Described as simply as possible, the
 system referred to is as follows:
 The operator determines to win a cer-
 tain sum on each and every race, day
 after day, Mondays first race being vir-
 tually a continuation of Saturdays last
 one. For illustration, let us suppose $5
 the sum desired to be won. The operator
 starts with a capital of $500, though if
 luck favors his system at all he might
 do as well with half the amount. Still
 1t is wise to have as large a reserve as possible, however certain the eventual re- suits.
 From first to last the operator Is bound | inviolably to bet only on the horse that | Is second choice in the betting. There are two good reasons for this One Is that | there Is not always good as even mon | ey to be had against the favorite, and the system forbids taking anything less; the other is that results prove the sec ond choice to win about as often as the favorite. Wherever the odds against the second choice are less than evens the race must be skipped Supposing, how ever, the betting to be even, the opera tor lays $5 to win a like amount. If his horse wins, he carires $5 to profit account and repeats the operation on the next race.
 Should his horse lose he comes to the next race with the necessity of not only winniAg $5 on it, but of getting back the | $5 he has lost, together with the $5 he had | intended to win. Thus in the second | V~a., he. l,Dfr A. 1 to bring him in his two 8 stakes and $1o more, which last represents the de-
 sired profits for both races. It may be,
 or course, that he will endure disappoint-
 ment Tor half dozen races (which is ex-
 tremely unlikely where second choices
 are played but If his horse wins the sev-
 enth race he recoverers every dollar he
 has hazarded and has a profit which
 cannot be less than $35.
 Frequently the betting will be such that
 the system reaps a profit many times | greater than is counted on, for 1t is for | bidden ever to wager less than S5 and 1 sometimes a second choice wins at re-
 munerative odds.
 The simplest way to test the foregoing
 system Is to procure a reliable turf guide
 that publishes the odds on all races, and
 then select a meeting, say the spring
 meeting at Morris Park While it is a
 fact that turf guides generally publish | only what are known as post odds which really work disadvantage to the experi- ment, without, however, imperiling It's ! success, this will be found a safe and | inexpensive way of proving the prac- ucablllty of the venture. Thus those who | nave inquired concerning the matter may | now ascertain for themselves whether It Is idle to dream of beating the races"
 Enough has been said above to afford A Key for experiments, but 1t Is only fair to point out what many persons who have prohtably worked the system consider US chief and most dangerous drawback We may now suppose some speculator to have operated the system faithfully Tor several weeks, thanks to which he mas nice sum to his credit in the bank Ioday, however, the first five races have gone against him and the odds are such in the sixth that he finds himself forced 10 put up pretty large sum, in accord ance with rules
 It happens that the particular horse on which he now comes to bet ia m fa Vorlte or his, whereas the third or fourth choice is. Naturally there are much yoora favorable odds against the latter so that ne would risk a lesser sum by merely violating for once the now objectionable condition. It seems foolish to sacriAce lot or money on a chance which his private Judgment warns him is slim: he wavers; once he wavers bangi goes tbe sS>tem higher than a kite. It will be readily understood that racegoer whose control of his ''judgm ent" | IS likely in a moment of pressure to | weaken, Is not the man to attempt svs | tenn or any Kind. If he has the capital and the inclination to venture 1t, he will he wise to associate with him some cnoI- headed friend who knows as nearly notb- ing as possible about the racing pano ana who Will never swerve from the course before him. With such an oner- ator' and provided you only interfere long enough to supply him with funds as emergencies arise you may remain com posedly in the grand stand and enjoy the races with confidence that you Are making money.
 Most old racegoers are familiar u,i+h the figures of two Hebrew brothers who Tor twenty years have followed the races on Eastern tracks. These men arc SphinNes; they are never seen to make o bet; they associate with nobody. hut they are known to have made a Iargo fortune by religiously following the svs- tenn described above through the mad,,,,, of a third brother. who does tho oner- | atng. This explains why these brothers aro | never known to seek a tip or give ono | Tor tips are known to system follow CTS only as evils designed by the demons Of racing to smash an lnfallible caIcuIa-