The sun., 1903-12-27
TIM SULLIVAN'S GOOD THINGS.
EYES or WASHINGTON SPORTS
ARE on I've CONGRESSMAN.
His Tips on the Horseraccs in Great DE.
nand -Gcneraliy They LOse-Dut That
Doesn't Seem to Matter--Nir. sullivan
Has Hard Luck Himself at Times.

lilt WIN ~ llDue 10 SeIlu HlIn
good things during the remainder Of the
undermining season, the Washington pony
players stand an odds-on chance of being
busted beyond redemption before the
arrival of spring.
Although Mr. Sullivan has been est alb
lshcd in Washington less than two months,
IL" already has a crowd sitting at his feet
for inside horse information that must re-
mind him of his breathless pack of horse
followers on the Bowcry.
An expectant looking crowd of dead
game sports. every man with wide open
cars, hovers every forenoon around the
thca' rical hotel a, which the urbane Con-
gresham lin has his headquarters. Every
messenger boy who enters the main door
and wrigGles up to The desk with tele-
gram is narrowly watched. and after the
boy has delivered the message the hotel
clerk has to reply to IA dozen quest ions like
this:
as hat wire for Tim?'
If the telegram is not for Mr.. Sullivan,
the dead games settle down TO further
waiting. But if the wire is for him n small
gale Of excited talk runs around the lobby,
everybody expressing a different view as
to the name of the good thing
Presently one of the many attaches on
the personal staff of Mr.. Sullivan comes
down in the elevator and srolls through
the rotunda, nodding to those Of the
watchers with whom he is acquainted.
He is immediat ely surrounded.
What's the one?' they ask him. almost
rantingly.
The Congressman's attach6 names the
one The crowd suddenly mes away.
Some of them dig up their regular hand
book men to get down their bets on the
Sullivan good thing, but most of them go to
the big poolroom across the Potomac in
Virginia to watch the chalk.
BY neon the word has percolated all
over W ashington that tim has got hot
one" from New Orleans or San Francisco,
as the case may be The farther these
Sullivan good things travel around town,
the more their absolute cinchiness is ex-
agEcra' ed.
Tins got one from Archie thinner
saying that Tribes Hill has got to fall down
TO lose, "Tim's friend Schorr wires him
that Van Ness could pack bale of hay and
win" Charlie Eisoo as wired Tim that
King Croker is going to win by the length
of two stretches, Sam Hldreth has tele-
graphed to Tim to bet the kitchen stove
and rag carpet on Potheen, Tim says
that his horse Homestead could pull furn-
ture van and beat the lot that he's u against
to-day"-thes are samples of the manner
in whi the wires on the uilivan ood
things are built up ard embellished by the
'nthusiastic sp eaders of the Sullivan
information.
1t should be said that Mr.. Sullivan is in
no wise esponsible for the wide dissent
nat on of the good things that are sent to
him nearly every day by racing men n
the winter tracks, nor does he play one
tenth of the lead pipes that drift lis way.
"If put on buck piece on all of the good
things that you confident believers in your
own skates dished out to me- sad Mr.
Sullivan to a orse owner during Il e last
Bennings meeting, I'D find myself without
the price of beef stew inside of six months"
NJ. Congressman Tim doesn't serve out
tke good thir rgs, nor is he aware that his
personal attaches do so He opens tele-
gram in the presence of one Of them reads
il, smiles 'uizzically. says "So-a d-So is
DIR aiming again. and passes the telegram
over to the man who happens to be with
him. Thus are t Sullivan good things
spread broadcast.
Now, not on out of five Of these >Sulli-
van cinches has won since the beginning
of the winter racing season, and it is a
mark the tremendous respect in which
his horse information is eld that the fol-
lowers of the New rk Congressman's
leaking tips go on fanatically from day
to day playing the Sullivan good things.
The dead games simply do not see how
his information furns ers ca continue
I he wrong all the time. and they point
to the fact that nearly all of the Sullivan
good things have been beaten by only a
face on the wire as an indication of how re-
soundngly the Sullivan pipes were knock
i & on the door
This "nearness- and yet -so-farness" of
the Sullivan tips is making the handbook
men wealthy, and the pooroom people
across the river are delighted to lay against
all of the sullivan information that comes
their way.
To illustrate the cheerfulness with which
the poolroom folks handle the Sullivan
tipped money, little occurrence at the st.
Asaph poolroom establishment one day
last week may be mentioned.
Aman who had heard of one of the Sullivan
scan't-lose horses, entered in New Orleans
race, hustled over to the poolroom on the
first train, eager to get the house betting
on the good thing, fearing that when the
track betting came in the price would be
prohibitively short and that the cinch horse
might be out altogether in the betting,
When he reached the poolroom the man
with the sullivan certainty rushed up to
the counter to see the manager. The
house betting hadn't yet gone up on any
of the races
Say" said the man with the cinch to
the poolroom manager, "what'l you lay
me against Craberino?" mentioning the
name of the horse.
"Oh, couple 10 one, | guess said the
manager, scrutnizing the blackboard.
why? Is Craberino already in?' and the
poolroom man smiled sardonic smile,
just as good as in, b'gee, said the man
with the Sullivan "airtight. Its the hot
test baby that Tins got yet"
"Oh. it's one OF Tins, is t?" said the
pooroom man. amably. well, in that
case. you can have to /, pal" and to
was the price chalked up
The hot foot early arrival put down
500 on the cnch, and the horse ran fourth,
beaten three noses, as the charts ex-