The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-02
RYAN'S GET.RICH.QUICK PLAN.
4 TURF INJESTMENT SCHEME
THAT COULDN'T LOSE EASILY.
Newport Track. Horses. Jockey. om-
cials and Bookmakers Owned by the
Man Who Promised the Public HE
Fronts on Money Invested Win Him.


OF all tho get rich quick turf concerns
probably the most profitable was the John
j. RYAN Invest ment Company which recently
went up in smoke along with f.. j. Arnold
A Co and other combinations. Ryan
couldn't lose at all, II seemed. while Arnold
and the o, her get-rick- quick schemes often
had 20 take chances with Dame Fortune.
When Ryan sent his circulars out he
offered a certain per cent. week on invest .
ments and explained that the money placed
with him would be- used in turf speculation
in connection with various ventures IN winch
no was Interested. He opened the much
talked Of outlaw track az Newport. Ny.
That wa. his first move to protect his credi'
tors whose money he was TO double in
year.
With a racetrack under his wing. even
though he could not secure the sanction OF
the Western Jockey Club, Ryan had to have
some horses. As the Western Jockey Club
had threatened to rule OF all owners, train"is
and Jockeys who operated at Newport,
Ryan found that the task OF getting horses
to run al the outlaw track was not an easy
proposition. Few owners, except those
that had already been ruled on. would
take a chance
50 RYAN had to buy horses outright. he
purchased several carloads at New Orleans.
Then he bought more in Kentucky and sent
his agents everywhere looking for nags
Of uncertain age and weakening knees if
necessa ry, so that a decent showing might
be made
But the horses could not run without
Jockeys and few riders cared TO take q
.l.AI ha. RI
forever unless IL was made an object Tor
them So RYAN went out again and ny
| Offering big money he landed a number of
| impeciinious stable boys and several jockeys
| who had been ruled on the turf III previous
wears, the whole bunch taking care OF the
| riding end Of the game and receiving their
| pay from Ryan.
fhe racing was ready to start then, eH-
| cept for the appointment OF stewards,
| Judges, timekeepers. starter and other
| officials II was once more up 10 Ryan
| TO All these important offices at once with
| men OF competence and standing in the
| community. So he unbelted himself once
| again and hired the officials with lavish
| hand. ~
| Racing without bookmaking would never
do at such desoiate place as Newport
| argued Ryan. and for that reason he con-
cluded to postpone the opening OF the out
| law track until he had stocked the betting
| ring with shrewd pencllers. The matter
| OF finding clever layers when II came down
| TO chalking scientific figures and making
| a good book was easy, but few OF them
| had the money with which TO back them
| selves
| So down into the Ryan purse went the
| RYAN hand again with the result that Ryan
| was the owner OF practically all the books
in the Newport ring' owner OF the track.
and officials and financial hacker OF the
| books, RYAN was indeed in a splendid posi-
| ton 10 see that the racing was run str city
| on it's merits and from all accounts he took
| good care that nobody did him from these
| remarks once credited To him
Il know there are some skins working
| al nv rack and tina, they are trying To pull
| of some 81 ok games hut am next 10 them
| and they'll 60 10 the tall umbers. when
anybody tries to do Ryan there II be trouble
in the camp.
on all Jockeys who do not ride strictly
according to orders and 10 punish all evil
| doors no matter who they may he.
| The stewards followed their Instructions
80 far as 10 rule on some persons who were
| trying to get rich quick themselves
Now. where did Ryan intend to invest
the flood of money rolled into the coppers
| of his St Louis get -rich-quick concern!
| II was TO 90 90 Newport possibly, 80 sharp
! ,urfmen say, where Ryan was to bet u on
his own horses, ridden hy his own Jockeys,
| on his own track. with his Salariad Stewards.
Judges and starter In control and he was
| TO pirce the money with his own hook
makers Surely Ryan vac earnest when
| he said that he would allow no skin games
al Newport AZ long a. he had control
And We, thousands of men and women
| all over The country sent the money TO Ryan.
| II Ryan lost II ia turf speculation, he could
not have los, IL a, Newport turfmen believe.
Inc nearest approach to such wholesale
| syndicate ownership Was in the days Of the