Evening journal., 1903-10-20
HOW RINGING USED TO
BE DONE AT IRON HILL
Veteran Trainer Tells Some "Reminiscences of How
the Trick Was Done Near This City
Several Years Ago

stopping his roofing for a moment, and
looking up at the steward.
Be discreet, my boy called down
the steward, mildly. BE discreet. Try
to remember your horses name you
lmowlssa
All, pshaw, pal, It's all right" said
the ringer man, srinning Joyousy.
Nobod' aint a-gom Z say notnin '-all
tn boys is in,' and then be rooted his
ringer under the wire.
Three Ringers in One Race.
That's Row hard the ringer game
was down iH Maryland when the dlz1y
ola desperate tracks were going.
"They didn't put their ringers over
down there FOR the huge cash nor try
TO make any Polk Badget killings, be-
cause the ringer workers needed the
practice, and they didn't want to chase
all Of the outlaw bookles to the duck
swamps in a body and atsonce. They
were content to tear off few thou
sand on each job for the fun they got
out Of the thing.
There was one first-class Eastern
selling platter from the legitimate
tracks who was rung through three diff
ferent times under three different
names and daubed up with three sepa-
rate and distinct coats OF hoss varnish
down at the Iron Hill track, and it's a
wonder the good old plug didn't croak
from closed up pores. so often was he
painted up and nudged to the post for
the money. He got 1t, too. every time.
but he never amounted 60 much when
he was brought back to the legitimate
tracks for he had grown to love the
smell OF his war paint on the outlaws,
and sulxed without It,
Plenty Of the seasoned ones around
here. too. viii remember that race on n
getaway day at Iron Hill In which
there we're Just three--count EN-
three ringers in one race, the whole
field consisting OF six horses. Most OF
the boys on the grounds got a piece Of
one or another Of the trio OF ringers
and 10 was about the hottest case of the
triple cross that bubbled 20 the surface
even down there, where your bosom
pal would smother you in your bed for
q 80 note or an unpunched meal ticket.
First, the one ringer as he was in
tended to be. OF the race was nailed and
liked up, and the word passed around
to the right people TO unbelt for their
bundles In the Baltimore and New York
poolrooms There was a leak In this
and man who had plug in thefrace
that the ringer was to cop MADE n lit
tie night ride OF II TO winter quarters
in New York. and pick outf ringer OF
his own for this race.
No. 3 Buck Jumped Horse.
'He didn't say anything about It ex-
cept TO his closest cqterie, and they
went into the Maryland counties with
the three peas thS pieces of gas pipe,
or any old thinesto get the coin to slap
down on that singer No. 2.
"A third owner OF horse IN the
same race got sniff accidentally Of
fVhaJ-Was coming Off and he made up
his mind that he too. might just az
well give some hard-luck horse-var-
nlsher a Job OF work So he slipped up
TO "a New Jersey wintering track ana
brought down a ringer OF his own.
"The operator of ringer No. didn't
learn anything about the scheme Of the
other two. The charterer OF ringer No.
. only knew about the frame-up Of the
man who was going to run ringer No.
/. But the fellow with ringer No. 3
knew all about the fix-it Of both OF the
Others. knew just what their ringers
could do. and therefore he got one that
was capable Of standing both of the
other ones on their heads.
Ringer No. buck jumped home
with rank outsiders price against
him, and then nearly everybody on the
grounds took punch at somebody else.
All hands accused somebody else of
having given them the baek-heel and
about eight dozen of the sure-thing
hackers OF ringers Nos. and tried
to kin each other ON the in-train to
Baltimore.
'rhem-them was the days. as
One-Eyed Connolly used to say. III
bet the drinks that the paint industry
is langulshing In Baltimore since those
old Maryland outlaw tracks shut
ldOwn. New York Sun.