The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-16
4 BUSTED SPORT" TELLS
OF RECENT HARD LUCK
Lost His Bundle at Benning
Meet-NOW Stranded.
He TELEGRAPHS FOR MONEY
Soup and Doughnuts HIS Diet Tor a
Week-Cold and Hungry He
Awaits Funds.

Never was that old song. 81 Guess I'll
Have 20 Telegraph Ny Baby" more ap-
plfcable than at the present time. when
half hundred. busted sports ara wan
dering atzlIesslv about the streets. /
awaiting coveted kilograms announcing
the remittance Of funds. enabling them
&c once mere get in touch with tho
ponies and begin operations afresh-
One OF this ilk- cold. dishesrtened, and
hungry. was met by 2 Times man this
morning. who had frequently seen him
al Benning in the early part Of the
meet Then he was well dressed. sport
cd he usual array Of fash iew7lTy. and
altogether put up a pretty good front"
This morning. however. all was
changed the jeweIry was conspicuous by
its absence. as was q handsome crava-
nette. pawn tickets Tor which he eN-
hibited with seeming disgust.
When asked Why ne fingered in Wash
ingto1 so long after the departure Or
the racing clique. he opened up.
Say. this is the limit I've been mp
against il good and hard in my time but
never like this before. amt had moth
ing TO eat. but soup and doughnuts for
q week I am 50 fun Of SOUP that when
I eat the sinker you can hear it splash
a block away. 7 came TO Washington
500 strong. ran the bank roll UP 10 81
SEQ and then / struck the chute. I
dent guess I've hit the bottom yet.
Good Things Went Wrong
More good things were handed around
7
heard before. and not one OF them went
through Usually my information has
been pretty good. and came from reli-
able sources, but not so this time. When
I thought I had an alright. I'd 90 the
route on II. bat always with the Same
result, left al the post, jostIed in the
stretch. or a swerve under the whip. al
ways occurred. until I went down and
out"
Speaking OF left at the post. that
guy, Mars CASSIDY. amt got bit OF
pity for a chap like ne. The first big
bet I laid was On True Blue and what
was the result? Chuched Redfern over
his head. Cassidy sent en- along. and
Tommy Foster won in a walk al goo &c
L Twice I Vas down on Reverberate- Il
vas like taking money from q deaf ana
dumb child Both times Cassidy left hin
at the post and I was all in
When asked how the bookmakors
Jared at Benning, the busted sport
said.
Make OUT Why, they took 1t all
don't believe there's q dollar in the city
except in Treasury vaults. and lhey'C
Ice .B,-s F-arv 7CoL-,r
up. They swept The town They IaiC
snort prices. and there YVES hardly
Gay that every pencfer in the ring didn
quit with handsome profit
LicEtenStein Leads Winners.
Taae Sol Lichtenstein and orIand.
jones they are about the fashiest pai
IN the country. and generally set tn
prices. Sol left three or four days befor.
the meet closed. and said he was abou
1000 10 the good Jones stayed unit
she finish. ana cleaned up barrel o
money the last three days Only on
fay was the ring hard hit. and thar o.
the Tommy Foster killing Many thon
sand dollars went TO The talent that day
but. like The cat. il all came back
These Washington people lost 10
Of money. They don't bet much at
timc-in fact they are pikers-but it al
counts up, and the bookies had so man
81 and s. bills 10 take away with ther
that they had To ship ii by freight
Concluding his long dissertation, tn
sport made 2 small quick touch. an
weaded his weary way 70 The teIegrap
Office 10 see if there was ''anyt hin
doing"