The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-15

. Ever since the pool rooms around
the country were taken down the line
on The Fiddler, who finished first at
Morris Park as a twenty -tO-One shot a
week ago yesterday, the bO0kmakers
have been trying to prove that the
horse was a rank ringer. An investt-
ga ton has been made by the officials
o. the Morris Park track and it appears
that The Fiddler was the horse his
owners represented him to be, and that
the win of that date was perfectly legit-
innate.
The pool room in Salt Lake was hit
along with others in the west and the
impression was out among the local
tOuts that The Fiddler was a ringer.
However. the true facts of the matter
have been made public by the New
York World, which shows it IS a plain
case of the talent being mistaken in
the ability of the horse. Here is what
the World has to say:
Story of Ridiculous Canard.
THE story published Monday that
7 he Fiddler. winner of the last race at
Norris park on Saturday, was a ring
er. was ridiculous canard. The story
emanated from the west, where bright
hallucinations of the mind in magma
tive reporters were the only foundations
that the horse was other than what he
really seemed to be. At the Norris park
track yesterday The Fiddler was iden-
titled to the satisfaction of the steward
By five men who saw him race I'm Cali
fornia last winter. They all stated that
the horse was identically the same one
that they saw win race under that
name. And thus the great ringing
case came to a very tame end.
The story had it's birth in the pool
fooms Of Chicago and Sausalito, which
IS across the bay from san Francisco.
The Fiddler, d bay gelding, 3 years old,
by FalsettO-C Ochuca, was heavily
backed in these pool rooms for a large
amount During the twenty minutes
devoted for speculation on the race
there was a continuous demand for
The Fiddler by the pool room patrons.
The opening price was Is and 20 to 1
against him, and as the flow of money
continued to pour in, the bOOkmakers
cut the odds but despite the shortage
IN the pri Be the demand for The Fiddler
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"The bookpakers could not under
stand it. The Western Uai0n operator
who sends the pr7ces-of-- The horses
away TO the various pool ro0fhs quoted
the odds Of the Morris park race tracK
at 20 to 4. Repeated inquiries as to
whether these odds were correct were
flashed over the wires, only 10 have the
reply that 20 to 1 was still Obtainable
in the ring. When some of the western
POOL room keepers learned this they tel
egraphed to D. b. Mitchell manager of
the turf department of the Western
Union Telegraph company, 10 place sew
eral hundred dollars on The Fiddler at
the very best odds. 20 to I preferred.
Mitchell obeyed the order and placed
the money, and ne was the only man IN
that vast thrOng of $4,000 persons who
bet anything like a large amount on
The Fiddler.
Cry of Western Pool Rooms.
The western pool rooms lost heavily
on the race. Because they had 20 pay
out a few large bets the proprietors
raised the hue and cry of ringer
Fhey gave out the story that The Fid-
dler was no less than Hiram Johnson,
the horse that won at New Orleans last
winter and was alleged TO be the Mon
tana thoroughbred called Mcnamara.
The horse. they said, had been planted
in the east only a short time and had
been entered i'm the race for a killing.
This story was telegraphed east. one
local paper tried to improve on the
western product by stating that 100000