The sun., 1903-12-06

lons procession Of trolley cars bound for the
Bennngs track came to a grinding halt the
other afternoon, with about two miles still
10 90. The power had temporarily given
ont The halt came about a quarter OF an
hour before post time for the first race.
Well, they're all dogs in the first race,
seemed to be the opinion of the regulars
and others who were shiverlng in the open
seats Of the stranded front car, and we II
be dough in hand b. missing IT,.
That's all right, too, put in worried
hoking man who sat hllddled up in the rear
sea-, with his overcoat collar drawn about
his ears, shut all the same I'd like TO have
few of you fellows give me your names and
addresses, at that, and he nervously pulled
out IL notebook and pencil
Tie men in the same seat with the worried
looking chap regarded him curiousIv but
said nothing,
'\o. said the man with the notebook and
pencil, his face wearing q wan and frozen
grin, I'm not bug. neither am sleuthin'
for evidence against the bookies. You
won't be standing for any pinch by giving
mo your monalers and hang-outs.
But it s this way: I've got another man =
money in my clothes to bet on the first race
He pretty nifty lawyer in town, and he
couldn't make the track to-day, as us,la
because he's got court case.
This morning somebody handed him this
Toness plug. A couple of hours ago he
passed me century note and told me
to spraddle the hundred bones across the
board on Totness. ] wouldn't give ~
cents for Totness myself, but he may cop
Al that
"tnd there's not a chance in life of my
NJ ,h,rg the track for the first race. So
want to be protected. I've been there
before
This writ writer is pretty good friend
of mine. and he g got 10 reason to suppc 81
tha, IN highbinder or second story
MAJ But this is racing business, and that
ma =, it different The most Of us uu
suspect Father Kelly if we gave him
racing commission TO perform and, after
the thing had hopped through, he carne
back to lis with drawn mouth and a story
Of how he missed fire. guess you ducks
understand
They did They were all smiling rem-
mis- emily before he had finished his explapa
ton and the four of them in his seat willingly
gave him their names and address which
he wrote in his notebook with considerable
car
The outcome proved his wisdom. The
leading trolley car didn't make the track
until after the first races numbers had
been hung out. The top number was that
of Totnees, which annexed the race with
o" 70 / against his chance.
he lawyers delayed commissioner had
all four of the men whose names he had
taken-.two OF them well known racing
ner- AT his Office on the following morning.
-,.ot." said the lawyer good naturedly.
vhen his friend turned up with thefour Wit
neas,-s 20 his delay in reaching the track.
Not at oil necessary
- h-huh it may Le rot all right, was
The commissioners reply but all the same,
old man. feel a whole few better that the
situation is framed up Just az IL IL
That fellow had his head on straight, all
Square enough" remarked one OF the rae
ing men. on coming away from the lawyers
office But he made his mistake in ac-
cepting friends betting money in the
first place. No real wise cove Is willing in
these days to take upon himself the re-
sponsibity Of attending TO another mans
gambling I've been so badly Jared at
IHIl rpll bl IlllE Inut' iO"' "cNSh
place two dollar bet on /. sure thing, 100
to shot, for my best pal if he was laid up
IN hospital with a fractured prop.
For instance, my cigarman in Harlem
will never get ovor believing I'm fink and
bullet head. One day. during the last
Morris Park meeting, pulled my gasoiene
ghg cart up in front OF his shop to stake
myscf TO some smoker
Ne brought my box Of cigars out to the
pufT wagon, and after I'd stuffed my pockets
h. handed me his picks for the six races.
.crawled on a bit of paper, and ten-case
note. He wanted me to parlay the X-paper
Oh his six selections.
Il told him that he must mean Bud, and
no, me. and leaned back in the hiss-drosky
and spent about ten minutes in explaining
TO him why I'd cut out frivollinE with other
peoples money at racetracks. He said that
/ was his only chance--that he didn't know
Of anybody else going out to Morris PARK
thai afternoon But had to draw myself
up to my full seated height, all the same.
Of them at any old odds He got busy
with pencil and pad that evening. after
he a seen the results, and figured IT out
that my refusal to take his sawbuok and be
it for him on the parlay system had cost MIN
around one hundred and thirty-mne iniihoh
Il saw that he regarded me as shine.
and that there was no way OF squartng
It with him, and 80 had to hunt new
tohacconist; he wasn't even civil TO- me
after I'd lost him all Of those millions.
So that IL you've got friends thoughtless 81
enough to ask you to do their horse betting
for them, you're liable to get 1t coming and
going
a friend Of mine, an old timer at the
game, was driving his fast PAGER out from
Chicago to the old Roby track few years
ago He had in his kick $1,000 note
which chum Of his, big e1pressman IN
Chicago, had passed to him to bet on OLD
Rife in the first race
When he was half way to the Roby
track his PAGER got away from him IN
shy over piece OF flying paper, took the
iron in his molars and went on ever the
prairie at 200 fiat scamper. or something
pretty close to 1t My friend was tossed
Into some scrub brush near the road, and
the horse went on until the cart turned
over, when he pulled up.
My friend picked himself up and caught
the horse. The trap was wreck: He let
II lie and took the horse half a mile up the
road to a roadhouse barn.
He was fooling around the back yard
Of the roadhouse, after seeing to the horse g
erre, when he backed into an, unprotected
tdstern that was being dug 1t was neat
backfall of about twenty feet, but he lit
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