The sun., 1903-05-12
ODDS II TO I
Against Winning at the Races. OH the EN.
Dcrlence OF This Bunch Of Backcrs

A bunch Of curb brokers, transformed
for the time into hot racetrack sports
went up to Morris Park on Saturday There
were dozen in the party. Eleven "lost
their Shirts and one ran -shoestring,
namely SO, up to ST. ,675. There was per-
sistent rumor, however, all day in the curb
market yesterday that his winnings had
been a million or thereabouts, at least that
was the figure most talked about when the
market closed, although slightly lesser
amounts had been spoken of earlier in the
day.
Edward Mccormack was the broker
whom fortune favored 1t isn't the first
track On Brooklyn Handicap day last
year he also started with So, playing it
across the board, 1. 2, 3, in the first race
and winning all three bets, which, of course
put him at once ION velvet" He touched
the bookes up after that in vigorous style,
and out OF seven races picked the winners
in five and caught a second in another
race Among the horses he bet on we're
two 90 to shots and one 100 TO shot, and
when he left for home his original So had
swelled to $500 His success of Saturday
while not quite so remarkable, will in view
the most sought after man in the Broad
street curb market on racetrack DAYS
Asked about il Yesterday, Mr.. Mccormack
said:
mo, never follow touts nor play on
information | believe in picking the
winners myself
That is all tina: Mr.. Mccormack would
say. He is young, and II well known on
Broad street as one of the brightest and
most active of the curb brokers,
In the string that he played on Saturday
he won on five races out of seven. In the
first race he bet on Durazzo, placing 50
across the board, the odds being 80 to
for first, 10 to second and to for third
place. With 81 up, each way he cashed in
$50 in winnings. He used half of his win
In the second race he backed William c.
Whitney's Hopeful Miss at 8 to to run
third the place that she got. In the Bou-
quet stakes, the third race, Mr.. Mccormack
made his first losing. betting on Rusk l,
2, ,, at odds respectively of Is to |, Gto and
was retrieved, however, III the fourth race,
the Toboggan Handicap, when he bet on
Illyria across the board at GO to /, 90 to
and to /. Illyria came in second and he
cashed in on two of his bets. He lost again
in the fifth race, when he bet on Auto across
the board at 20 to |, TO and to /. This
was his poorest play of the day, for Auto
came in seventh out of a field of fifteen
running. The sixth race was the renewal
of the Metropolitan Handicap Ar,icuate
was Mr.. MctOrnack cnolCe, ana he put
up a wad at 8 to TO win, and won. Dark
Planet, who ran second in the final seventh
race, was the horse he backed /, 2, 3. in that
event, at odds respectively of 20 TO /, 8 to
and to 1.
While young Mccormack was raking in
the shekels, the other eleven brokers who
had come up with him to do the bookies
were getting left. Out Of the whole lot,
his brother, j. l.. Mccormack. was the only
one who placed single winning bet and
he lost on other events. 80 that, when the
day closed, he was SIS to the bad. The
losses Of his companions exceeded this.
and, in the case Of one broker. the book
makers got way with four to five hundred
dollars of his cash All the members Of
the party were cleaned out, except Edward
Mccormack. and he lent them enough to
hire cabs to take them home.