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# TROLLEY RACING !"
FAMOUS RACE OF BAD PENNY RE-
CALLED BY PRESENCE OF
JOCKEY KENNEDY.
WAS IN SAVANNAH YESTERDAY
RODE HORSE AT CHARLESTON
WITH BATTERY ATTACHMENT.


knowing Ones Who Saw the Horse
Finish in Front and Then Lost
Their MOney-kennedy Says He
Has Found Honesty the Best Poll
cy Even on Outlaw Race Track.
Jockey William Kennedy was in Sa-
vannah yesterday. en- route to New
York from his home at Memphis, where
he has been to visit relatives.
Kennedy was outlawed 3 during the
races at the Charleston. Exposition, and
so far has failed to get reinstated in
any of the big jockey clubs, and has
been devoting his time to accepting
mounts in the bushes.
The presence of this diminutive bit
of humanity in Savannah called to the
minds of many of those who attended
the race meeting at the exposition on
the banks of the Ashley, "over home"
that gray afternoon in. February when
Kennedy on Bad Penny carried thou
sands of dollars of the wise peoples
money-and also an electric battery.
The date and the day are indelibly
impressed on the minds of many who
had placed their all come out of the
ruck in the turn home, and with
burst of speed almost beyond. reason,
thunder through the entire field and
finished in front of he-buneh, with full
two lengths to the good. Pandemoni-
UNI reigned but not for long. Conscious
ones, who knew how and why Bad
Penny had run such a race, paled as
they saw the judges in earnest consul
tation with one Jakey Myers, a jockey,
who rushed into the stand just as Bad
Penny flashed past the wire winner.
Every one who knew that Kennedy
had sent the gelding through the bunch
with the aid of an electric batter at
tached to his spur, knew that Myers
was wise to the machine" and also
that he had threatened exposure If he
were not given a ticket on the good
thing" The signal was given TO the
bookies not to pay of, and myers de-
seconded from the stand with a self
satisfied air. He had no sooner put his
foot on the ground than he was pounc-
ed upon by trainers, touts. stable boys
and other hangers-on, and would nave
been beaten to death but for the timely
interference of the guards.
Was a DolefuI Day.
It was one of those cold, foggy after
moons in February, the 19, that owners,
whose bank rolls had been gradually
90ssifted into the feed troughs, ana
jockeys, whose pay was. not l3 9roa,
corning, and trainers suffering from
the same causes, rung UP the game
to recoup their losses and expenses IN
a final fixed one" 1t was after the
reign of lobe Wall at the half-mile
circle, the management having passed
down through successive hands to one
Simms. The race selected tor tne
killing" was the first one, a. six FUR
long affair with such sprinters as
Robert Gray, Patchwork and W. }.
Baker entered. James Vunck had an
erratic gelding called Bad Penny, who
was also entered in this race. BAD
Penny was a notorious sulker, ana
had done practically nothing at the
Charleston track He was selected as
the vehicle with which to deliver the
goods" Kennedy, who had the mount
on the sulker, was duly rugged up with
a Battery, located somewhere In his
silk blouse, with a wire attached, run
ming down his trousers leg and con-
meeting with his spur. This was an
old trick unearthed in the days OF the
famous old Gutenberg track. All the
broken touts were put next, and eau
toned not to bet much, and not TO
show too much willingness to get on
Bad Penny, who was certain to be
is good as twenties F'1kirs, who had
friends about the stables were also
told to get down. 1t gradually leaked
out that there was going to be some
thing doing, and when old Wapunket-
neata, the Indian bugler, sounded
?to saddle "easy-ones- willing to-be
guided" touts rubbers, jockeys, train
.ers and even Charleston citizens lined
up armed with ones, twos, fives and
some scattering tenners, for an on
slaught on the books as soon as the
not on the INSIDE" suspected some
thing and followed the talent. The big
bettors laid but little money in the
books at the track, most of it, several
thousand dollars, being sent by wire
to Covington KY, and to O'Learys
pool room in Chicago. ~.
Tho Way 1t Was Fixed.
Finally the prices were posted and
the rush commenced. Bad Benny was
at twenties. with Patchwork an even
money favorite. It took but a few mo-
ments for the lynx-eyed knights of the
block to realize that there was some
thing "diding" Prices were cut half
in two on Bad Penny. but the buying
continued, until finally the price went
down to skies and then to tours. The
grand stand messengers were kept
hustling to lay money for those I'M
willing to risk the turbulent masses of
! humanity heaVing to and fro in the
ring. When the horses came out wise
ones could not refrain from sending up
a cheer. Bookies looked anxious.
Jockeys who were not next" wonder
ed, all except Kennedy. He smiled.
The horses logged around TO the six
and half furlong pole and broke to
good start. all save Bad Penny. Hes
left at the post went up from the
crowd. To specify by name was super
fluous. But Bad Penny quickly got in
to the running and when the field
! swept by the grand stand he was we'll
in among the tail end of the field. He
held this nnsitinn until the turn dn,un