The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-17
NEW YORK is RACING MAD.
CROWDS THRONG TRACKS WHERE
THOROUGHBREDs RUN.

of Getting Rich Quickly Stimu-
Iates Men, Women and Children.
Millions of Money in Horses.
From the New York World.
New York is racing mad. This fact
is emphasized daily by crowd which
numbers from 5000 to $1,000 persons at
the Jamaica track just as it was at
tested two weeks ago by the thousands
who fiocked to Aqueduct. All go with
one object in view-to speculate. Every
man and woman is imbued with the
idea that fortune can be made upon
the turf by betting on the horses, and
they leave all cares, business and
household duties behind and rush off
madly to what they fervently hope will
be an Eldorado.
Saturday at the Jamaica track a
woman carried away with the frenzy
produced by betting on the horses for
got her child and left it sitting in the
grandstand. The horse that the wom-
an bet on won. In her frenzy of ex-
element and greed over her winnings
she rushed out of the grounds and was
about to board a train when she sud
denly remembered that she had brought
her little girl down to the course with
her. She dashed back to the grand
stand, crying Historically, my child!
My child! l left my little girl!' For
tunately the fond" mother found her
little one sitting where she had left
her.
The two race meetings at Aqueduct
and Jamaica tracks are auxiliary ar
fairs and serve as feeders in point OF
interest to the great race courses at
Morris Park, Gravesend and Sleeps
head Bay, which come later in rne sea-
son. Morris Park opens on next
Thursday, and from present indications
there will be a crowd of $4,000 to wit
ness the Metropolitan handicap, the
flrst great spring event of the year.
crowds Bigger Than Ever.
Never before at this season of the
year have the crowds averaged so
great. This is due to two cause.-the
great prosperity throughout the coun-
try and the increased interest in horse
racing.
The fortunes won by George e. Smith
(Pittsburg PhiD, David Gideon, John
A. Drake and Whitley" Langdon have
set the hearts of the speculatvely in
clined public ahame. Many men and
women reading about the great for
tunes won have become imbued with
the idea that all they have to do is to
go down to the race track, pick out a
horse and he will race back bearing
their winnings.
The "get-rich-quicB" idea without
work is necessarily before the race-go-
Ing community, ana they go to the |
races to emulate the deeds of the |
plungers and carry off with them the
fortune they are so anxious to secure.
Men, women and children-ten to-day
where there was one three years ago.
think, talk and live the races
n11k h%II
popular favor is due mainly to the |
fact that of recent years 1t has been the |
Caesars wife of sport-above suspi- |
cion.
The Whitneys, the Belmonts, the
Keenes and other men of great |
wealth, who are sportsmen for sports |
sake, control the local racing situation. |
Horses run to form" There is no |
thought or talk of jobbery. save the oc-
caslonal small scandals that crop up
Wherever there are men and horses. |
the money of the first wagered on the
speed of the latter.
DODes aDJ Tipsters.
There are two daily papers devoted |
almost exclusively to horse racing in
New York, where three years ago there
was one.
These are high-priced papers and are
bought solely for their tips and their
charts, the last showing the past per-
tormances of horses, in all their racing
careers, that are entered for the races
of the day
These charts are marvels of con-
densed information. They show what
position each horse took in all his pre-
Vlous races, how the track was who
rode him, what weight was carried
and whether the start was good and
what excuses could be given in case the
horst lost
Then there is the tip" No man
knows where the tip comes from. 1t
rises from the guessed-at import of
whisper between a stable boy and
rubber-down. From the tip the racing
information sharp wakes fat.
his advertisements are marvels of
alluring jargon of the track and pad
COCK. 1t needs a follower of the races
or student of slang to decipher them.
Here are some samples:
OUR CLIENTS NEVER LOSEi
an Our Special Three-Winner Wire of
Yesterday We NE@ied the Winners
:, Just Like Second Sight!
How Do We Wo 1t? We Have a Man
Who Wears Gum Shoes = Who
Sleeps in the Stable.
Our Checkers Are Up Before Sunrise
Watching the Fast Ones Being
Breezed a Bit, and They Know
Their Biz!
What We Have Done: to the Bookles
L
but To-day We Will Cut a
Melon for Our Clients!
we Have a Hot One for You to Get
Down To-day-Hock, Line
and Sinker
Those Who Follow the Tips of WISE
WILLIE Will Have Money to
Barrel Up and Put in the
Cellar Till 1t Mods!
Our Clients Will Cash in the Coon
skins Tomorrow, and With the
Bookies 1t Will Be, "Oh,
Such Business"
Fierce Desire to Gamble.
Everybody is betting mad, even the
pookmakers; the rich, the poor, the
OLD, the young; the Wall street man
Tor the excitement and because he
wants to win, the rest of us because
we need the money
The walters at the lunch counters
the peddlers of peanuts, the boys that
carry the bets of others, the reporters
VINO chronicle the results, the men who
own the horses the boys that ride
Ihem, the negroes that rub them down
all have money Wapqrpd most of |