The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-07
THE ORIGINAL MARK
Paretic No. 10 Tells How He Has
Been Football for Caprio-
ious Fate.
Some Sure Things That Weren't
Sure, and Killings That Didn't
Come OF.

Lose anything on Mccoy Thursday
night z? asked PareticaN at the weekly
meeting OF the club. 81. 4,
Lose anything?" said .Paretic No. 10.
You've heard. of these high divers,
haven't you? WE'LL that's me- I struck
the bottom. and it was all rocks. My wife.
| told me this morning she wanted to go.
down to Iowa to visit some of her rela-.
tives told her If she went she'd have to
travel on bed Stat; I didn't have money
enough to buy pair Of leggins for a
humming bird.
7 suppose" continued No. 10, thought
FULLY, that am the original and only
sucker. I always get on dead one. If
he isn't dead when get on, he falls dead
before cash in.
Now. some men are born lucky. Eu-
gene Carter, the billiard player, would
gamble on anything, and he never lost a
bet Carter, you know, as the man who
was playing before the Prince of Wales.
once, and his royal nibs said after one
fancy shot, All. very clevah, Mr.. Carter
very clevah, don't you know. Somebody
must. have told YOU said Carter But
that hasn't anything to do with Carriers
luck. The last bet he ever made he won.
It was the day before he died., and the
doctor told him he, couldn't live till mid
night I'll bet you ten do said Carter,
and he made the doc put up the money
| and won 1t. .s5
Nov, can lose bets just as often as
Carter would win them. I was pilxing
on the ponies one summer, and was just
about bfeaking even, when somebody gave
| me the tip on a sure thing. I didn't know.
as: much about sure things then as I do
now. i discovered after I had seen a few
of the species that a sure thing is first
cousin to a dodo-tl1ere aren't any
This particular infallible article was
a filly of John j. Ryans which had
broken down and been patched UP again.
She was quoted at 40 ito l, but she had
been running fast and was easily good to
beat any horse in--tl1e race, provided of
course she was right. She had been an
awful bleeder. but a man gave me the
tip that she was all right
4 was down OH the track when the ami
mails came out to warm up, and was
| resting easy with tickets in my pocket
calling for $4,000 If the filly won. Her
jockey brought her=up the stretch, and all
at once saw something which made me
feel like tearing up the pasteboards. There
were four or fve1 spots Of blood on the
flly's nostrils.
81 broke for the betting. ring to hedge.
With the fi1ly out@o the way there was
only one. horse In the race, and was just
going to get down all the money had
on him., when I struck a fellow who had
the tip on the hly and hadn't heard of
her bleeding again. Her price had been
beaten down tos,15 to Land thought i
had broken the hoodoo when hypoed the
sucker into taking my tickets off my
hands and got back the $50 had paid
for5 them. Then cIs put 500 on the. other
horse. .
! I. sDid he VIM Didn't tell YOU was
the origiHaEhuman mark i The flly came
in under pull ten lengths ahead of the
field. John Ryan, had killed a chicken
and ahad che Jockey sprinkle some blood
on the flly's n1uzzle.s just to scare off
suckers like myself and keep the odds up
was $10oi out when I might have been
$4,000 to the good. s<z E.:5>>e5
49, -
41'It wass only, two or three days after
that, when II got a tip on another good
| thing. This was q, horse that someway
had got into a. class about five seconds
too slow for him. It was a leadpipe, iron
bound cinch. The. bookies weren't wise
either, and gave 20 to 1 on him. All us
Wises guys, of course, put on everything
we had. stood to win $4,000. and 1 had
the route would take going thru Europe
all mapped out. But too many people got
next to the graft, and the play scared
the bookies.. Next morning the mutt
was dead In his stall-poisoned. That's
why say, If I was. in the airship bust
ness people would grow wings ,,