The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-02

small panic with the fear Of something good
getting away. from him. What do l doP
Rehearse me-
well, I'll fetch him along tomorrow
afternoon, II you're in said Lamar. and
you can let him win ten or twenty thousand.
That'll be the beginning Of the shred. I
wouldn't be surprised II he'd stand for a
hundred thousand, or even two hundred
thousand tap, before it's all over
Ten or twenty thousand? What dye
want to let him take down such a hefty
wad for, Just on the try-out?' inquired the
poolroom man, some anxious again.
I've told you that this Is not going TO
be sprint for the Bean Bag Stakes said
Lamar. It's going to be over q cup route
for the papers with the an" marks in the
corners. If drag him down good-sized
bet, ten OF twenty thousand, on the first
try-out, he'll want 1t all.
He was bred in old Missouri y know.
and he's got to get the fash at the real
money on the other side Of the counter be-
fore he'll get interested. The pony game
Is new to him, and he wouldn't believe that
the real cush was slowed away in dingy
he got a peek at nifty bunch of it.
AFTER that I'll see that he gets the
weight LITTER vest on and goes In strong
~7Got your plant rugged up yetT inquired
the poolroom man, the green in his eye
showing more than ever.
nope, Dut We gov IooiAi acI oso wv
street picked out, said Lamar Better
peel me of couple hundred to fix up the
phony room-my tools are in hook.
IThe poolroom man skinned the two
hundred from his roll and passed IL over,
and then Lamar knew that no was In.
-The next morning Lamar had the fake
instrument installed In the room across
the street, and took the poolroom man there
-'I'M bring Tiny Tim around there, this
afternoon, said Lamar. and he'll have
his checkbook along,
Say inquired the poolroom, man,
little nervously, can't you get the TOM.
get sqleaky and stop payment on checks
A'No chance replied Lamar in his on
hand way Hes as safe as a cyclone
cellar Besides, like all the shines that have
lust come into the large ker-tish, he's so
stuck on his check book that he scrawls
em when he stakes himself to bottle OF
pop or pack of cigarettes.
1And 80 Lamar got the poolroom man
Mlled.
first race at Sheepshead Bay was due,
Tommy Lamar trickled into the .poolroom
with the angel chappie. And he was a
chaRpie right: -. .,,,s. ob. and hahv-b,ue
ewes and a white-and-pink band around
his straw hat. His makeup was Of the
kind, according to Tommy, that nd have
made almost anybody feel like giving him
horrd slap o N the wrist.
"He seemed to be laboring under great
mental excitement as he entered the pool
room with Tommy and tugged awfully
hard at his wispy mustache: Tommy
deposited him in rocking chair in corner
Of the poolrocm and then slid over to the
counter behind which the poolroom pro-
prietor was waiting for him.
q 1T a a shame to do IL, heyy said Tommy
grinning, and jerking his thumb in the
direction of the boy in the chappie rig,
"Oh, he won't miss it, replied the pool
room man, easy by this time. Somebody
'ud be taking Il away from him soon any
how, and we might as well take the first
plunk from the taw line.
We'll, they'll be at the post ina minute or
J So said Tommy, and I'll hike him over 70
my room and go through the motions OF
getting the Sheepshead winner.
Then Tommy hustled over to the corner
and got the chappe out of tn" rocking CHAIR
and liked him over to the room acre ~ the
way where he had the instrument fixed IN,
the poolroom man passing Tommy the
saturnine wink az Lamar went out OF the
door with the angel.
when Lamar knew that the result OF
tho first Sbeepshead race was about du'