The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-05

nandlnR over nifty, ana Jne Det WehL
down in a corner Of the sheet thousand
to fifty that the dog he named wouldn't
finish
We'll, his horse did some bronco work
at the very first jump, tossed his rider
underneath the hedge, and then, relieved
Of the burden on his back. went on with
the field, taking the jumps with them all
the way around and finishing near the
leaders.
"'Just like coming gran'ma for the Sun
day-school money ST Id the kinky bettor
when he came around to my payroll line
after the race, and the duck actually thought
| that he was going to get away with 1t. ils
| chilly nerve got me around tho collar
! band
"Say, did you ever attend night-school?'
| couldn't help but ask him. .,
| "'Why, what's the matter| he asked
agates used for taws and then could see
that the chap actually believed that he had
copied out his bet. wasted four minutes
in trying to tell him that horse that doesn't
cross the line with his jockey up isn't con-
sidered as finishing.
"'But didn't say nothin' about no jockey
finishin'' he replied, sulky-like. I bet
you that the horse 'ud finish, and there
| wasn't no agreement about where the
| jockey nd flnish--you gimme my one
thousand and fifty dollars or III see Mr.
Robert Pinkerton about you-hes a d iren
"Mr. Pnkerton, who happened to- be
passing my stool just then. and who had
never seen my funny bettor before in his
| life. had to give the fellow the heated hoof
| toward the gate when he announced that
| he was going TO take the 81 $50 out OF my
cuticle.
II had funny experience at the Apue-
| duct in the spring with a sausage-maker
who made a 500 bet with me on the
2 to In two-year-old race The
favorite won handiy by length: but the
| stewards disqualified the colt for tlagrantly
fouling a number of contending horses in
the stretch. But the bologna manufacturer
was the first man in my pay-of line even
after the announcement of the disquali-
fcation, all the same.
Tree huntert alretty,' he, said to my
pay-off man, showing the number Of his
badge and delightfully."- hopping his fore
head,
A'What horseT asked the cashier.
DE favorite, said the maker OF frank
furters.
This is where you're in bad, Hans,
I said to him from my stool. This Is
where YOU become charter member OF
the Lose-Out Society. The favorite's been
disqualified
Wat is dot vord?' he asked me with a
blank face.
Disqualified repeated. Set back,
pushed cut, RAJ ma-tal led, tlzzy-wlzzled
chucked In with the also rans--made to
| run last instead of first, in brief
But how could dot be" the sausage
maker asked, the dew Of misery beginning
to pop out of his forehead. 'Eggsbanation
me. How could he be last when he we're in
de front ven de rope vas reached, heinz
II was tempted to hand him that one
from the Book about the first being last
and the last being first but felt that that
might he too deep for him.
Your horse finished in front, all rig ht :
said to him, but the race has been taken
away from him because the jockey on him
did a lot of rough riding and fouled three or
four other horses in the race.
Vat difference does dot maig to meP
the sausage maker inquired beginning to get
hct up, I aind no joggcy-1 didn't ride
alrcttv~vot for do get disqualifgationed
out of my tree huntert tollar ven | ain'd
no rough-rider unit my horse vin-tell
me dot;
well, that was too long story, and
lot my cashier do the rest of the explana-
tioning to him. The sausage manufacturer
hung around the pay-off line for the re-
maindor of the afternoon, weeping large
globules of liquid salt on the pay-off mans
sal chel
One of the nervy bunch prodded his way
up to my seat while they were racing at
Gravcsend
Say, Billy said he to me-so many
of them call me Billy that I never clapped
an eye on in my life bcfore-'g me
marker for a hundred on the favorite,
will vou?'
we seem never to have met before,
over the cheek Of his request What
makes you think that | think that you're
good for hundred"
You needn't be so burned Grabbed
about it, was the way he squeched me,
pulling little handbook out of his pocket
MI tr,yinp N show Il I'm
good for it, all right--this book u show
You that I've got s2S5 on deposit In the
Mount Vernon Savings Bank
Then Cooper, the big whiskered ring
Pink, who happened to be standing by,
motioncd the man with the swell account
in the Mount Vernon Savings Bank to go
AWAY.
Its surprising how many men who are
utterly unknown to bookmakers coolly
ask for markers. | rarely pay any atten-
ton to them, but I did once at Bennings
last spring.
"A good-looking. middle-aged, gray
haired man who had been making 5000
bets with me for several days walked up to
nv stool before the last race of the day.
He had lost out on five straight 5000 bets.
You don't know me. he said in quiet
sort of way and so there would be no use
in my offering you check. But l would
be obliged if you would let me have n thou
sand dollar marker on the favorte in this
last raCe--that is, If such thing isn't en-
tirely contrary to your custom
Il took look at the mans square counte-
nance.
You're on, sir said to him.
at was, AZ he man had put it, a whole
lot contrary to my custom TO do anything
Of the sort. but I had one of those instan-
tanrors lunches that this quict-sroken
man was all right.
"The favoritn lost by nose. The gray
haired man approached my stool after the
race and asked me M what hotel | was
registered told him, and he walked
away. saw him getting into an automo-
bile as / made for the return train
when ! got to my hotel about three
quarters OF an hour later, found in my
letter box IN envelope conta aiming a one
thousand dollar bill and the card of a United
, States Senator from the West, with the
words, Thanks for the courtesy written in
pencil at the bottom of the card. But I'm
not taking chances like that often"
NATIONALITY or SEANEN.
More Americans ShIppcd-NumDer Of
! British sailors Decreasing.
| In ten wears the number of American