The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-26

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'barn, even il he was beat to-day the owner
unperturbed, said TO me that evening
When do you want 10 run him againv
up to you, pal l replied, with the
grin. You're my trainer now, you know
and it's your end to keep track OF THESE
| little details
"A week later ne came to me and asked
| my permission--that's the way he put IL
and il sounded funny enough to me--to drol
tho horse into what he thought was a soft
| spot couple of days later. gave him the
| required permission.
"One Of his other horses had in the mean
| time won 1000 purse for him, anu ne
| got this 81 900 down on the horse that lie
| had hooked with me at to 1. Inc morse
! came home in polka, and then the owner
| came TO me and Solemnly inquired II
| wanted to sell my horse back to him.
II did. of course, and that was the wind
up of my unofficial. unregistered, week-ions
| ownership of racehorse. | got the purse
that he won while owned him, but didh
have the satisfaction which they say owners
experience, OF seeing the horse with my
colors. However. the color OF the purse
was good enough for mine. it'll, ~
Notwithstanding the Efforts which we
make, and have to make. to keep under VIZ, NE
shelter of the foliage, were constantly
being rooted out by shines and pikers VINO
rubber around until they get next; or ,hinN
think they get next, to what We re DONG
around the tracks, and we have troubles Oh
our own in shooting them away
Some Of them have got the nerve TO try
to sanCbag us on the strength OF what they
think they know, but could mention one
OF us that hasn't stood for any Oh Ihese
shake-downs M to the present moment,
A stable hanger-on came to me the o!ner
day. before the races, and, herding me- tlto
ieafy place. he pulled from his pocket
thoroughbreds racing plate and tried to
What for?' asked him. beginning the
back-away.
What do git on it?' he asked me, con-
I'D ntly. It's one Of de plates what Sal
vator wore wen ne beat de VOLS mile
record at Monmout', an IT, wort bundle
What you passin me on it!'
'What'sthe Use of wasting good smelt bait
in fishing for shad when you ought to know
that shad don't take the hookT l asked the
lout, continuing the baCk-away.
" Youse don't want t cit dc hot feet ofi'n
de groun's, do youse, Mister Shad!' ne
asked me. cockily Me an Bobby Pinker-
ton chews de same COB O gum-youse
don't want t. overlook dat
That was the coarsest kind OF work. OF
course, but lot of these gaspipe wfelders
have sot the bug that we're In such posi-
ticn owing to the nature OF our business
that we're virtually forced to stand for the
hurry touches whenever they're framed up:
"A few weeks ago at Sheepshead Bay,
was sitting up in my out-of-the-way corner
of the stand. doing a little checking up,
when observed ont Of the tail OF my eye,
a fellow a few seats below rnbbering az
me. fash woman sat alongside of him;
"The shine gave me the salute when he
caught my eye, although l had never seen
him before, that I knew of. and l passed
him as choppy duck Of the head as could
Then I saw the woman pull big three,
stsne diamond ring OF her finger and hand
IL to the fellow He Immediately darted
up TO where l was sitting, stopped over,
and tried to slip me the ring.
About 5000 will do he said TO me,
trying to be mysterious
II don't do business with geams Of that
sort, on the race track or anywhere else.
/ wouldn't lend a male individual the price
of a cake of dog soap on 900 gig-lamp
II was certain that he had wheedled the
gaud out of some woman.
I'm not making book, told the fellow
The rings down below, beneath the stand.
"'Oh, YOU know what mean, he said
trying to wink me into cheerfulness. a
two-hundred dollar loan on this, YOU know.
Guess again l told him. You're in
wrong. I'm a chiropodist, and I'm real
busy right now, at that
well, the duck got his weight-lifter's
weskit on right away then
You're a-going to pass me 800 on chs
thing or I'm going to show you up was the
way he came at me, and he was quite some
hoarse around the tonsils. You can't
do it for some and pass others along, and
get by with it. Me for the long roar from
the top of the cliffs il you try that on. and
you hear me-
THE cooling-out department for piking
slung shooters is four aisles to the LETT,
where those two cops are standing l said
to the tinhorn stranger. II You don't
want to stand for pinch by the Pinks on
my charge-and I'll make t-that you
tried to tout me on horse go AWAY
ale went, for he knew that IL he ever got
edged once off the grounds on anybody "a
complaint that he was engaged in toutlng
the rule-off would be permanent. That
threat to have the would-be garroters cor
rallied on the touting charge Is one of the
few edges we've got, and we often have
to work il.
"A couple of afternoons ago the man
from whom I buy groceries In New York
edged over to me. all hst up and excited
lust before the fifth race, and, unscrewinR
his big yellow diamond stud, asked me to
let him have hundred on 1t. He's square
chap but I could see that he had the hOli-
day horse betting hectic flush, and hated
TO soc nm Nuthp HIS upoi,,y, Pai' 'uNai ~
as the fifth race was one of those shreddy
affairs for apprentice jocks, and there we're
fourteen bad maidens in the race Maiden
horses and maiden jocks--I wonder If any
of them ever beat that combinations
"'What do you want to bet on?' asked
my grocerymsn, just to draw him out.
",Oh, any old thing he replied, fever
ishly. just want to get bet down, that's
all. Gimme the hundred. What dye like?'
az reluctantly let him have the hundred
and, of course, he lost it, But that's the
way il would he with all of the holiday crowd
il there were wide-open pawnshops on the
tracks. They'd all be jamming their stuff
in lust to get a bet down on any old thing
and then their walls on the go.home ride
would make the lamentations Of Jeremiah
sound happy by comparison