The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-30
FOSTERS RACE AS
WRITTEN AT THE TRACK
Local Sports Think There Are 'Other' Horses
Here Besides Tommy

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bet IS at 200 to 1, while John Boone.
the entry clerk, was in 81 at 100 to l.
Roller Got Tip Too Late.
81 had just bet $40 on the favorite,"
said Billy Roller. when I met Jim
Hand and he advised me to play this
Foster horse. 1 had four one dollar
bills in my pocket, and did not have
the nerve to bet that all straight, but
split it up straight and third. 1 won
1920 to the race, but there would be
some tall doings around our quarters
tonight if 1 had met Mr.. Hand earlier
in the day"
The average Washingtonian loves a
long shot better than he does Mary
land fried chicken or old sweet Vir-
ginia ham, and all the local pikers
sent in their dollar notes on Tommy
Foster simply because of the price.
Then, too, one of these little racing
publications which spring into being
with the beginning of the local sea-
son tipped him to win, and local pride
is strong here.
Local PiISers Win HatfuI.
Two of the local pikers contributed
| a dollar each to the success of Tom
my Foster, and were paid off in small
bills of the variety known as zone
spots" which filled a hat. They then
proceeded to a quiet place at the low
er end of the ring and spent the next
! hour checking up to see that they had
not been short changed, counting the
| bills from one hat into another, the
envy of the less fortunate long shot
| players.
| When Frank Tyler balanced up his
| sheet he found that he had taken IN
| 500 on the horse to win at an average
Lee oh
| money than a majority of the layers
here handle to three races. Lchten-
stein, Smell and other layers found big
| deficits in their bank rolls after the
! sheet had been paid off
| DICK stockton, popular clubman
| of the Capitol City, relieved Tommy
| Alexander of crisp $1,000 bank note
! for an investment of IS, and his 1udg-
ment in racing matters is the envy of
all the Washington swell set to-
night.
Sloan Gets 81 900.
Cash Sloan was congratulated on all
sides for his victory, and it can be said
that Cash could not have ridden any
harder or extended himself any further
| to win had it been Suburban or Flu
turity instead Of a $400 purse for nom
| winners in 1902 or 1903. Sloan received
| $1,000 for his ride. but the knowledge
| that he had finally won a race after
a weeks hard hustling was more to
| him than the money
| Pretty good, amt it, to break the
ice with a winner like that?' he said.
II tell you that judges stand looked
bigger to me than the Capitol as we
came through the stretch, for l knew
that my horse did not have a whole
lot left. But we won, and 1 hope it
won't be so long between heats after
this
The race, aside from furnishing a
topic for sore" talk and other discus
sion such as follows a killing of the
kind, is a source of much encourage
ment to several horse owners in this
city. During the winter months Eos
ter ran in several brushes with other
local horses, and a few of them made
the running interesting for him, while
others have made as good and some
claim even better time than he. They
dope it, consequently that the other
horses here, If put on the Eastern and
Middle West tracks, would give good
accounts of themselves. In view of the
fact that the other local horses will
leave in a few days for the West, the
argument is interesting, and their prog
ress will be watched with interest by
the local sports.
Foster will be kept at Bennings I'M
til the end of that meet, and will then
be shipped West. He may be entered
at Benning's tomorrow. He will also,
in all probability, meet the other Sa-
Vannah horses in races in the West
Just how much money Alex Doyle won
at Bennings Friday cannot be learned
here, as his friends do not care to say.
1t is known, though, that he was be-
hind the horse with no small amount
as letter received from him, written
the morning of the race, said that Fos-
ter was in the best condition, and he
was going to back him. How much
the long odds scared the owner as it
is reported to have scared the trainer,
is not known, but those who know the
owner wear a happy smile. 1t cannot
be learned just how much the local men
who knew of the event won, but they,
too, feel considerably delighted. ]. r.
Hand, who is mentioned in the Tele-
graph article as the trainer, is hand
ling the horse at Bennings, but P. MUIR
ply, who is now at the Doyle track, is
the man who conditioned him and put
him in his prime condition.