Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-23
TIPS FROM TAMMANY
Horse Racing in Connection
With Politics.
GAME SPORTS. ALL
HIT THE BOOKMAKERS HARD AT
TIMES.
When a wigwam Nag Comes in First
the Bowery is Always
Flush.
GAME SPORTS. ALL
pecial Correspondence of The Evening Star.

NEW YORK, May %. 1908.
There's fun on New York race track
when a Tammany horse wins. A Tammany
horse Is, Of course, a thoroughbred
owned by or named after a. Tam
many man. A large number of the
richer Tammanyites are able to afford the
expensive luxury Of racing colors and sew
eral of them own first-rate racers. Vir-
tually all of the Tammanyites, rich and
poor alike. play the ponies," and when it
is considered that Tammany has something
like 225OOO enrolled members on its tabu-
lations it may readily be imagined how
savage a jolt Is inflicted upon the book
makers and the proprietors of Greater New
York poolrooms when Tammany horse
reaches the wire first. For the upholders
Of the tiger. unless expressly tipped other
wise, get their checks down. on every
Tammany horse entered to race no matter
whether the animal has any apparent
chance to win or not. Even those among
the Tammanyites who are not habftual
bettors on the races watch the entries for
the Tammany horses and send their wag-
ers, large or small in proportion to the
size Of their bank rolls to track or pool
room with unfailing loyalty every time a
Tammany thoroughbred-no matter what
the animals class-is scheduled to race
On day when Tammany racer is due to
in a state of nervous excitement until the
ticker relieves the tension by telling the
story of victory or defeat for de organi-
zation mutt" While the Tammanyite I'M
fiinchingly backs every Tammany horse
that faces the barrier on principle. vet
there are times when the tip from high
quarters or certain Tammany animals is
so strong that every dead game in the
outfit pulls up de kitchen oilclot and
stands to go fiat broke on the tip.
An Incident in Point.
Such a tip began to sizzle through the
Tammany districts of the town one morn
ing last week. A horse named Tim D.,
thus christened in honor of the saturninely
good-humored congressman elect from the
Bowery, Timothy Dry Dollar Sullivan,
was sent out to de bunch as
and the bunch were, advised to "fall t. dis
ting fr all yo1se has got an can pinch
for it's in" By 10 o'clock in the morning
the only Tammaqyites who didn't have the
tip on t the Tin, Tim p good ting" were the
Blackwelrs Island Tammany walters in
the CHUCK Meat Jacks restaurants all
along the BowerY threw up their jobs and
''ast f'r their tirhe' in order to repair to
track or poolroom to get their bundles
down on the 9orse named after the in
vincible Tim. rTammany transfers and
1ongshoremen dove, into their dungarees
for their aces or :" two spots to send out
to the track on the ting OATS in" Tam
many hoboes and panhandiers waxed ex-
traordinarily energetic in soliciting the cop
pers and pieces of minor silver to play the
horse that couldn't lose in the ten-cent and
quarter and half dollar handbooks of the
barrel houses and an the way from White
hall street to 18th de layout was in a
sort of suppressed frenzy of anticipation.
Thousands OF the square jawed and check
suited Tammanyites who had the price of
a in ad tn mia n
notes to wager on Tim D. hocked to the
Norris Park track to root for the name
sake of the mighty Sullivan. and when the
two-year-old paraded to the post he was the
recipient of an ovation such as the peerless
Salvador himself scarcely ever got during
his marvellous turf career
The bookmakers, remembering the out
come of many previous tips on Tammany
horses, welcomed the tigers with Sardohic
grins. and when their states went up the
price against the chances of Tim D. was
seen to be 80 to /. Then de push swoop-
ed upon the layers like the wolf on the fold,
eventually compelling the price, makers to
rub to to l and even to lower fig
ureS.
Won Out in Walk.
Tim D. walked in''-"he come home on
de chin-strapsky," as the thousands of
bass-lunged Tammany rooters at the track
expressed tt-and bookmakers on the Nor
ris Park betting ring dead lines" went
out of business in sets of fours as the re-
suit of that one race. The most conserva-
tive turf writer of the New York press
estimated that the bOokmakerS and pool
room keepers of New York lost $5O0.O0O to
the Tammany crowd on that Tim D.
triumph. THE things that they did, on
the Bowery that night-'they" being the
victory-flushed and rum-reddened Tam
many denizens Of that unspeakable thor
oughfare-were sufficient to keep the re-
serve cops busy until the dawn showed in
the orange east
Perhaps half a dozen of the big Tam
many tips on Tammany horses go troo"
in the course of New York's annual racing
season. And 1t always happens that when
the Tammany tips do work out right the
fellows who lay the odds get hurt. for the
Iammany tips Of the false alarms and
morning glory variety are so numerous
that the prtce-makers are always willing
to take chances in laying figures against
the Tammany thoroughbreds. There was a
Iammany horse running on the New York
tracks a few years ago who crippled so
many famous bookmakers that 1t would
be difficult to remember the names of all
of them. The horses name was Dolando.
but he was called 1.-The Beef and Beans
horse. because his owner. quiet but eff
fectfve member of the Tammany outfit, was
the proprietor of a restaurant on Park
Row. DolandO was a good animal, but
the people behind him raced him as an
occasional horse-he was variously
known. in addition to his Beef and Beans
nickname. as ''Old Once In a While, May
be-, "Out for it Sometimes" and when
He's Ready" Dolando would plug along
In the rear Of his fields four or five times
in succession. There are negative tips as
well as positive ones. in the Tammany cir
Gle. and on these days when Dolando wasn't
out for it" the word that there would
be 'nottin' .dofflfs would be quietly but
thoroughly circulated among de gang"
and the Tammah.yftes would stay off," In
accordance with THESE dead straight instruc-
tons. Dplando's succession of defeats
would cause the aboSkmakefs to ''hunch'
the price against iitYie animal every time
he went to the p6sts.Nn1. And then, when Do
iando was abon1d due, to face the flag with
Is or 20 to 1 chafked Zip against his chances
the TammanyiteS wthld get the word to
'unbelt." and old Orlando would hop out
at the drop of theS bunting and proceed to
make show OF his Company. In spite Of
what some of tbe New York turf writer's
say. the New York racing officials are far
more complaisaIft and Ienient in these bare
faced cases than, ths officials of the west
ern race tracks. ,anditthe people behind the
Dolando horse were never ruled on, al
though the animals constant reversals of
form were the talk of the turf world for
several years. The tigers sent many
staggering bookmaker to the Stag heap"
and caused the shutters to go up on many
a pool room through their manipulation OF
the old Dolando horse.
Carry Political Bias Into Racing.