The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-12
WoN 0'' 0E AND QUIT.
Men and Women Whose Race
track Winnings Didn't Go Back
to the Bookmakers.

"All Of the lucky ones who win good
bundles on the georges do not shovel
the money right back into the bookies
satchels,' said a racing man living at
Sheepshead Bay, who has watched the
ebb and flow of the horse-betting tide
hereabouts for more than quarter Of
century. mo longer ago than yesterday
afternoon met up with two lucky winners
on the horses Of Numerically opposite
types.
"0ne of them was poolroom piker OF
many years standing, who on the previous
afternoon had walloped an uptown pool
room on five-horse combination. HIS
ticket called for 81 500 to $40, and it slid
through. 1t was probably the frst bundle
Of money Of that size that the piker had
ever felt the bulge OF In his jeans, and what
do you suppose he did with it2
He didn't stake himself to so much as
a shave, and he was about as seedy-looking
a dusty when he planted the whole $500
wad on old Zoroaster to cop the mile-and-a-
half race on the grass. yesterday, as ever
I saw outside of the four-bits betting ring.
Old Zoroaster got to thinking Of the days
OF his youth as he neared the wire, so that
he was No. Q to catch the judges eye, and
the piker, with conk on him like Tahiti
mango, gnawed on betting ring stanchion
and cussed over what he called bum racing
luck.
THE other fellow was my laundryman,
over in Brooklyn. He was a sorter in
laundry last year, and he used to drill
down to the tracks once in a while when
he could fan his boss into believing that
he had toothaohe or young one with
the collie.
He landed on Capt. CASTOR on the day
that once-in-a-while plug passed first by
the string with 800 to against him, and
he had $40 down straight When he pinched
out that 5000 he ran out of the grounds
SO fast that three Pinks chased him to the
gate, thinking that he was dip who had
been tumbed to while trying to snag a
leather.
lie walked up and down Brooklyn for
two weeks before he found just the site
that suited him for laundry, but he found
it finally, and he's been making money out
of it ever since.
1--WE got a good thing for you to-day,
Bud | said to him yesterday when
dropped into his place for my lingerie.
"'No you haven't--for me-not giving
you the flip reply was the way he came
right back with grin 'I'ma to favorite
with myself for the Soapsuds Stakes down
at the Tubberino track, near Wringersvile,
and that's good enough for mine I'll go
as far as you like if you want to play beam
l.. I>.Nf ~ 10
even numbers Of the trolley cars buzzing
by out in front. But money? Me bet
sure-enough money on the Shetlands any
more2 The last three seats for smokers
-Off and on for several years past I've
had for the Sunday dinner a couple OF capon
from the Long Island chicken ranch of
friend of mine who won out his feather
farm on a horse bet, and has never seen
nor nankered to see, the flash Of the oolors
since.
But said to him few days before
the Suburban, just TO hear his reply, 'you'Ie
going to take look at the big race and put
a little piece of coin down, aren't your
He raised the lids of three or four in
eubators and showed me whole lot OF
hundreds Of live eggs just about to pop,
1.-THE Hatch Sweepstakes--thats ex-
citing enough for me, he replied, and you
wouldn't call man with such an interest
In his incubators a victim of the horse
bug. .,
pony game when he found that he was in
right called for 80, 900 TO $40, and the name
on the ticket was that of Gwynne, that
won at Washington a few years ago at
$50 to l.
my daughters receive letters once in a
while from 9 girl who is studying painting
in Paris. Until two years ago she was
making slender living painting little
flower pictures and selling them to tho
dealers for very small money.
"She accompanied my family TO the
Sheepshead track on the afternoon, three
years ago, when Mixer won his race at any
price you asked the stoolman for up TO
post time. The name Mixer made q hit
with the girl, who had never visited a race
track before in her life. on account of its
suggestion of color mixing; and she got
down $40, about four-fifths Of her skinny
savings, on Mixer at 200 to !,
She didn't ask me anything about the
horse before the race, nor, In fact, say
anything about the bet TO me. IL she had
told me that she intended tr invest $50 OF
her poor little money on Mixer I'd have
had the matron turn the key on her.
when Mixer trotted home first / hap
sitting on the stand between two of my
daughters. and my alarm was aroused over
the Wilderness of her face.
What's the matter with your little
friendH asked my daughters.
"'Oh, nothing they replied, except that
she's Just won $4,000 and she Is probably
going to faint and then they got around
her:
"She didn't faint, but she got pretty
close TO it. did the collecting FOR the girl
, and ten days later my family saw her of
on the French liner, And that's $4,000
that the bo0kies will never know the feel
of any more.
"Theres level-headed runt running a
drinking buffet In the wholesale dry e IDS
| region of New York who inflated n-case
note into nearly $1,000 at Morris Park e g
afternoon couple of falls ago. On the
| following day he ordered tfteen suits Of
| clothes at $50 the suit, staked himself TO n
$3.50 finger-glmmer, and Invested the re-
| mairng $4,000 in the buffet rum plant,
which Ia gilt mine.
| 'HCrses| he says to you nowadays
when you happen to mention the ponies to
him. What dye mean-them wooden
steeplechase naGs at Corey?'
"Plenty OF the fellows who pull out tidy
| wins go onto the dead line in the main ring
or start to make book In the cheaper field,
stick to strictly percentage states, cut out
! the betting altogether, and go on from
year TO year with fine balances at the wind
up Of the seasons. many OF them eventually
landing MS members OF the Metropolitan
Turf Assc citation. could name a
| who have never made an outside bet since
they first copied the rolls that enabled
| them to put their states up
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