Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10
EASY COME, EASY 60

| New York that Tod Sloan, the once great
jockey. Is all but broke in France, and that
| he's working for a French automobile
| manufacturing concern at very moder-
| ate salary" said well-known Washing
ton bookmaker, a member of the Metro
| politan Turf Association, who was here
recently attending to real estate interests.
II am bound to say that nobody appears
| to be much surprised over this informa-
| ton.
Il don't suppose that there ever was a
| 10O-pound man who had SO much advice
| and good advice-lavished upon him as
| little Tod Sloan in the years when he was
| spinning around New York, blowing In a
| Nizam of Hyderabad's income. and never
| getting the clutch on himself long enough
| to dope 1t out that 1t was bound 10 ram
| hard some time or other, and that when
| the wet came the track was going to be
| heavy and holding.
| Five years ago this fall. when Toody was
| able to climb on board a $50 plug ana,
| with the aid of a caressing cluck ana a
pair of hands that no woman's or blind
| PERSONS ever euualed for delicacy or SEN
sitiveness. make the cheap skate run over
| and disgrace smashing fields of stake ami
] mails worth their five figures apiece, l took
| my turn. all the rest of EN- did. at try
| ing to hurl few of the wise lines into
young Mister Sloan-
| How much day does it cost you and
| yourself to live. Tod?' l asked him one
| night in the Ahkound's suite of the Broad
| way hotel where he had pretty nearly a
| whole floor for his chambers.
| Bout two NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. more,
| said he. blowing a smoke wreath from a
| cigar that was big enough and black
| enough to paralyze the digestion OF rous-
| tabout coon on a Mississippi river steam
| boat He had those cigars the same kind
| that the Car of Russia before the present
| one used to smoke made for him In Cuba
and they cost him 500 thousand, pat.
| "'Uh-huh.' said L. Got a few pfennings
tucked away underneath the oilcloth on the
| top shelf of the kitchen cupboard, haven
| you? l asked him.
| I'm worth about three hundred thou
| sand said To-day swelling up.
"'Y'are. heyr said I. Well, that's a
| pretty cute-looking stack of blues. isn't it?
How long d'you expect to go on riding?
"Oh. until haven't got any molars,
| replied the testy little jock. impattently.
| Let's chin about something else
| 30. k said l. but hold a minute.
| What you want to do is to get up tomor-
| row morning in time for an early breakfast.
| and then you want to blaze right down
| town and tie up about s25O.OOO Of that
| dough of yours in an annuity-soak it away
| so tight and hard that you'll never be able
| to loosen it up with Maxim gun. That's
what you want to do.
| He yaWned and wondered If the last act
of one Of the girly-girly shows on Broad
! way was over vet. There sure wasn't one
| eighth of a listen in Tod in those years.
| a parlor car on the way to the Sheepshead
Bay track when no less a wise fish that
| Pittsburg Phil tried to hand the diminutiYe
| jock the same kind of a steer. Pittsburg
| has got topheavy bundle sailed away
| himself. in the shape Of an annuity.
1.-The way you horse-riding people look
at these things is too deep for me- said
| Smith to Sloan. but want to tell you that
| it's a mighty comfortable thing to be able
! to turn over in bed on stormy night when
| the sleets beating against the windows
and make funny grin at the wallpaper
and say to yourself that. matter what
happens. you've got the game skinned COM
ing and going and both ends from the mid
dle-let 'er sleet. You can do that when
| you've got an income that's just got to
| drift your way until they fold you away in
| your little wooden overcoat Get next,
Tod, and play safety. Rig yourself out in
one of these you-can' t-break-me blankets,
and you'll feel so good about 1t in few
years from now that you'll be making dents
on the back over the fact that you got wise
in time
But nix, neither Phil nor anybody else
ever got away with advice bestowed upon
Tod. Even with all of his waste and tre
| mendous extravaganza he was pretty nigh
half million to the gOod when the English
turf authorities told him that it wouldn't
be any use for him to apply for a renewal
| of his license. But he's never stopped toss
| ing it away. Only a few months ago the
mortgage on a house OF his down at
Gravesend was foreclosed for few pal
try thousands. and they're saying on the
New York tracks now, the fellows recent
ly back from France, that Tod isn't much
better than a chauffeur for the French au-
tomobile firm now.
Jockeys and money don't seem to min
gle any better than oil and water I could
count you on the fingers of one hand the
ex-jocks of prominence in this country who.
| when they We're in the big way of business
| had enough foxiness to cache away a few
rouleauX of the git metal against the day
| of the deluge. and. not counting the bows
who are under the control of their fathers
| or responsible guardians 1 could tab off
| on the fingers OF both hands the jocks who
drawing big salaries and fees TODAY are
planting even a fraction of their draw
| down in the smoke house The best and
highest-priced jockey in Amerfca-and that
! means IN the World-today is little Grover
Cleveland RULER, and that boy is blowing
| in his vast income like a sudcsed sailor He
| was hopelessly spiffdcated only the other
| afternoon when he was engaged to ride
| three stake horses in stake races He
couldn't walk. much less ride and the three
| fine horses were beaten in a row owing To
| incompetent jockeyship involving the Ioss
| OF tens of thousands of dollars to his en-
ployers. ~ VIII
| There Is really nothing queer about tho
| ridlng Youngsters prodigality or IMPROVE
! dence or whatever you call it when Won
| take into consideration how little ednca
! ton they get and what veritable yanni
| gans the poor little tads are. They arc
chucked up on the backs Of horses AZ an
| age when other shavers of their wears ara
collecting cigarette box fronts and plavjnp
Skinny and mumbFety-peg. and that knocks
their chance for bit of schooling.
one OF the most prominent Jockeys in
Afierica-a boy who generally rides at
behnlng in the spring-can barely read his
name, and he can't write it. He's been
setthg an income of $4,000 a year from
famous millionaire, an ex-membar Of a
CABINET, for several years now and making
enough money out of extra mounts tn carr
ms annual income up around the SEQ uG,
nSure. Dye suppose that he has saved or
Is saving any money? Well he NAV have
rev thousand dollars-mere chicken feed
IN proportion to his earnings for wears ma st
tucked away somewhere but he hasn't
got dollar invested, except in steam
launches and catboats and devil wagons
ana truck like that, which If sold wOuidn't
Ietcn MIN in enough to live on for six
months at the rate he has been living ever
since he got near the top of the heap az a
RI rider. p O." q
Jockeys are men-o'-war's men. all right
without the uniforms"
A Millionaire Inventor.