The sun., 1903-12-06

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of humber jack 8 sprncegun, mean. Now,
you let some of your hired men attend to
getting me out Of here. and you hitch up
the fastest nag you We got make Roby 1or
the frs, race ii II in the horse you've got
twenty minutes and get that $1,000 down
on Rife to win.
NO chaw, now. DO as tell you. II =
not my dough or I'd keep II in my weskit
and not Ike ORDER ing yo, around this way.
Go on. now you're uff.'
Jake the roadhouse man, a good fellow
and friend of all the horsemen was In
a sulky and tearing for Roby to get the
81 900 bet down on Rife just three minutes
later. A couple of bartenders pulled my
friend out OF the cistern and staked him
TO a change Of togs. lie warmed himself
back with his report.
Jake got back an hour after he'd started.
He had missed the first race by just face
"a Kittens whisker on the wire Jake
had slammed into the citing ring. bawling,
Who wants WIN tousan' on Rifle to the
and old Rife was already townping his
field. with 10 to against his chance.
The bookies of course, laughed al him.
Rife had beat his field the width of the
Bad Lands.
"Now, to show you the unraasonableness
their horse betting for them In spite, OF
all Of the bedevilinent through which that
friend of mine passed In his effort to get that
bet down for the Chicago express man; in
spite of everybody knowing how he'd been
dumped in his runaway and then back
heeled by himself into a deep hole In the
ground; in spite, too, of Jake the road
house mans voluble statement, and the
supporting test timony OF the boolsmakers
who had seen the Wild eyed Jake catapult
syf Ia, t.iII
and begging that il be taken on Rife
in the face ofall this. the express man never
forgave my friend for tina. s10,n0o lose
out on Rife, as he called It. :.
He pretended to take the story good
naturpdly, but in the heart of him ne was
where or another, and he'll carry that mean
life.
And the quick and constant shifting Of
betting odds is another thing that is mos
bound. when a suspicious mans money Is
being put dowr by proxy. to give him Il
chance to work up a soft Of hold-oct gore
meas against his oh!iging friend and com
missioner. It,s al! nonsense 20 sey ,hat
no square man suspects IL friend "hom
too. That may hold in an of tho other
relationships OF life, but it doesn't 60 in
racing t.
"Only last summer. at Sheepshead Bay,
friend Of mine, az white and aboveboard
a man as ever laced his own shoes. got
himself into mean hash in his frantic effort
to get down another mans money on u
horse whose price was being chopped every
time the bookies took a fresh grip on the
pencils
lesson as to the imbecility of betting another
mans coin OIL a racetrack. and so when
a friend one morning passed him $500.
and asked him TO paste 1t on long priced
good thing that had been smeared up for
killing. he foolishly took the money.
There ought to be at least 90 to against
the trick his friend told him. but, any
how. don't you taks Axe worse , than l 90 so o;d sod
you cant get that, don't bet the CON-
We'll, this good-natured commissioner
for friend was alert and waiting for the
betting on that race to open. but there were
a lot of other ones, wise to the trick, who
were doing the same thing. They we're
stools. waiting for the first line Of figures
-Whae!ock and Lichtenstein opened the
horse {, 1oo to 1. and that, Of oourse, is what
the re.,c os tho ring made it. My friend
with the $500 OF proxy money. in his effort
to edge his way up to a stool to set some
or this. accidentally trod on another
"Iie got paste on the jaw for that, and
he got right back with one to the wind
ana an uppercHt. nsii t'e ."o "Sh. "e
q clinch 4 pair OF Pinks swooped upon
them our seconds later, and IL was the
procession to the Eato for the pair OF them.
My friend knew one of the Pinks,,
Give us 9 chance to get pals bundle n
down he Whisper ed to the Pink. and then
I'll nudge to the gate with you don't
want the fellow to give me the scream II
that long one wins
"The Pinkert on man was decent about
It, and glancing about to see II his ubiaul-
tous chief. that everywhere Robert man,
was rubbering, and finding, for, wonder,
that he wasn't. he let my friend slip up to
Wheelocks book TO take peek at the
prices,
'-The good thing had already been whit
tied down to 10 to I. and that. OF course:
according to the instruction, lei my friend
out so far as getting the other mans $500
down was concerned. But he liked the
thing so much himself that he got down
$500 of his own money in two books on the
trick at the 10 to figure, and he took 1t
all straight.
Then he put himself into the hands
of the Pinkerton man to be conducted,
with the touchy chap with the corn to the
gate for fighting, according to the rule.
They both bought new badges and came
back in time to see the good thing go through
well. a lot of knockers saw him CASH
ing In his 5000 bundle after the race, and
they magnif1ed the size OF the wad about
ten times. My friend returned the $500
to the other man and explained to him
how it happened that he had failed to make
the bet. .tt. ....
at didn't go, OF course. The knockers
told the other man how they had seen my
friend cashink in a roll as big as mountain
hotel bedquilt, and the other man believes
to the present, minute that my friend got
down the $500, straight at 100 to and drilled
him out Of pat $50 900.
"Up to this bend into the stretch I've
been talking about the individuality
on a racetrack for other men. But ac-
cepting woman's money to bet on a horse
race-well, for the, pinhead thatll consent
to do that. the green ticket for the conk
chateau, and let him be glad that he gets
out Of IL that easy. y,
BIT BY 4 MOUNTAIN LION.