The Washington times., 1903-09-20
HOW HE GOT HIS START HOUSEKEEPING
"a Washington Government Experience With "a
Pbnger LTIomnediu old by himself

to happen today. When you get estab
lished you want to settle down and be
/ have.
Il didn't make any reply. figuring tha
he was probably Eighty from loss o.
sleep.
Left in a Cold Sweat.
He left me en- the stand and disa2,
peared in the direction Of the barns
when we reached the track When he
came back he nodded me over into fai
angle os the stand
johann worked FIVE eighths IN a
minute by lantern light here day before
yesterday morning, he said to me
That's good enough in itself But
they're going to make It better Jo-
dams going to get the strongest hyp1
punch Of the quick juice. Just before the
race, that was ever pumped into an
equine system. That1l make him do the
five-eighths in nothing. Gimme your
fifteen
4" What's Jodann's Drice7" asked
him, slightly demurring.
Hundred when I left the ring. but
It's $50 now. all o.. that he replied. arr
ily 'Jodann. you know, has finished last
In fourteen straight races
What's hts price to finish last
again. l asked, with a dreary attempt
at sarcasm. for I was tired ana Sleepy.
Gimme your ifteen.' repeated
L'Hommedieu. in the tone of a drill
master. which riled me.
" Not on your Internal daguerreo-
type told him. It's small profits and
sure returns that I'm looking for from
now on. and III give 'em ali the odds
they want TO get the small profits.
what's the favorite's price TO shown
. Two to 1 to win, to 5 the place.
to to show said L'Hommedieu. de-
liberately restraining himself, as he
afterward told me.
Well / said, passing him over NV
sl5, get mine down on the favorite to
shcw-s15 TO win Sc. seeg'
Il Hommedieu took the money with
out word and darted into the betting
ring anxiously awaited his return. but
DC didn't come back with my favorite-to-
show ticket. although the horses were
already on their way to the post.
The horses had pust got OF when /
found Steve standing quietly at my
shoulder. was all eyes for the favorite
and when saw that horse. that only had
to run third for me. as 1 thought. hold
ing his own in the stretch in second posi-
ton. / had no eyes for the horse that
leo the procession and came laundering
under Tire wire ten lengths In front OF
my horse, which finished second by a
head.
A Plunge With SIS.
'Confound It, said to L'Hommedieu.
Why didn't l play that favorite to run
second? 1 could ha' got sl2 to SIS
You weren't riding the favorite, b.
l. Hommedieu told me. and his voice was
peculiarly hoarse-
4" i wasn't l bawled. rounding upon
him. Dye mean to tell me that you put
the best fifteen : had down on
On Johann. PAL said L'Hommedieu.
still with that hoarseness in his voice,
and there's the winners number hang
ing out over there. Compare the num-
Der with your programme
Why. johann won't 1 croaked, scar
ed at the very thought OF IT,
=" In breeze. by the length of a Phil
adelphia alley. said LHommedieu. and
he passed over three separate tickets,
issued by different bookmakers. to me.
Each of the tickets read johann. $3.50
to So
I've got the mates to them, said
L'HOmmedieu. and he gave the fash at
his three 800 to s. johann pasteboards.
- I wouldn't have believed that there
was so much money as s2.25O in the
world II anybody had told me so before
l cashed those tickets. After we'd cash
ed. L'Hommedieu told me that looked
both chalky and sleepy. aud I went back
to Washington.
." I've never seen a race since. Put
I've kept house a lot since,
"L'Hommedieu won $40 600 more dur
Ing the remaining three days of the St.
Asaph meeting. and the 80 ESQ win that
set me up in housekeeping mot on the
excitement PLAN, and hxed me out with
my first nestegg for a bank account.
started Steve L'Hommedieu off as a
plunger in fact. He's been a digit bet
tor for the four and FIVE fingers TO a race
ever since. He's gone TO the mat sever
al times for the count. but / doubt If
they'll ever lose him. for he has the
nerve OF desperate. and it's only the
fiaccid ones that go into the turf dis
card