The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-08

the Eastern turf few Of the regulars
knew him by sight. The tout didn't
know his man, of course.
Cap, he said, addressing the man
from the coast, there's little sleeper of a
colt in tn Secon' race that been sleepin'
wit an splittin' bran rnashes an carrots
wit FIR two weeks-ever since tn colt
got off tn California cars; an he's goin'
t. breeze home tday wit his name
a-f1owin' like Coney Islam gals on a
roller coaster. He'll be 40 t. 1. Git piece
O. change down, all tree ways. an pay
y'r rent an tn installment man.
is the horse so good as all that, do
you think?' inquired the Californian, who
was a millionaire many times over. inno-
Gently:
that's all, solemnly remarked the tout.
"'Pm glad you think so we'll Of my
horse, young man., saff the Californian.
But he's as good as YOU say he is-may-
"The tout wasn't in the least abashed
over his break.
Say he inquired of the elderly man,
are you old man Blank?
That's my name,' said the WeSterner,
good naturedly, Il
We'll, say, look here, cap said the
tout then. with funny switch from his
former confidence, how Is that nag o
your'n playwright?
90 I don't see how he can lose.' was the
good natured but thoroughly meant re-
ply & the ,rsse uan yr arIght said the
tout, with genuine gratitude, and then
he Jumped IN and got every man that he
could neck on the grounds to go down
hook, line and sinker 'rIp ontthe Californians
1.-THE horse was one of the least con-
sidered colts of the WeSterner's string.
went to the post at an average price OF
% H.,
was a celebrated one. and the tout got
such a big slice of it that he started to
booking himself on the Western tracks,
and is on the line out there yet.
After he became senator, the Call-
fornian used to tell his colleagues, with
whole lot of amusement, of the time Wnen
he had touted a tout onto one of MS
horses, the bOokmakers being so larrupeo
in consequence that he, the senator, was
never able to get better than 1 TO 4
against the colt during the rest of the
runners racing career.
Owing to his rough dress, uncouth
manner, and the fact that he used 70 pc
fond of displaying big wads of yellow
currency, old Bill DAILY then, as now, one
dition on the American turf, was a great
mark for the touts who didn't know MIN
by sight.
"One afternoon a newcomer among the
touts, a fellow just in from Chicago, VINO
didn't know the faces of any Of the East, St,
ern racing men, sidled alongside old BIZ
in a corner of the betting shed-the old
man was having an awful struggle with
himself as to whether he'd better bet
ten-dollar note on the chance of horse
of his that was just about to run-and
the tout said to him:
Pat, there's a rough neck owner OF
hosses on this lot that's a world beater
when it comes t. KNOWN when. jes'
been down benin tn cid orchard fence
pumpin' him-his nanaeis Bill Daly-ever
hear O. him? Bills got lone In this this race race
that tcollld waltz in hackward-Biu says
so hisself-jes' told mean Bill never
gran'pa. git inp n
'''Stow that, me chinny fri'nd, said
the old horseman. Days horse has no
more chance t,day than "a mountain goat.
Play Charlie Oxx's horse, naming the
skate, and get tn money. Me horse Is
only out tday FIR tn wor-rk-Im. Daily
meself.'
"The tout hustled of and got half a
dozen mushies to plant Bduff on the Oxx
nag across the board ata100, 40 and ~.
and then Bill winked eRaftily to himself
over his side trackingo9of one tout and
put down his commission and ADVISED all
of his friends to get DOWN on his morse,
which was fixed for a! a!hog slaughterlng.
The OK horse won In a. puff.
Thanks, gran'pa, here's your plt,
said the gloating touts in the in trip TO
New York, to old mapt DAILY, and ne
tossed battered dime to the sore ana
angry sage of Hartford.
''The old man pulled the tout over his
knee. unscrewed his wooden leg and
lathered the Chicago ring buzzer with 1t
until his arm ached''