The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-01
ODOPE" IN BUFFALO RACING.
FILIPINO GUILE LIGHTENS SOME
AMERICAN POCKETS.
New sport Started ny Soldiers In the Philip
pines With Carabaos-Native Cones
AIons and Beats Them At Their Own
Game-How tho Trick Was Done.


pines With Carabaos-Native Cones
Alons and Beats Them At Their Own
Game-How the Trick Was Done.
you fellows talkin racehc ,es and
dorin' maxi, 8 me weary. There may be
wise men In these United States, but them
new fellow citizens OF ourn over In the
Philippines can give US cards and spades
and the big c, ino mt f1in' races"
. So spoke the old corporal, who has sen
service in Cuba and Manila. as he sat with
several turfmen one day last week.
Il never told yousc fellows about the
crooked racin' game gets up against out
in the Philippines. did i? They don't have
much hossracin' out there and not much
sport, except chicken fights, but they're
darn quick to get next to anything American
When we first got out there our regiment
was showed down to Mindanao and as those
natives wuznt spoilin' fer fight they cut
up the regiment into companies and scat
tered US all over the island doing patrol
duty.
My company was chased down to Davao,
where the river empties into the bay Of tina,
narne. 1t was awful lonely and tireeome
md We were soon lookin for soms new
si1r., We found it by drivin' herd OF
Nater-bulaloos or carab, o into the river
ana maxim them tow 10 drouno IN the
water. I hen We bogus TO Tx up races 70
ae which one Of u could make iis Duralo
git across the river lue quickest.
1t WASH cNCitin, except when we had
bet W. A fellow coIJu 10 back To camp
| and Answer roll call ana git back In time Il.
SEE the finish, Dut If icIiow had big bet
| up II was tryiu on the nerves.
Va "a n l1.fh
! you could s.e your buhalo leadin' by ten
lengths and winnin' easy he d suddenly
| .ay down IN the mud ten yards from shor,
.or coed roll by and by we got that hero
unit. q 10 ten good swimmers and the rest
| was rule OF.
Then the sport began to get real ex-
citin' We started to play form and fav-
lrites. ] got stuck on one big bull buffalo
and played him on system. ! beat H.
TOO, FOR a time, but one day when bet
$40 on him, he stopped in the middle Of the
river 10 get u chew Of some fioatin weeds
and so finished in the also swans.
About the time the pay boat was due
and we was all awatin' around wonderin
whether we'd git letters from home or not,
the darndest looking little skinny NATIVE
comes up one day TO look at our buffalo
race He gets mighty interested, ano
seein' that ] amt In the game, cause !
was broke, he sidles up 10 Inc and gets me
to talk
I'D got so by that time that / could
iabber a little in the native tongue, and !
explains 10 him as well as l could what
was goin on. He thinks it over a httlt
while and then goes back to watch the game,
payn' particular attention TO the stake
holder pawn of the bets.
Several days after when my system
was workin' great and | was corncrlng al
he money in the camp, this lit" monkey
faced man comes up 10 me ard wanteh 70
vet on tie race We was playin' p oil
then, e2ch man D;ciin' buffalo anu I'm.
winner akin tie pot.
-Acco din 10 the rules of tie game we
incd th, whole bunch Of starters up on
'hn bank, each fellow got behind his Owl
buffalo ard then we all pushed them into
tho river wit bout no recall flag. We all
laughed when this little monkey face said
he wanted 10 go into tl,e pool, hui he iotk'
IN - 60 ard We tolls hir 10 'H'ie li~ D'"i'
We'll. men. thai little cuss says lie amt
particular what beast he takes 50 we gives
him buffalo what was as lazy as moaS7es
He didn't make a kick, but lined UP with
the rest md showed the beast over into the
water with the others.
Them buffaloes loafed and wallowed
around and when they got out into deep
water my buffalo was IL front. WITH the
little cuss's law brute thirty yards behind
Then all of a sudden his lazy old COW starts
TO swim like a fish and she wins the race 10y
five minutes The monkey face gathered
up all the coin and took IL on the run up the
hillside.
Il was awake all night a fgurin' out how
the thing was done and finally ] makes up
my mind that the cus,'s COW. BEN Kept on
poor pasture 40 long, got hungry for the
good pasture on the other side and simply
swan for H. so decided to take hungry
COW myself the next race and told nobody
The followin' day the little monkey lace
comes down GRIMM and | gives him my
~ al L
hungry one for mine, but the result Of the
race was Just the same. The cuss's buhaio
loafs along till he gets in deep water, then
ne hikes Il for the other side and wins by
forty wards The monkey face takes the
money again with big grin and skips.
There was a lot of sore soldiers around
there that night, but they couldn't do
thing After two weeks OF this sort OF
hing We bogins to get desperate and goes
to bettin' big. hopin' TO get the coin back.
We give the little cuss every no account
buffalo in the herd, but each broke out OF
the maiden class and he gets all the dough.
Il begins TO think there's somethin
crooked goin' on so ] makes up my mind
20 watch the little monkey-face closely
The next afternoon | follows him down 10
the bank.
him pull out little bottle ana pour some
stuff all over the cows tail. ] caught
Whit Of II and d8rncd IL ! didn't have to
lay down and roar, even though was broke
an mad
What was il? Why that darn river is
full of fish somethin' like pick"rel and them
natives uses a sort Of p .ngcnt oil on the
bait when they're fishn'. This dried up
little monkey-face had simply been soakin'
the tail 81 his buffalo with that fish bait,
and then when them fish got to nibbin'
at The tail. the buffalo lii out fast end won
the race.
We PASSED rule against dopin' bufaloes
after that and ruled the little cuss Of but
be wa $500 20 the good an didn't caro-.
tell YOU mon. those Filipinos is pretty wire
gazabros'