The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-19

are you letting us people in on the thing for,
hey? Owners of ringers are not generally
40 dead stuck on the bookies as all that
comes to. Where do We butt in7'
WE'LL said Jim. it's this-a-way: I
don't know but what there might be two
or three fellers on the stools in there that We
booked on the regular tracks, that might
recognize this boss Of mine. So. II sent
him along. and put him through. an they
recognized my old Ned s. hoss. az I'm calm
him now. Of course they'd put I'D bleat
about him bein' a ringer, an. Of course, I
wouldn't cop. See? So I've just nachully
&e 90 e let y that PsE n away With you ~
You want the books TO hold the
Just about. said jim. Nobody but me
and you people II know anything about IL.
the openin'. and hold it there long ,'nough
f'r tn price & be sent out Z tn poolrooms:
I'll have my people in the rooms. an th'
books can do tn same won't bet a nickel
on tn grounds here. an tn books don't
have TO, either-they can wallop tn rooms,
just like ne
-'well. that's a hot one said the bookies,
agent, enthusiast icsly. IN pass it around
to the bunch Tonight, but I can tell you
now that they're on. But In it a cinch
that your skate has got it on EN- all around
Hanover to bread wagon bosses. COM
pared { this KID was Jim's sententious
Jim met the agent and a number Of
the most prominent Of the outlaw book
makers that same night in quiet little
room over a Baltimore saloon, and they all
passed him the happy hand.
IT'S fixed. said the agent. When are
you going TO pull IL on.
well said Jim, I'm gettin' bolo edge
on him now. an he'll be bout ripe inside
O. Ave ~ Or SIX DAYS no, fSu know ~hen o y0%
tb' boys on tn line will recognize him.
sure pop. ven he shows up r. his breather
s'Well,' said the agent, they're going to
make II juicy by laying 30 to 1 at the open.
notice 80 as TO send our men out TO the
rooms around the country with the dough.
Be dead certain not to let anybody, even
pikers. get next. so that none OF the fell
lows in the ring will get hurt with that
I'm see { that replied Jim, and thus
that end Of It was all soldered.
.On the following morning. Jim had a
secret conference with one OF the racing
officials. He told the official all about the
game as far As 1t had gone:
But they're smoking X, said ~ Jim; n con-
way SOS t hull 'em. TIL sure enough
business is coming OF day after t'morrow.
Scatter y'r boys aroun' tn rooms from
New York Z Pittsburg. an you kin 60 t.
France { spend mex winter II you want TO.
THE racing official pressed Jim hand
real cordially. and Jim had II played both
ends from the middle. But he was going
to give the racing people, the officials.
that is to say, the best OF IL. and double
cross the bookies, not because he was in
the habit Of showing favoritism in such
matters. but because Of the exigencies Of
the case.
sOn the following afternoon the name
Of Jim's other horse, Green Star, appeared
among the entries in the first race to be
run the following day.
with a copy Of the entries in his hand,
the bookies' agent. looking easy. hunted
Anything doing on this one. Jim,' he
inquired. ,,u,.,
Hes on'y tn work-hoss rr my good
one,' said Jim. He goes { tn glue works
as soon as put my old Ned s. hoes through.
s'Oh, that's 1t. eh?' said the ring agent.
Well, we'll let him run for US, hey. and
catch little sucker money!
Sure said Jim. I'm on'y putin him
In because tn secretary come { me an
told me he was shy o. hosses Z run t'mor-
row, an he wanted & pad out tn list with
any old four-hoofed thing. He'll finish
bout nex' Thursday week, but I didn't