The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-28
|HEY'RR NOT 80 EASY.
THERNERs sHOW B0oKMAK- FRS 4 THING OR TWO.

Ny Boy Did the Trick---SO Did Mc- hso and Little Woods and Others ey are sadder and Wiser Men Now. hy time that a stoolman gets a 'xnian's or a Marylander's money race track" remarked, a few af- Ions ago, a disgruntled New York maker, whose satchel had just re- < Id a deep dent through the success lsouthern bush-trained race horse, got to go after it up a dark alley, a piece of gaspipe for a persua- i the other players along the line, heard the plaint, breathed a. fer and confirmatory Amen" | rural Virginians in their sto' and with the clayey red soil of Did Dominion crusting their boots to be regarded with good-natured ement by the layers booking at Hing. The bucholic Marylanders, with their made-up neckties, their -shaped soft hats and their air of Iletrable stolidity, were viewed by p-the-line price-makers until a few ago much in the light of variety Rubes, yokels who furnished easy hg.
 reputation of the southerners for ng "sleeperso to the post had iled to nothing, and the smart fel- were all northerners. The turf su- hey had passed above the Mason bixon line in so far, at least, as the Mness Of the turfmen themselves Concerned.
 five or six years ago the Benning received from Virginia and Ma a couple of jolts which gave pause when they had that irresis- inclination to hunch prices before cry eyes of the men in the sto first jar, from which it took many layers long time to recover (ned when little two-year-old Bon- |y, son of the old iron horse Bit trolled away from his field with undred and fifty to one chalked St him..
 ley Boy was then, as now, owned Bradley, the Virginian, and wher slding went to the post that time he land-poor descendants of the iers from the Potomac ito the and beyond knew how good the the iron horse was. Bradley haG a good deal of a joke on the tur1 that time. But just before load s string at his Virginia farm an6 7 ng them to Washington that the old man had let fall wor6 to crony.
 \ NAreckon, he said, you'd bettuf Nhe word around 'mong the boys Hive got a sho' likely little two ' ol' hoss in nah balm, named Bon y."
 word was enough. The boys got the way from the Potomac to the
 and beyond. They told theii les that they had immediate busi. in Washington, donned theil apparel and came to the capital or train.
 joyous layers never rubbed tht against the little Blitzen gelding he contrary, they clung to theil that time of hunching the pric. time a man with the unmistaka, rginia appearance swung up.
 race was foolish. Boney Boy home, pulled to the conforma pretzel. There are pricemak, till operating who shake theil dolefully yet over the memory O parse rebel yell that tore the Ben atmosphere when the despised lit ding came home in a traipse.
 McFonso thing happened the nex hn.
 onso was an old gelding that haC pulling a buggy and blackboard Maryland farm. He belonged entleman named Reyes.
 onso was a thoroughbred. bu ever veen much, and so for him cen the buggy and the blackboard occasional hunting and going il queer tournaments wherein young Rrn lads joust at iron rings, and y win at this same, crown thei hearts Queen of Love and Beauty n he was needed McFonso did al
 of other equine chores OH th' except blowing. That's one thins herner will not stand for-hitch
 thoroughbred horse to a blow let the ground go untitled first.
 one day at a hunt this McFons' B did some surprising things il hy of taking the jumps and goin.
 was close to the Benning meet and MT. Reyes had an idea. H' Id McFonso for hurdle race, ant he mentioned in a casual sort O to the Maryland cronies he me le reckoned McFonso wouldn't b,
 that race.
 too, was enough. When Mo
 went to the post Maryland, al