The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1904-04-08
IN THE BAY OF NAPLES.
What Is Wrong with the Picture
HIS NAME WAS A HOODOO.
Race Horse Named for Congressman
Couldn't Win Under Such q
Handicap.

"a horse trainer of my acquaintance
once thought to bestow a compliment
upon me by naming a Thoroughbred
running horse after me-" said repre-
sentative in congress from a middle
western state, relates the Washington
Post, land that compliment almost
cost me my seat in the house when IL
was announced. I'm not a betting man
at all, and have not been at race track
more than half dozen times in my life,
but when that two-year-old colt was
named after me my political enemies had
glorious chance to spread the reportI
that was horse hacker from thel
word go. and that hurt me lot Ny
constituency Is mighty religious one.,
and I had all could do to square the
thing with them. They took 1t for
granted that no horseman would be
naming horse after me If really had
no connection with the horse-racingi
game, and I couldn't walk a block onl
the streets of my home town that II
wasn't held up and asked about it, and
forced to endanger blood vessel or sol
in explaining how the horse had come
to be named after me.
1.-THE two-year-old was no account In
the world. either. After he had started
at a Chicago track no less than seven
times. and finished with the also-rans
every time, I begged his owner to
change the colts name, but he was .
stubborn sort of a chap, and couldn't
see 1t. One day, while in Chicago. J.
boarded street car with a young friend
to go out to the race track to see that
sorry namesake of mine run. Across the
aisle from US in the car were couple
of deaf and dumb dead game sports.
also on their way to the race track,
judging from the field glasses slung over
their shoulders. They were going
through the dummy alphabet at great
rate, discussing, as my friend told me,
the chances Of the horses entered. At
length my young companion broke into
an outburst of wild mirth, and couldn't
imagine what allied him. hadn't seen
anything funny.
What's coming of, anyhow ]
asked him. Let me in on the joke :
"'Oh, it's just a remark that one OF
those dummies over the way just made
to his pal with his fingers, that's ALL
said my young friend.
"'What did he say? insisted.
"'I hate to tell YOU replied the young
fellow.
"'Out with it. said I, mystifed What
did he say?'
"'Well.' said the young chap with
me, 'he said that you were mutt and .
landcrab. and that you couldn't beat .
fat man at a clam bake, and that you
ought to have been sent to the glue
works when yearling.'
''The dummy had been referring to
the horse named after me, of course. but
it was more than could stand, at that
When I reached the track looked uD
the owner of my no-good,equine name
sake. and by mingled threats and Inn
plorations and the promise to pay the
jockey club fee necessary, I finally got
him to consent to changing the horses
name.
THAT miserable two-year-old ran In
his new name at the Chicago track .
| week later and beat In gallop one OF the
| best fields of two-year-olds that ever
went to the post in the town Of wind.
| Later he developed into craeker5ack
stake horse. So that I guess my name
had been as much of an incubus for him
to carry as his carrying of my name
| had been a dangerous hoodoo to me-"