The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-25
A MAN WITH A
HONOLULU HUNCH
Double Jointed Luck OF Washington Clerk.

couldn't be ready or anywhere near
ready for a race-that was the only way
I the crestfallen committee clerk could
fix the thing up in his mind.
! He got hole OF bunch of old dope
and found that Honolulu had finished
away back in his four previous starts,
! last year. This old dope, too, con-
tributed to taking some of the starch
out of his hunch
Then ne asked one OF the exit enely
wise ticket writers at St. Asaph what
allied Honolulu that he should be at
such ridiculousiy long price.
Say" said the ticket writer. die
! ever take peek at that old crabs legs?
Why, he's the worst Grip in training,
Both of his front legs are as big as
kag of oysters at the knees. He's h'ble
to fall down on them cagey old legs and
+ lose an eye any minute in a race. |
wouldn't play that one with Panama
paper money, good when the canals
dug"
Thus, the bunch was in a fair way to
be punctured, when it was suddenly in
flated again by couple of new feeders.
| Meditating upon the undermining
ability of Honolulu's great sire, Star
Ruby, the committee clerk recalled to
mind, with awakening enthusiasm, that
the wife of his brother in Honolulu
was named Ruby This recollection
famed the bunch into pretty moderate
| flame again.
The thing, however, that blew it into
a roaring blaze was this: The commit
tee clerk found himself brushing elbows
| with wealthy Filipino student here
who has so successfully studied the
| form of the horses during the past
twelvemonth that he has gained local
| renown as a successful poolroom plum
ger.
The man with the bunch had seen
this Filipino before, and the man had
| always reminded him of the leading
| tailor of Honolulu, Cl1inaman named
| Ahana, who is particularly cherished by
| American naval officers for the excel
! lent fits he makes of white uniforms.
| Ahana had made the committee clerks
| multi garments during his stay in Ho-
nolulu; and here, ducIing around the
poolroom, was the little Filipino who
had always made him think of Ahana
and Honolulu
ME for the Honolulu thing, anyhow"
he found himself gibbering as he made
| his way up to the counter. I'm not
| framing up any lifelong regrets for my
SELF and that's where I'd stand if Ho-
| nolulu went through and me not down.
| And if Honolulu should cop, and the
| bunch at the Capitol heard that the
/ price had stampeded me off, they'd
make my life miserable until the adj
! journment of Congress
| Hundred each way across the tape,
Honolulu" he said to the grinning tick
ct writer, passing over his three one
hundred dollar notes.
The manager of the room happened
| L.. IL.
! the tickets, 900 to $Ioo, $500 to SIoo
smiled sardonically.
Mice grease, shipmate," said the
manager to the committee clerk. Like
| taking a rubber ring from sick baby.
Why don't you drop over on us oh, so
VARY often? Honolulu, hey? HIM You
| like Camembert, then? And today's
| Thursday, too Die ever hear of Homo
| lulu busting into the first three on a
Thursday? Queer nobody ever told you
that Honolulu's Sunday horse"
The committee clerk, somewhat crest
fallen under the guying of so erudite a
| horseman as the manager of the pool
| room, was trying to frame up some sort
of an answer, when the operator an
| nounced that they were off at the
! Springs.
| the wire by the fayorite, Stand Pat, and
the committee clerk was $500 to the good
| on his bunch.
| The man with the. vindicated lunch
put on his overcoat and was the first
at the cashing window. He wanted to
| take the first train leaving St. Asaph
] for Washington, and only had margin
of seven minutes.
| There was bit of delay in confirm
! ing the race, and when the committee
, clerk got his money he started to run
| for it. He was only halfway to the
| station when the electric train pulled
! in and, after only an instant'S stop,
pulled out again.
! The committee clerk returned to the
poolroom to get out of the cold until
| the next train for Washington was due,
half an hour later. Again he took
! seat at the extreme rear, SO that the
: sight of the blackboard would not tempt
| him.
He had hardly sat down before the
! operator called out through the mega
phone the first line of betting against
! the horses in the FIRST race at the Oak
/ land track.
The Hay-wayne, 10 to l." called out
| the operator, after announcing the prices
/ against the preferred horses
The committee clerk sat stunned in
his chair. He was familiar with that
pronunciation of Hawaiian But until
! that instant he had never known that
| there was such race horse in the world
| as The Hawaiian.
Dazed at the possibilities OF this No
2 bunch, he almost tottered over to the
blackboard. there it was all right The
Hawaiian. 10, and 2, across the board.
Bottom horse on the list. Apprentice
| boy up.
He feverishly grabbed the dope charts
out of the hand of man he knew, to
| look up The Hawaiian. He found that
| The Hawaiian had been showing him
self to be one of the most consistent
horses on the San Francisco tracks
that is to say The Hawaiian had finish