The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
WILL WALK in
UPON THE BIT
BAT MAsTERsoN SAYS ROOsE.
WELT IS "A LEAD PIPE CINCH.
..rhe Strenuous Life Not Only a
Guide for Daily Life, but a Prize
Dope Sheet-"Be Not Too Bold''
Gives Bat a Fine Hunch.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
New York, Feb. 27.-Bat Masterson,
president of the Bead Drawers assoc
citation and Arizona Bad Man Emeri-
tus sat at his desk in the cabinet room !
of the Delavan yesterday reading a |
copy Of 1.-The Strenuous Life" by his
friend, President Theodore Roosevelt.
1t was a busy day with President Bat.
Hot engagements were going on SIM
| ultaneously at New Orleans and San
Francisco. In q low voice he was
giving quick, terse orders to his tele-
| graph operators to be flashed over the
special wires to his generals, who,
in the very thick Of the rings, were
obeying his orders and conducting the
fight against the cold and relentless
| bookie tribes at the very gateway of
the Pacific and on the shores OF the
gulf.
But between races President Bat
found time to read his book and to tell
Of his call last Tuesday on the au
thor in the White House.
"Of course called at the White
House. said Bat. why shouldn't I?
yer? Didn't all of my friends join his
regiment in Cuba? He's one of our
own kind. was in the White House
twenty minutes. We shook hands and
talked about
"Seven to two on. Miss Melton for
the first race Interrupted the oper-
atOr.
who's up?' asked Bat, carefully
, sticking his finger between the pages
of 1.-The Strenuous Life to keep his
place until q less strenuous moment
should arrive.
"Michaels is good said Bat. Give
= them 500 straight on Miss Melton.
Put down a thousand on Sweet Nell
to win for the second race.
"Now, I was saying, when we got
I the track odds on Miss Melton, Roose-
Z welt will come in on the bit. He VIII
! win in a walk. You can say that for
I Bat and the great west. A man that
: can shoot like him and write a book
like this has got 'em all left at the
& post.
. "Now, listen to this, you guys who
think that the only book is a hand
book. Here's a little ten page flyer
p on expansion and peace. The presi.
dent throws in a little poetry just tc
open the pot with.
i 90 BE bold, be bold and everywhere
be bold;'
That's hedging your bet Teddy
Now what the devil docs does ho1 n
Well, I've got a bunch out of that line
= all right. Have you got the $1,000
- to win on Sweet Nell yet?
Il mo? well, don't put it down. BE
= not too bold Make it 100 on Sweet
I zyra to Win. that's right.
Il Have they started in the first yet
Well, drop that dope sheet and listen
4 "'Be not too bold. Yet better the
y excess than the defect; better the
more than less.
II don't know just what he is driv
- ing at there, but it's a circle that more
has got less beaten to a finish.
'"What YER getting there now! F1rS
race? Reel it off, ,..5-...r..-.
The operator reeled it.. Miss Mel
ton wins, Ralph. Going. second; Tross
acks, third, TjmfA;isl;l4 . l15, :,
bully from the president out in tn
Denver country. Miss Melton win
and that's 500 more, which isaa ID
3 sight better than less. Just as 1th
president says right here at the drol
of the flag on this piece: 1*tssI5
= HE is the hottest president we eve
had and I told him so the other da!
hin the White House, and he said: Bat
thank YOU They might just al
W we'll begin paying off on him now, for
,b as said before, he'll walk in on thu
Or bit next November.
st "All this political talk against hin
at Is hogwash. Root says he's safe. Bu
le Masterson will go Root one better AM
I'd say he's a sure thing and I've been i
IN Washington since Root left there. How
I'd the HI is Mr.. Wood going to hur
IS, him at the go-off? Wood is a 3-year
Id old In the general class. Why shouldn'
+ he take the realization stakes? I an
he telling you
he Second race, New Orleans" inter
CO rupted the operator. ''Zyra wins, Yes
re try, second; Sweet Nell, third. Time
ed 1:2O.'
ut Bats cronies in the Delavan cabine
DIS room sent five call boys right out t
+ hunt up the nearest book store an
. bring back five copies Of ''The Strer
uous Life.''
Didn't + tell you he was the hotties
: president we've ever had?" exclaime
" Bat after he had made the operate
read the results Of the second rae
over three times.
GOLFERS TO CROSS OCEAN 4.