Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-12-15
ToUTED OUT OF FORTUNE IN
SIGHT.
m'ssourian About to Play Long Shot
Put Upon a LOSING Candidate.

missourian About to Play Long Shot
Put Upon Losing Candidate.
New York News.-'T was making
DOCK on the Chicago tracks eight
years ago" said a bookmaker at a
Broadway Turkish Hotel on Saturday.
one big stake day, for the third race
en- the card, had horse chalked up
at ZOO to l. The horses name was
American Eagle. He'd never raced
ON the Chicago tracks, but the books
runners reported that he looked and
ran like giraffe, hence the big fig
ure against him.
"A quiet-spoken, Misunderstanding
sort of chap made his way up to nv
stool a little while before thew were
due TO go to the post in that race and
said to me:
Do you want to make $50 on that
Eagle horse?'
That didn't give me much of a
chance to round UP my book, with one
$4,000 to $50 bet on the outsider. burt
the race was so filed with good ones
that | decided to take a chance. I
nodded and he was just slipping me
| the $50 when man he apparently
knew, who had been standing by. gave
him poke on the arm.
This man happened TO be the track
| photographer, and there are some race
goers who imagine that track photo
graphers know the difference between
race horse and smokehouse.
What dye want to toss your mon.
ey away for like sudsed sailor?' he in.
CURED of the humble looking man.
'That mutt hasn't any more chance
than tree toad in a typhoon.'
i me quiet-spoken wavered.
found out afterward that he had come
all the way from little farm down in
Missouri to play American Eagle the
flrst time the horse started.
He had seen the colt work on q
half-mile track and got the notion IN
TO MS head that he would be bale to
trim anything in his line. 1t was
with the greatest difficulty that h,
mad got together the $50 that he ha;
offered to bet with me and sailed IL
Chicago with the idea of making {
mild killing.
But the encouragement of the tract
photographer got him heeling. Fl,
nermitted the camera mana town.,
from missouri whom he hadn't see,
for years-to lead him off to a corne,
and the photographer had pushed /
into him that there was only on,
morse in the race and that the 3-to.:
favorite. The man with the $50 an
the American Eagle bunch went to tn.
favorite in my book taking $50 to $50
American Eagle gumshoed home
like a chicken thief trying to beat ou
a bulldog. The humble.lookine man
who was $4,000 to the bad for MS
switch stood alongside my stool talk
ing with the photographer when tbs
horses came into the stretch.
When the crowd let orrt the BIAS
that the Eagle horse was some he he
gan to go around the camera packer
like cooper around a barrel. Hs
not only trimmed the PHOTOGRAPHED
four different ways for Sunday but he
knocked the everlasting daylights out
OF two Pickerton men who tried tc
prll him off. and his wrath was sc
mighty that it finally took four mount
ed cops to pile him into the hasty
wagon and lug him to the calaboose.
He hadn't had the moral backbone
to pass along suggestion as to what
ned better do with piece of money
mat he'd resolved to play his own
and no other, but he had the nerve t.
try to put all the constituted authority
VI Chicago on the bum in his chagrin
over his pollywogeedness when he
came to full realization of it."