The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-11
GOOD BETS MADE BY MISTAKE.
ONE BOOKMAKER FINDS THAD
I'D PAYS no BE OBLIGIBG. 3


Most OF tho beta People wans 70 Change
Arc winning Bets-An Unexpected
winning OF sl0,OO0-Tho Woman
Who Didn't Play tho $50 to shss.
swhen the horses Toupee and Teepee
ran In the same race while ago. said q
bookmaker, Il had 10 turn my whole sheeS
on tho race over to the rings board OF
arbitration when tho numbers were hung
out showing that both of them had got
into the money. The similarity IN the
names Of the horses caused the confusion.
Even before the field went to the post
my sheet looked like Chinese politioai
manifesto, for about three-quarters OF the
bettors on the race got their beta down
on tho wrong one and came rornping back
to my stool and asked me to switch their
badge numbers and amounts from Teepee
to Toupee or from Toupee to Teepes.
when I'm on tho block I'm never too
busy figuring out my percentage 70 take
q bet of my sheet, or transfer one, when I'm
ciyilly requested to. II took me q long
while to annex that lesson unto myself.
It wasn't until had long line OF past
performances behind me to prove 1t that
got wise to the peculiar fact that most OF
the bets people want to have wiped on are
winning bets.
AN Incident that helped to teach me
that happened when ! was down IN dot
Springs one winter few years ago. One
Of the plungers down there at the time
was sick in bed and playing them 40 the
rooms through a commissioner.
sOne day he sent his commissioners over
to the big store poolroom to gen Wow
down on a horse scheduled to 60 In New
Orleans race. The commissioner became
twisted on his way to the poolroom and
got the $1,000 down on another horse In
the same race with o somewhat similar
name, an 8 to shot.
sWhen tho commissioner hustled back
to the siclroom Of his principal with me
ticket, the plmger threw whatever came
handy at the commissioners head, and
ordered him to romp back to the poohoom
nronrietor and request him to reocsy inc
mistake by taking the 5000 OF the 70
.hot and putting tho coin on the Other one
IN the race that the plunger had dopeo ous
to win.
sThs commissioners, IN Q panic, skateo
hack TO the poolroom and told hisi hfsas
tale Of grief to the poolroom proprietor.
Thc poolroom man gave tho commissioned
the gloat.
Not ON your gold watch srd ohsin'
be said hatly. Each and every bet maAs
beneath this bamboo tree stands - Es
n.da what dive think am. q moving
pictured To the arsF
sRnt, nleaded the hard luck commits
s;onsr ri Lose my Job With his nnhs II
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"'Never mind the ousfnshe Hn0v
music ON the G string. hnartisnY 70
plied the poolroom man. When aye
think I began to take money sway rom
myselfp That Q to s nursltnx that your
man wants to play is going to stft In AL
by his little solitude. Please gwsy an
let me Sleep
hack to his principals sickroom and tell
him that the poolroom man had refused
to az up the mistake, but hung aIGuno inc
poSrc;pah r.. snsxn Vas se called lied Oh Then he
ave q correct Imitation Of a Castilian oasta-
ST. csn-can and raced back TO the SICK
room with $4,000 winning In his f'ym-
outh Rocks. ,,h,,h ~ had
,,,+ The 70 600 by mistake came home IN
bored and weary Jog, and the Hot springs
niavers who were next to the inside OF the
Incident bounced the poolroom man on
the slack wire Of their kidding LOT the re-
mand bat Of the ies e little incident. o, that
kind that came under my, ooservauon
awav for future reference, and was money
in when I harked back to them IN ae 1
practice as layer myself: Mheh th .nas a'I
sstad nyseif The cunnin' little matter OF
ss o00 bv refraining from swelling up when
asked to rub bet off my sheet
Il had just finished putting up f the hgures
that Tace when sno an tSe crowd around
banged steo h st way .s sso iii Within couple Of
inches OF my nose, and yeneo'
8 .Pass Book, straight!
ct had 1SO to ohalked up against Pass
Book, so gave the little Lena, man s ss 20
as Just about right LOT clniier inonoS oI'N
va "A few minutes later i heard a great
wranpling between man and WonAI
someS here behind my stool, ano ~ he TSa
little man who had bet the, $40 with me
on the Pass Book joke was being backed
into n stanohion on the edge OF the lawn
by a big, raw-boned woman evidently
his wife. ,,,,,.s taller than
ha was and she looked as II she could de,
nolish him with both hands tied behind
her back She YVES shaking long io.e-
HE threats, to get the twenty-dollar btll
OH Pass Book, while he was fee6iy h tryns
to convince her that Pass Book had
chance. ~, 49,, v,,,h .
thing YOU fat headr she was saying to him.
ssTTh ss very = idee Of your trying to squander
our installment money on such a sausage
AZ pass Book-the very ideel You go to
the man this instant and tell him that l
YOU to play, dye hear mef' I'll.
sThs little man slunL over to my stool.
SAY, old man he began but 1 out
IT'S all right, mate said to him hin, ri 4
An YOU out. Give me your number and
ri svab the bet. What's the ons she
sHe named the horse-I forget which
one Of the crab: 1t xssanS nd. ,t nnd ,s the
went away With his shoulders hunchsd
forward looking blue.
About four minutes later Pass Book
had trotted homo In front Of hts hsld. and
was just IS 900 on the nice side becauee
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