Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-15
WAS A REAL GOOD TIP

When a horse-raciny tip begins TO fermeht
In Washington a lot OF the ordinary. routine
affairs of life and of business have to give
way. The fermentation needs plenty OF
time and a wide area in which to work, out
when 1t is fully MISREPRESENTATION the loaf is
all raised" and ready to bake-the sus-
pense in the sporty bosoms of consider
able element OF the Washington population
is something intense.
A dead sure thing perforated along 10
Washington something more than a fort
night ago. Nobody knew how 1t got in or
exactly where 1t came FROM But 1t took
hold Immediately, and the town rocked and
swayed with 1t for more than ten days.
The pipe" was thing called PaniQue,
maiden three-year-old.
PaniQue, 1t appeared, belonged to vet
eran of the turf game who Is very well
known around Washington from having
raced his horses here for many years past.
The hog-slaughtering of the century was
going to be pulled off on Panique That
was the word that went around. Panique
had never won a race, but was going 10
walk home in a race at Morris Park, with
all kinds of price.
The name of PaniQue was whispered
around offices and stores and shops py
clerks ambitious to become wealthy while
they waited. The certainty of the killing
developed Dy accret1On as the Pan1Que sure
thing spread around town.
'The trick can't lose" became the word.
"Old man B. says that it's in and cooled
out, and you know what a cautious old
chap b. Is. Get busy. Go to 1t with the
ROLL
The young men behind the cigar counters
in the hotels mad it. and disseminated ii
among the strangers within the Washington
gates.
"When's 1t going to come OFF," was the
nv Of h,,t vi c
no satisfaction on that subject Nobody
knew when it was going to happen. 1t was
simply known and known with a positive
ness almost pathetic in it's absoluteness OF
iteration that the first time Panique was
entered at Morris Park Panique was going
to stretch home all alone, and with a write
your-own-ticket price.
Men who rarely or never frivol with the
horses began to fall into reveries over the
constant whispered accounts they heard OF
the Panique cinch. Every fellow who got
the good thing and passed 1t whisperingly
around solemnly warned those to whom ne
mentioned 1t not to say anything about II
to anybody else.
Because If all hands get It," they ex-
planned. 1.-THE price will be queered, see?'
The Panique situation was intensified
when the rumor got around that certain
Washington deadgame, just back from
New York, had seen Panique put through
workout by the light of the moon In the
middle of the night, and that the horse had
Every downtown man with an ear at
tached to his head had heard of the Panique
cinch before last Tuesday. All of them
consequently, were watching the entries fol
the name of Panique.
Panique's name appeared among the en-
tries in the morning papers of last Tuesday
Panique was scheduled to go in the first
race at Morris Park. .o
1t may be questioned whether the hand.
books of Washington ever before drove
such flourishing business, even on big stake
race days, as they did on Tuesday last
The money on the pipe" flowed to then
office hours. 1t reached them in all sorts
of amounts. from gummy dollar bills tt
tidy little packages of $50 and 500.
The makers of the hand-books late the
money up, as the saying runs. They haG
heard about these sure things several times
before In fact, they had been known tC
start these sure-thing stories a-going them.
selves.
Young chaps bending over their desks al
day Tuesday looked sort Of twitchy and
nervous Most of them seemed indisposed
TO talk Their obvious nervousness in
creased as the afternoon wore on
mat peneVoient institution over the river
at ST Asaph was packed and jammed an6
cluttered with possessors of the Panioue
cinch on Tuesday afternoon. Many of the
visitors had never been in a pool room in
their lives before.
When the first line of betting came
| In on the first Morris Park race. an6
Panique was chalked up at 10oto l. the rusf
to the counters of the ticket writer's set in
Because the price was only 10 to 1 they al
figured that Panique looked all the better
the bookies at the track had smeIt the raj
and become afraid of the pipe" they
argued.
At the benevolent st. Asaph plant the,
all but broke each others arms in crowd.
ing UP to the ticket writer's with theil
money.
The '"They re-off-at- Morrls-P mo.
ment arrived.
Now! Now!" howled and walled the
Panique people. beginning to snap thei,
ringers as the operator started to call of
the progress of the race
Panique never got so much as a whistle
from the operator. Panique never ever
threatened to get CALI at any stage OF
the race.
Thus the cake was dough, and a lot OF
dreaming young fellows who had contem.
plated quitting their jobs on their winnings
and starting to make book on their owr
hook began to treat their bosses bit more
respectfully and to exude that dismal ole
dirge, You can't beat EN-"
But the very next sure thing that comes
to town, they will fall to dreaming again
and the town will be in a state of sup
pressed riot once more until the pipe" also
alSo-runS
Perhaps the most patient believers tr
sure things in all the world live and have
their being in little old Washington.