Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-15
DREAM LUNCHES THAT
FAILED OF REALIZATION

the. even-money favorite He figured to
walk In. I had dreamed of bright blue
morse, and bright blue was True Blue ]
mad seen Blueway warm up. and he looked
seeoy ana oyerraced to me. In his last
previous race he had trailed his field The
track was fast, and, while Blueaway was a
mudoer distinctively, True Blue was best
on fast track
$50 I tossed up a dime If II cana dou,,,
heads 1t was to be True Blue tails, Blue
away Heads 1t was
I roughed 1t so much in jumping for the
nearest book laying even money against
True Blue that a couple of 'Pinks were
Tor pinching me and slamming me in the
track cooler, but begged off and got the
soS down on my pick of the double dream
| bunch.
True Blue was left at the post Blue
away at 10 to 1, won by five lengths with
the boy on him yawning.
of course, didn't blame 1t on the dream
but on my way of interpreting dreams.
resolved that if in future any of my dreams
| pointed to two of EN- my system would be
| to play the one at the longest price.
''The next dream thing that drifted my
way was one over the sticks. I dreamed
that a certain steeplechase horse that was
| known to have all kinds of speed over the
jumps, but that had always fallen down be-
fore getting to the tape, had stood up and
won in stroll. I didn't get any immed-
ate action on that trance. But week
later, while the Sheepshead Bay meeting
was going, the jumper that I'd dreamed
about was entered for short course
steeplechase.
when got to the track on that mellow,
balsamic afternoon I was SAB strong, and,
not to be tempted. / slowed myself away
up on a top tier seat of the stand until the
jumping race shoAld happen, regarding not
the three previous races. Then I got the
$40 down the timber topper I'd had the
dream hunCh Thew mi n I
against him and smiled slow, sardonic
smiles when they accepted my kale.
"uh-huh. The dream jumper went over
entire distance, and was just two-steppng,
ten lengths In front. at the finish.
When chased into the ring for the pur-
pose of having various bookmaking persons
contribute large moneys to my shrunken
roll, the ring announcer. looking all flushed
and het up with happiness, sped into the
circle and yelled out that my horse had
been disqualified for going inside two of the
steepleohase course flags. and therefore not
covering the full course.-a little matter
| which had quite escaped my observation.
yep, the dream had been all right, only
1t hadn't said anything about flags.
There was a great horse involved In the
last dream | went to before developing
chilblains as to the frances.
II dreamed that l saw a bunch of sol
ders drilling big vacant lot. When
awoke with a start and got up to nail a
dyspepsia tablet, the word of the leading
ming in my ears like the buzz of blizzard
wind through a clog of trolley wires. The
dream couldn't mean anything else than
that Advance Guard going to just
bIe eZe in his long distance race on the next
day I took Advance Guard for the wad at
the favorite's price, and, for the first and
only time in his life. Advance Guard backed
up in the stretch and allowed a firkin of
cottage curd named Warrented to slide
along in front of him to the wire.
"Ail of a sudden, then and there. froze
on the dream dope. The great light broke
Oh me, and perceived that the dream gag
WAS getting me into the habit of accepting
the fringed tassels at the bottoms OF my
trousers with sodden equanimity
81 was in New Orleans few months later.
During the long winter mud meeting there
I dreamed that I saw pure white horse
winning a race all by himself at the New
Orleans track. l woke up chuckling, for
knew that pure white race horse, a plug
ovitch by the name OF Elmer s., was going
! to race at the track on the very next day.
| In addition to the dream, for which I'd have
fallen with thud only d few brief months
before. / saw about twenty-three red
headed women around town that morning
and on my way to the track
when the bunch with the white Elmer
s. in 1T paraded to the post / was all
a-gurgle with self-congratulation to think
| Oh now ndQ DfOke away from that dream
| junk. Only little while ago. 1 gloated to
myself, If anything bearing on or appar-
tanning to white plug like that Elmer s.
| had flashed through me while was in the
hay I'd have had a temperature of 100 until
got chance to joggle in all of my change
on 1t, and here am now, just a-laughing
and with ticket on the sure-enough WIN
ner in my pocket
Just then the field got away and Elmer
s., the white one. taking dislike to the
company he found himself In, when the far
turn was reached, just picked up his doll
rags and came home all Alone with all of
| the $50 to against him that you could
could have shot biscuit at out of 1o-inch
gun.
And this sums up in few reasons why,
when l hear the dream boys vaiving out
escaping steam about the droskeys of dough
they've hauled away through somnamhuls-
tic selections, ] fell like stalking 'em to a
smoke the fumes or which don't go to the
head"