The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-25
DESPERATE CHANCE OF SHOULDERS MCQUEEN.
He Takes Friend From Philadelphia the Racetrack and Enter
ains Him in Style on Very Small Cash Capital

.rhe next time friend o. mine from
nunberhurst- on-the-Sohuylkill or from
.,vwbere else falls in on me ON big stake
a.v or any other old kind OF day I'm 60
~. N be there with bank wad or I'm GO
mo 10 hike up to Yonkers and keep under
aver till he blows away again. said
Shoulders Mcqueen OF Matt Donohue's
N.tIet in Harlem, who does the hest he
un around the tracks, including picking
am for liberal strangers who haven't got
dore line on them.
.1his thing of starting out to entertain
. rir wad on q sawbuok note at race
Jack on one Of the swell-up days isn't the
brand Of close arithmetic Pm hunting for
.oain,r he went on. making a maelstrom
IN his goblet with the spoon. 1T made
mo feel ike cracked piccolo In minstrel
hand on Suburban day. and there isn't
,oine to be any twice to that kind Of a
shaky afternoon.
The Roy that zephyred into me on Suuur-
Ran morning was the right kind of oonl
that | met in Phille when ! went down
n tn, doycaurg to take PEEK at one Of
those ak round goes last year. lie was all
-;sht from canapi 10 crackers, and he gave
ne whi2 in fhillie thut kept me on the
C,rls, cd for "A month after | got lack to
New York.
lie lad me Gol ed for finger better on
the main lire up this way, and Of course 1t
wasn't up to ire 70 unwind with lot OF
talk Junk and toll him where stood. Before
left phillie made him promise that he'd
root mo ip tho next time he rolled over
10 nj hax
The ! est I've y cen getting since Aque-
a,ct he's cen tho toss over the infeld fence,
md on the cay Store the Suburban live
ones were scarccr than outside Linges at
louisiana vncning &C. When ! got home
from the trccx that Wednesday l wasn't
there with enough to lug brush OF.
-on Su ur an morning was walking
rss, the G.oas uoi,ae. kind O. hoping that
srr, hr1vv raunch from Havefsaok would
si,, re arl ak nc 10 rrComrnrnd him some
ptcc, fs, hose 70 play in the Suburb an,
ubcr who DO | slam into ! mt my there
sth-i, f'irrd from phi'ac!elphia.
.rn coke / lie Tie baled l,ale, and was
rrp.t" r,nd at that, that l had my front
left lccarse | wanted to hold good with
corh tat lad given me so much the eat
Of Il in h;s love lurg, Fed just waited
in a ocu1lc Of hours before, and he tod
ne that ho'i leen inQuiring at lot of
r!aces wharo TO dig me up. but tlGt TIE
hurcb dj,in't apyear % 10 hep to my loca-
ton srIn it TO him that l had taken
suite in q hotel away uptown to duck the
noise " Ito downtown ira ffic and nudGed
by wit it.
'(amo over FOR the g Jog ut tie Rav.
hey:' said 10 lin. and tNa'6 what he'd
made tie ride for. We'll. yo,'re going to
DO it With ne, mate and he loohcl piea sod,
the track alone, and that ne didn't know
many of the gang around New York nova
days, and all that,
DO, was buster than q cat climbing out
OF cistern while | was vslving out that
little Tersifage, hut ! never let him get
hep to It, Told him that | was just bound
for one OF the hotels to collect little marker
OF couple hundred from bookie. and that
I'd meet him at the Glass House. where he
was staying. in time to roll down to the
track That suited him. he said.
We'll, me for the tube and upto Harlem.
II was my idea to stick Matt Donohue up
against the palings uncoil him hot story
and hypnotize him into slipping me double
X, but when l got up there found tina t
Matt was out of town. The hest could do
then was to glide up to l2jth street and get
into Greco Roma with the hockshop man
on that thoroughfare who's got all Of my
junk sailed in his cribs.
4 laid all OF the tickets out in front OF
him and told him that was just about to
try the squeeze play on him to the tune Of
ten. The interest on the rocks was away
up around the eleven month mark, but
finally got him to loosen up for the ten
pape more on boulder that had only been
showed seven months before,
Ten strong. and due to spin around
Philadelphia all right " tn enough OF tho
yellows in his nankeens to start a fire in the
kitchen stove-that was me. Scheduled to
take him to the Suburban, at that, and
show him how us finger people do it UP