Evening star., 1905-11-05
DIED IN THE STRETCH
Cool Things That Never Came On.

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| could see that there was going 10 b no
use trying to tag ahead of that one even
with all of his penalties.
And so the ten of us with jumpers tha:
were beaten before they went to the posi-
| got together on the night before the rac1
and held little Conversations. None or
us wanted to run for second or third money
Iherc wasn't enough In that for any OF us.
And there wasn't going to be anything
| In betting on the eleventh horse that had
| us all beat, either. for he stood a swell
chance to be an money shot and even
money isn't n price to take against any kind
| OF jumping horse. even IL he can hop
| over the moon and beat Bucephalus to the
Rocky mountains.
Consequently. We made a little arrange
ment. We'd take that even money for sure
| stuff. but only that way.
San Francisco and Sausolito and San
| Rafel and a lot of other places around the
| bay were cluttered with poorooms then.
| Our men were in nearly all II them to take
the house betting on that good jumping
| favorite when the poolrooms opened up on
the forenoon OF the race.
Our men got down thousands at to :.
| They took thousands more when the pool
| room people rubbed the price TO to O.
| And SO II all set
| Each of the ten of us stood to win more
| oats money than our strings could sniff
for years, and | saw myself sitting on the
veranda of a grape ranch residence. smok-
ing cob pipe and watching Cinnamon train
vines for me.
Three hours before that steep'echase
race was TO happen we began to scratch
our horses out. Half an hour before the
| race there was only one left In 1.-THE good
one, upon which we were down.
There was a howl OF course, but the
| howlers had no turf law rule behind
| them. We were all afraid of the good one.
and we didn't care to risk our horses un-
necessarily and fruitlessly. that's all. We
were eyed by the stewards, of course, but
| that didn't hurt any.
I'VE were already opening magnums on
! the strength of that walkover. The owner
of the good one was glaring at us, and We
| felt very sad for him, we did, but IL
| couldn't be helped
There was only one way for him TO
sidetrack us, and that was 10 refuse 10
start his horse We knew that he couldn't
afford to do that. because the stake and
subscription footed up something handy.
1T was two-mtle course. and the good
enc with the walkover stunt 60 do started
out to jog the course.
| Nope he didn't fall down. He didn I
| know how to fall down that sky -scrapng
! SON -a-gun. He cleared every bush by
| three feet
But the bone headed coon riding him
three of the flags.
I'VE yelled and bawed at him to turn
around and go the right course. and the
owner all but took shot at him. But the
| dinge didn't hear us. He could have recu-
| fled the mistake and finished within the
| time limit by taking the right course had
| he neafQ US, nut ne Cldn |. lie went flShA
on and Topped the good one down the
| stretch and past the wire, while the owners
/ of the Bay District track We're shaking
hands with each other over the fact that
| the stake money reverted to the club
| And that's how that curdle happened.
The slant-eye who owns that Napa
| county vineyard is now having his shark
| fins and his birds nest soup stock and his
wives shipped to him direct from China.
'Oh, the poppy is a pleasant thing, but
| there's sure morning after.
There were only four horses in the race
| that going to enable to become a
| Cincinnati property owner, and one of them
was i'm my shed.
1T was a I.atonia stake. ard three days
before il to come off ] was fairly Ger
| tain that it going to be a walkovor.
| MY end of 1t was all right. My horse
| bowed a tendon while working one morn
| ing. and, before said anything about ii l
| went out and got you might say. the
kitchen stove on the best remaining horse
| in the race; tapped myself, or pretty near
| it, on that one. / wasn't figuring on Il
walkover at all in that. / was building on
| the horse played to win. My horse being
| out, he was a mile the best
1.-TWO days before the race another of the
| horses struck himself in his workout. and
| was useless for the remainder of the sea
| son. On the day before the one Of
| the other two-not the one | had bet on
with the fair and square idea that the
! stake was going to be his'n-let down In
| front.
80 there | was, down. and down good.
| on another waIkoy2r.
when | thought ii over it didn't seem to
| be within the deck that | should get
| other waliop in sure-enough one-ho So
| race.
&" Seems though. is a word that doesn't
| belong to the race track lexicon. The time
! for the walkover arrived The owner OF
| the walkover horse went TO his barn to get
| The horse out for saddling. and then he
| pulled out enough OF his hair to stuff a
| sofa pillow.
no had hpaD ItF ch5 Md to
| Chicago half an hour before!
1T was the last day of the meeting, ard
| all hands were shipping To Chicago. The
| cars were arranged alongside the track
near the paddock The horse billeted for
| the walkover had been stuffed into the
cars by "A drunken stable man who forgot
az about the walkover engagement.
The bugic call for that walkover was
never blown | believe that there are about
| thousand Diegos now living in that Gin
cinnau row Of tenements that / was goinis
| to buy out of the fruits of that walkover
/ each OF them paying an average OF 81 a
! = onthS for his tenancy. You can dope II
out for yourself. what I'd be making
| a landlord
Just once again 1 got the slapstick in
a walkover. this time in Chicago where |
had that big chunk of Prairie boulevard
| land i'm the corner of my eye.
Il was tipped off three days before the
| running of stake race on one OF the Chi
cago tracks that the wakover had been
! fiXedup and then crept down to OLeary g
future DOCK pant ana dld What cou q 10
| put his book on that race on a lopstdCd
| basis.
| "A barking dog scared the walkovor
! horse as he plugged down the backstre:Ch.
| He jumped into the intield raced over to
the middle of the field. and dropped dead
| on grassy mound, from heart disease.
| right in the presence of the audience.
Meat things walkovers. when you've got
| the right ticket in your bootleg
But L like TO see the red board go up ur-
| der their numbers. all the same. like to
| be shown" G l.. c
Duffy Makes Denial.
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