Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-07-30

tacklinS him after such provocatiun.
Once mt Western race track, an
enemy hired IL thug to slug Carroll In
the betting ring. The thug, following,
instructions, walked up to Carrots
booth and offered The layer three quar-.
ters, two dimes and Il nicklc as a dol
lar bet on some horse in Il race
Carroll had such an antipathy to
silver money that almost believe
that if somebody had presented
him with carload of it he
would have got rid of il at half its
face value rather than continue to own
1t. The enemy of Carroll knew this.
and that's why he sent the thug to
Carroll's stall with the chickcnfced
dollar bet.
Carroll took the silver change AMI
promptly tossed 1t into the thugs face.
This WAS what the tough was looking
for. and he instantly tackled the layer
THE inequality III the size AMI trim
OF the men was SO Immediately mani
fest that number of the layers in sur
rounding booths jumped in and tore
the thug from on top of Carroll Later
ON, while drunk, the hired thug told
the story of how lie had been employ
eli to do Carroll, and the story reach
ed CAROLS ears.
The bookmaker instantly set to
work to ruin that enemy in ilnan-
cial way. and stuck with the job for
two years. At the chd of that time
his enemy was without dollar, and
Carroll deliberately went to him AMI
told him how lie had been broke. The
man tried to shoot Carroll in Il hotel
lobby, but was seized and oycrpow
cred y,
when Carroll reached the race
track. in one Of his bad humors to go
ON the block for the afternoons rae
ing, he'd take any kind of reckless
chance to feed his passion. He was
the originator of that far from pleas
ant little scheme which some book
makers still have of hosting the price
against Il horse right before the eyes
Of n bcttOr who has just taken a much
smaller price. Carroll fell into the
habit of doing this out of mere ag-
SrcSsvencss.
"Onc afternoon, ut New York
track. Carroll was laying the top price
in the ring against the horse Herald
Ilc didn't know anything, as the ring
saying runs, but he was taking all the
money that came his way on the horse
at the high figure.
can insignificant looking better
with whom Carroll wasn't then ac-
Quaintcd, walked up To his stool and
asked for 50 worth of Herald Carroll
then having s to on his slate. 1t was
in the days of tickets. and CarrOll's
ticket writer hadn't any sooner scrib-
blcd the SIG to 81 ticket and chaiked
ZIP 10 to !, while the 50 bcttor stood
ind watched the operation with n
+, chaGrined expression
"'Give me dollar on Herald at
that 10 to price, said the insignia
cant looking bettor offering a dollar
bill.
No dollar bets, growlcd Carroll
f, quickly. What do you think | am
running hcrc-a rummagc salc?"
The quiet little man reached into
another pocket and flashed wad the
size OF Il bar of kitchen soap.
Bet you 4 hundred on Herald,
them he said, skinning century note
from the roll.
why, sure said Carroll, taking
the money, and he instantly erased the
10 to against Herald from his slate
, and put up ~ to in its place.
"'I'll bet you five hundred at ~ to
| l., said the insignificant looking bet
/ tor, with the greatest GOODNESS in the
| world
You're on. snapped Carroll al
, though he was already laying about six
whole points higher than the ring
place.
"But as soon as he took the $500 he
started to put up 10 to /. when tho yell
They're off! rang through the stand
Carroll's stubbornncss and aggressive
ness we're so keen that actually be-
F, licve that he'd have boosted the price
| against Herald to II to ! rather than
surrender to tho quiet chap who was
/ taking the benefit of the boosts even IL
i he stood to go broke In doing it.
Herald won the race i'm n walk, and
Carroll's reckless boosting scheme had
cost him thousands of dollars. The
insignificant looking, man, who after
ward became one of the most noted
! plungers of his time, knew all about
Carroll's popularity before approach
ing his stool, and had liberately play
ed upon 1t to egg the bookmaicr on to
giving him an immensely ont of line
top price.
"At Saratoga one day Carroll recciv-
ed Il lesson In the way of n little talk
from an eelderly Southern gentleman
that lasted him for long while.
! "Tne old Southerncr, who was a
good bettor, and had been attracted TO
Cnrroll's stool by having heard his as
sociates call him Virginia. lie had
also before starting to bet with 'Ylr-
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