The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-05-21

Bennings track the other afternoon a
tout sided alongside kansas" Price
and without knowing the identity of
the man he was talking to proceeded to
tell the halter man. that one of his,
Prices. horses in a race about to be
run had no show on earth to be in the
money-'Price himself just told me So"
added the tout-a group of horsemen,
owners and trainers fell to tanning
over similar occurrences in which not
ed horsemen figured.
When Green Morris brought that
shifty trick of his, Cunard, to the East
ern races" said trainer. he started
him first in one of the big two-year-
old events at Morris Park-the Nation
al Stallion, 1 think it was. Cunard had
shown Green things, and he was sure
that he had the winner, particularly
as the track was deep that day and
Cunard revelled in the mud.
"Old Green. who, as everybody knows
has been at the game almost since the
Battle of New Orleans, was wandering
around the Morris Park lawn an hour
or so before the race. when the talk
of man who was going about touting
marks caught his ear.
THE chinny chap had the for-sure
winner of the big two-year-old race,
! he said to the softies, and he proceed
ed to show them how by elimina ting
everything on the programme of the
event except the one he had picked to
cop.
He went over the list from top to
bottom pointing out how this and that
/ one had no show whatever. and when
| he came to the name of Cunard on
the programme he threw back his
head and laughed hard
'Scuse me- gents he said to his
group of good things, but that one
| jes makes me taught can't help it,
honest t Gawd I can't.
| 'Cunard, hey? Say, hasn't that old
| Western duck, Green Morris, got his
noive along Wit him t. t'ink he can
! skate along here wit crab an win in
a boss race like this'n's goin' t. be?
| Amt he?
I tor him So myself this mornin',
an he comes t tn front an says he
knows he amt got no chanst,- but he
says he's jes' goin' t run his Cunard
! colt FIR woik as long as he got him en-
| tered.
SO you can cut out that lob. 1
seen him woik yistiddy, an he runs
| like a spawned camel. So, v see. they S
| on'y one in it an that ones and
| so on.
well. old Green's bright, youthful
eyes glowed when he heard that tout's
CUFF and the grins flickered over his
face like shadows over vitagraph film.
He followed the talky tout over the
grounds for half an hour listening to
him.
Now, we all know what a big effect
the talk of a sure enough busy tout
has when that talk is addressed ex-
clusively to punches of holiday visitors
at a racetrack One of the marks goes
off and tells all his friends. also marks,
that he lust heard a well known horse
man say go and so, and that's the
kind of talk that sticks and makes
prices. 1t will even switch the wise
ones when they get it repeatedly and
strongly.
Long before the big two-year-old
race the word had sifted all over the
Morris Park grounds that Green Nor
ris didn't like Cunard or any part of
him for the juvenile event. The ru-
NOR even hit the bookies' line and the
LAYERS took the story as it reached
them and chalked a juicy price against
the Morris colt
Morris and the people close to him
got the cream of the big price. and
Morris made one of the big clean-ups
of his life. for Cunard had the race at
his mercy, and took it with ease.
After Cunard's number was up old
Green dug around and found the tout
leaning in a dazed sort of way agaist
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