The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-07

] OF the tongue Ine OtutT Jay WIS an NAaihhAo
| Of an unusually clever and, at bottom,
| lovable man, who permitted himself 70 be
| destroyed by en- ungoyernable temper,
said one Of the veteran layers Of the Metro
| polltan Turf Association the boolmakers'
club. Carroll had no more control Of his
| temper and his tongue than / have OF the
meteorological conditions Of Egypt.
"Oncs having worked himself into pas
sion-and the most trivial annoyance sent
| him off-he was absolutely the most violent
man ever knew, He really tried 10 con-
| troll himself, too am sure Of that. But
! be never succeeded in downing his habit
| Of breaking into the most marrow curdling
expressions Of rage.
AT such times his vocabulary Of vitupera-
! ton end soorn was "a unique as It was
appalling He would storm like a mailman,
the veins in his forehead swollen like whip
cords and his whole frame trembling with
q boundless wrath-and all Of this over
| little annoyances Of the most trifiing sort,
such az most bOokmakers have to expert
ence and do oxpei -nos, dozen times
every day, with a smile.
Carroll finally sacrificed the friendship
OF scores Of associates and fellow layers
who could not understand him and who
had tempers Of their own. His violence
told heavily upon his prosperity, which
was very great at one time, upon the esteem
in which he would otherwise have been
held, and am very sure that 1t told upon
his health, too, for he was the merest nervous
rag after one of his outbursts.
sMore allowance would have been made
for Carroll had he been an ordinary type
Of booknaker. But he wasn't ordinary
/ L. - Il ~ a
noted family, the Louisiana branch Of the
Maryland CAROLS, and up to the time
when he went in for bookmaktng he had
never been required TO do a days work
In his life.
HE was graduated with the very highest
honors from the University OF Virginia
30 far ahead Of the rest Of his class that
he had no competitors. Then he studied
law and was admitted to the Louisiana
bar. He never practised, but drifted into
the horse game through a natural love
for It.
After he became bookmaker on big
scale a thousand ami one stories Of his
outbursts gained wide circulation among
turf followers. A good many Of these
stories were made out OF the whole cloth.
The time came when every story Of a saw
age conflict between any bookmaker and
bettor was fastened upon Carroll.
He got into any number Of fights with
bettors who took oiiense at his way OF
faring UP over little slips Of oarelessness
on their part and on several occasions he
had to take beatings But he would fight
| like tiger even when IL was plain that he
was outcassed, and Il made no difference
TO him IL the man upon whom he rounded
was nine feet high, he'd 60 as far as his
strength permitted and then take his medi-
cine. On several OCCASIONS his life was
saved In these mix-ups only by the inter-
vention Of the ring police.
such a beating came his way down In
Washington at the Bennings track, nine OF
ten years ago. As he sat on his stool he
was approached by a tall, lanky country
man Marylander from one Of the Eastern
Shore counties, and those Eastern Shore
fellows are tough men to become engaged
| with.
aThe Marylander being new to the racing
! game. wasn't certain what horse he wanted
10 bet on, and began TO run his big foreiinger
up and down the names OF the horses on
| Carroll's price program. Carroll grew pur-
! pie with wrath without the slightest reason
and direc ted a torrent OF abuse at the
! countrvman,
THE Marylander didn't say word, but
stood gaping, open mouthed and stunned
over the surprise OF the thing, at the book
maker Carroll had reached the end Of
about his tenth phrase Of denunciation
when the Marylander without waiting for
any more Of it, reached out his right hand,
| pulled the layer from his stool, and pro-
oeeded TO give him a busting Of that 1t
hurt fellow to look at.
Il believe that Eastern Shore man would
have broken every bone in CAROLS body
! had not three or four officers rushed in and
! grappled with him. They had all they
could do TO pull the Marylander away, and
! il took the Drawn Of three or four Of the
! biggest District Of Columbia policemen
! on the grounds 10 get the man 70 the track
when the Maryander was brought I'D
| in the Washington police court on the fol-
| lowing day and told his story TO heJudge
| he was released. The Judge said that he
| had heard and read OF the violence Of Car
rolls temper, and that he didn't blame the
! countryman for tackling him after such
| provocauOn.
sOncc, at Western raOetrack, an enemy
! hired a thug to slug Carroll in the betting
! ting. The thug, TO owing instructions
walked up 10 CAROLS booth and offered
! the layer three quarters, two dimes and a
! nickel as dollar bet on some horse in a
| race.
Carroll had such an antipathy 10 silver
| money that almost believe that II some
! body had presented him with a carload OF
! Il ne would have got rid Of II at half its face
value rather than continue TO own Il. The
enemy Of CAROLS knew this, and that's
| why he sent the thug 70 Carroll's stall with
| the chickenfeed dollar bet
Carroll took the silver change and
promptly tossed It into the thugs face
| This was what the tough was looking for,
and he instantly tackled the layer
THE inequality in the size and trim Of
| the two men was so Immediately manifest
| that a number OF the layers in surrounding
| booths jumped in and tore the thug from
on top Of Carroll. Later on, while drunk,
the hired thug told the story Of how he had
been employed to do Carroll, and the story
! reached CAROLS ears.
The bookmalSeT instantly set to work to
ruin that enemy in a financial way, and stuck
with the Job for two years. At the end Of
that time his enemy was without a dollar
and Carroll deliberately went TO him and
told him how he had been broke. The man
tried 70 shoot Carroll in a hotel lobby, but
was seized and overpowered.
when Carroll reached the raoetrack
In one OF his bad humors TO 20 on the block