The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-01
HUhORISIS OF THE PO0LROOM
OPERATORS VINO MAD Fun As
THEY CALLED OFF RACES.
"sausage Wins" the Announcemc Of
Boiogna's victor! DESCRIPTION Of Neg
uSence's Drfcat--1he Many TransfOr-
nations Of the Horse PhilanthrOpist.

uSence's Defcat--Jhe Many Transfor-
nations Of the Horse Philanthroplst.
'The biggest roar Of JOY that ever
heard in poolroom shook the spider webs
from the rafters of a room that [ visited
In Covington the other day, said turf
man just back from trip to tho Kentucky
breeding farms Il was the largest of al!
those huge Covington rooms and a plant
where the top limit is higher than the fish
scale clouds
There were fifteen hundred mon in tho
room on the day ! visited II, and all OF
them we're for Bologna. Bologna is a
smudge of a 81. Fiorian colt that's running
out in California.
A few days before Bologna had shown
his people something at the Oakland track.
over the drink from San Francisco. that
caused them TO bet on him in a four and a
half furlong race. They had backed him
from thirties to about nothing, and he bad
connected beating a very moderate bunch
in pretty nigh a, quick time a. the distance
was ever made in on the Coast
THAT didn't prove anything. Of course
But Bologals people -hooed him onto n
car and had him totcd down the road to
Los Angelo, with the idea that they might
repeat with him at Ascot.
They skidded Bologna into five furlong
race at Ascot the day after they reached
Los Angeles with the colt and it was on
this day that l visited the Covngton room
Every dope THUNDER in the room had his
eye on Bologna name.
"They knew that the little colt with the
ornery name would be at long price,
entered as he was with -printors like Belle
Kinney, II ntros and that kind and, having
the chart Of his neat performance week
before at San Francisco and whmslcally
irnpre ssed. too. with the colts name, a
poolroom players often are they we're Just
waiting for the track price TO 60 up against
that one.
Moreover. there was information in the
room from variou, California horsemen
on Bologna. Again. number of the Gin
cinnnti papers had picked Bologna to cop.
And in addition 10 all this Bologna was
the guaranteed special Of several of the
leading Chicago and Cincinnati tipsters.
The pooroom manager had sardonicaly
pasted the sheets containing the selections
Of these tip.ters on stanchion in the room.
80 that all hands could get a rubber at it.
Bologna price. track odds. went up,
u. anu 7, AK lll'' All'.47Alih Tlllt Il llAAA
men in that Covington room fought Ike
bull moose to get Bologna paStaboards
They were still buying Bologna when the
rane was Of
THE operator in that Covington room
was one of those humorous race callers,
the first of his kind that I've listened 10
for a number Of years.
why. shucks. there they ro at Ascot
a. 4. 9 B. /. -
key announced that they were Of at the Los
Angeles track And. upon me ward. and
a couple OF furv-furi's Bologna has front
end, Belle Kinney is near him, and Blue
Coat trails"
The clamor Of the crowd had cpa-cd
and the quiet all through the vast room
was so intense that tie clicking Of the key
sounded like the drumming of rveter'-
hammer on a hot-air zinc furnace.
-'Oh, sugar. said the humorous operator,
when the key announced the next position
of the horses tha, franbfurter /. at the
quarter by one open length. the Belle being
a simila' distance bcvoud Bhn coat: would
you believe II, mercy" and -till the crowd
ga2Gd open mouttcd without a word.
I'm the Strtch' sung uut the funny
operator. the wif nc ryur-i. two lengths L.
the goodsRy. Is about rcady TO cruck. wher
Relic Kinney Is radv 10 take him, she BEING
n length In front Of II Otros'
Then the fingers began to snap. root
fully, all over the room A man away
in the mar Of the room gave an imitation of
the yelping of a dog in a miJ-up. thus sym
bolicaly expressing his hoDrs for Bologna.
''Close finish said tho operator and
those fifteen hundred men were rantinE
Ike cayuses that have been running away
from prairie fire
The operator suddenly jumped to his