The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-26

of the distance, and had to be de-
stroyed
Two weeks before that the whole out
fit, both House and Senate sides had
gone to" the horse Capitol, running
at Los Angeles, with whoop, Capitol
being tipped as a sure thing by some
body or another, and the bunch on the
horses name adding to the rosiness of
the outlook. Capitol had finished
disgraceful last in field of fourteen.
So that when the committee clerk
with the Honolulu bunch tabulation
glided around the great building and
tried to tell them that Honolulu was
just as good as in they all whitfield
him. They agreed that the bunch look
ed fine on paper, but they declared
that he had faxed some of the con
tributory auguries-which, however, he
really had not, all of them having been
perfectly on tha level, just as he set
them down.
All the same, the seven typewriter
reasons We're good enough for the com
nfttee clerk, who had been swept fore
and aft by the bunch. He had such
an exalted idea of the horse HonoIuJu's
undermining qualities that he figured
it that the horse would be about a 1 to
shot in the field with which he was
entered, despite the fact that he had
not been out for many months. Act
ing on this belief, he pulled $500 out of
his bank, his idea being that the 500
that he would pick UP should the horse
really be a 1 to 8 chance, would come
in handy for spring toggery and such
When he reached the pool room he
Ho ol< i,, ~
of sight of the blackboard, So that he
wouldn't be tempted. by hypnotizing
himself through gazing at juicy odds
against horses running at other tracks,
to play other horses that he liked He
wanted to get the whole $500 down on
Honolulu.
When the first line of betting on the
Kentucky Club Handicap at Hot
Springs came in and was chalked up
on the blackboard the committee clerk |
came near wavering. Honolulu's price |
was 10, 4 and 2 This didn't look right. !
The price was too astonishingly liberal |
against a Star Ruby horse that in |
former years had shown himself TO be |
one of the best mudders in training /
and half brother. besides. to the greet |
nudder Africander. Tt was an unusu-
ally long price, it seemed TO the startled
clerk with the bunch in
view of the fact that there We're only
six horses in the race. The fact that
he bookmakers at Hot Springs had
made Honolulu next to the rank out
si7er in a six-horse field in a mud race. |
with none of the others in the field
Amounting to much. and even with
Honolulu carrying top weight, took .
great deal of the spine out of the
committee clerk, who had expected
othing better than one to three against
lis hunch. Honolulu, not having been
o the post in such long time. couldn't
,e ready or anywhere near ready for
race-that was the only way the
restfallen committee clerk could fix
he thing up in his own mind.
He got hold of a. bunch of old past
charts-''6ope"--an found
hat Honolulu had finished away back
n his four previous starts. a long time |
efore. The old form charts. too. con-
ributed to taking some of the suffer
lg out of his hunch Then he asked
ne of the ticket writer's at st. Asaph )
hat allied Honolulu that he should be t )
I such ridiculous'y long price. :
say" said the ticket writer. die ;
yer take a peek at that o d crab's lees?
Why. he's the worst old Grip in train :
lg Both of his front legs are as big
S bag of oysters at the knees. He's ;
BILE TO fall down on them cagey legs ,
nd lose an eye any minute in a race.
wouldn't play that one " tn Colombo | =
n paper money good when the canals y
ug'' t
Thus the bunch VS. in a fair wav to L
. Dupctured when il was suddenly
fated again by couple OF new feed 2
= Meditating upon the undermining Il
oility of Honolulu's great sire. Star I