Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-13


Now. to show you the unreasonableness
OF some men who ask their friends to do
their horse betting for them: In spite Of all
OF the bedevilment through which that
friend Of mine passed In his effort to get
that bet down for the Chicago expressman,
In spite OF every body knowing how he'd
been dumped in his runaway and then
ba ck-heeled by himself into a deep hole IN
the ground, in spite. too, Of Jake's. the
roao-house man. voluble statement and the
supporting testimony of the bookmakers
who had seen the wild-eyed Jake catapult
into the ring waving his soggy $1,000 bill
and begging that 1t be taken on Krss
kringle-in the face Of all this the Chicago
expressman never forgave my friend for
that $4,000 Iose-out on krss kringle' as
he called it. He pretended to take the
story good-naturedly. but In the heart OF
MIN he as convinced that he had got the
IL somewhere or another, and he'll carry
that mean and unworthy Crouch with him
through life.
''The quick and constant shifting of bet
ting odds is another thing that Is almost
pound when,a suspicious mans money Is
being put down by proxy. to give chance
TO work up sort Of hold-out soreness
against his obliging friend and commits
siorer It's all nonsense to say that no
every reason to suppose Is square That
may hold in all of the other relationships
or life. but 1t doesn't go in the racing game
only last summer. at Sheepshead Bay. a
friend of mine. as white and aboveboard
a man as ever laced his own shoes, got
hiTs elf into a mean hash in his frantic eff
fort to get down arother mans money on
horse whose price was being chopped
every time the bookies took a fresh grip on
their pencils.
He hadn't thoroughly learned his little
lesson as to the imbecity of betting an
OTHER mans coin on the race track, and so
When friend one morning passed him 500
ana asked him to paste 1t on a long-priced
good thing that had been smeared up for a
Killing he foolishly took the money.
There ought to be at least 90 to l
against the trick his friend told him; but,
anyhow, don't you take worse than 30 to l.
II you can't get that don't bet the CON- but
bring 1t back
We'll, this good-na tured commissioner
for a friend was alert and waiting for the
betting on that race to open, but there were
a lot of other ones. wise to the trick, who
were doing the same thing. They were
standing right in front of he big bookies'
stools. waiting for the first line of figures
to be slapped up
The two leading bookles opened the
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what the rest of the ring made it. NY
friend with the $500 of proxy money. in his
effort to edge his way up to the stool to
get some of this, accidentally trod on an
other strugglers corns
tie got a sudden paste on the Jaw for
that. and he got right back with an upper
cut and one to the wind. Then the two
went to clinch. a pair of Pinkertons
sWooped upon them instantly and it was
the parade to the exit gate for the pair of
them. My friend knew one of the Plnker-
tons.
Say, give us a chance to get a pals
bundle down., he whispered to the Pink
and then I'll nudge to the gate with YOU
l don't want the fellow whose money I'm
carrying to give me the scream if the long
one COPS
The Pinkerton man was decent about it,
and, glancing about to see if his ubiquitous
chlef, that everywhere Robert Pinkerton
man, was rubbering, and finding for a won
der. that Ire wasn't. he let my friend slip
up to one of the big books to take a peek
at the changed prices.
The good thing had already in that brief
space been whitfield down to 10 to /, and
that, of course. according to the instruc-
tons, let my friend out so far as get
ting the other mans $500 down was con-
cerned. But he liked the thing so much
himself that he got down $500 of his own
money in two books on the trick at the
10-to-1 figure, and he took II all straight
the Pinkerton man to be conducted, with
the touchy chap with the corn. to the gate
for fighting. according to race track rule.
They bob bought new badges and came
right back, Of course. and my friend was
back in time to see the good thing go
through in a canter.
We'll. a lot Of knockers saw him cashing
in his 5000 bundle after the race, and
they magnified the size OF the wad about
ten times. My friend returned the $500 to
his friend and explained to him how he had
failed to make the bet at the top price.
1T didn't go, of course. The knockers
told the other man how they had seen my
friend cashing in roll as big as noun
tain hotel bed quilt, and the other man be-
lieves right down to the present moment
that my friend got the 500 straight at 100
10 l and drilled him out of a pat $4,000
Up to this bend into the stretch I've
been talking about the inadvisabiIity to
put 1t IN that mild way-of betting money
on race track for other men But accept
Ing womans money to bet on a horse
race-well. for the pinhead thatll consent
TO do that the green ticket for the conk
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