Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-14
FREAK BETS MADE AT ATLANTIC CITY
Having Nothing Else to Do Sorts
Ganbl n a Small Way
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money shots. and there has been quite
kick over the way the dog handbook
makers round their books up and give
themselves all the best of it in making
fox terriers even propositions.
The roller chairs offer all sorts of
betting schemes, especially at night,
when the boardwalk is fairly packed
with them. They bet with each other
as to whether the next roller chair to
so by the imaginary line will contain
one person, or two, or three. The
double chair is the favorite pick, as
most of the chairs contain two persons.
| But a man who stuck to the double
chairs for half an hour the other night
almost went out of business before he
discovered that he was to the bad. The
convention of car builders was on here,
and. the double chairs having all been
engaged. the members of the associa-
/ tion had chartered all of the singdle
chairs they could find. and these single
chairs went by the given point by
scores.
There are a number of big roller
chairs built for three but to 1 is the
prevailing price against one of these
crossing the imaginary line next. and
the triple chair game is hard to beat
at that
Then the freak bettors occa sionally
pass the morning bathing hour in
bathers will or will not go into the surf.
4 woman decked out in a dainty bath
ing dress that looks as if it had never
been intended to he soused in the sea
water at all makes her appearance on
the beach and proceeds to stroll up and
down with a companion.
'Bet YOU she won't go in" says one
chance taker to another.
"Of course she won't, but what are
YOU laying on your proposition" says
the other.
well you can have 500 to s, or $40 to
So" says the man who wants to lay
against the woman with the dainty
bathing dress going into the water
Pretty short price. aud I've got no
chance to cop. but you're on. Just to
pass the time" replies the other, and
then they stand by on the sand and
wait for the outcome. The man who
lays the price against the woman with
the splendiferous bathing fixtures going
in generally hauls down a bet of this
kind but there are exceptions
New York man dropped a 800 note
on one of these exceptions only a few
days ago. He was walking along the
strand with a ggileless seeming Phila-
delphia friend during the bathing hour,
when pretty singing actress playing
here appeared on the sand fixed for
bathing. and fixed within about an inch
of her life. Her bathing dress was Il
confection of salmon hued silk, with
sandals and stockings and cap to
match. She was not only corseted, but
laced, and her hair looked as if the
! hair dresser had only done it up a few
minutes before. Not only that but her
eyebrows We're cleverly spenciled and
there seemed to be a bit of rouge on her
cheeks, which are naturally somewhat
paler.
This singing actress is woman pos
sessed of a beautiful figure, and, as she
| was gotten up. there didn't seem to be
| a chance in the world that she would
go into the water and get herself
mussed up. She walked down to the
beach with long pongee silk robe
around her and her black maid trailing
behind. When she got to within about
100 PAGES of the water she beckoned
to her maid and then she tossed off
her pongee robe and stood revealed in
all the fancy bathing fiXings.
Great work" commented the New
Yorker to his Philadelphia companion.
| Sun baths for her. strolling up and
down and stalking all hands to a treat.
Not a chance in the world that she'll
even get her tootsies Damp
The New Yorker recognized the
actress. and he figured that he had a
cinch in making mis- offhand statement.
ooh, | dunno" said the Philadel-
phian, in a slow kind of way. "she
may go in at that
Bet you $10o to $40 she doesn't get
! her sandals even wet" said the New
| Yorker.
You're on" said the Philadelphian,
ana he had hardly finished speaking
before the actress took up graceful
trot from the little sand knoll upon
which she had been standing and ran
smack into the water. She not only ran
into 1t. but she dived into it, newly
fixed coiffure and ALL and she swan out
beyond the breaker line and enjoyed
herself with dolphin-like grace for
! twenty minutes before returning to the
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