The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-09

thoroughbreds who has just arrived at
Benning with the string he raced dur
! ing the winter on the coast, II was
maced for 81 note by little sad mite
of a man who, only a few years ago,
used to have columns written about
his midget personality in the sporting
sections of American newspapers every
day. 1 made it a ten-spot, because the
sight of the little chap down to that
J pass made me bit gulpy. I knew that
stands and bet the sawbuck in 81 in
stallments, but that made no difference
IL felt sorry for him. He bet it, all
| right, in the two-spot allotments, and
that isn't the story. The story is that
| that sad little mite of a mamie isn't
much above his majority even now
was a noted American jockey a few
| years ago. He wasn't the actual pre-
| mier of any year. but he was among
| the cracks of the pigsIzin, and $4,000 or
$4,000 a year wasn't any big yank-
! down for him, leaving out of consid-
Grafton the big bets he won right along
| through inside connections.
But he wouldn't behave. He fell to
fumbling in his prosperous teen-age
with the old juice that throws EN- all,
| high and low. big intellect and pin
head grounding, if they stay with it.
He got his monkey eyes on the shapely
ones of the extravaganzas. He drifted
into shady turf company, and these
driftwood characters of the game bIed
him and then showed him the 'advan-
tages' of the strong-arm business. He
began pulling 'em, discreetly at first,
and then in so raw way that he
wouldn't mind snatching 'em right un-
der the judges stand at the finishing
wire. OF course, the mallet fell on him.
He was ruled off the turf There was
never any chance for him to be rein
stated even if his habits hadn't be-
come impossible. And so now he is a
seedy, mottle-faced, cigarette-eating,
miserable little piece of man. sham
bling wraith-like around the coast
tracks, boning old friends for little
notes-this boy, who in his four or five
years of riding cleaned up perhaps
$4,000, and had comfort not to say
opulence, in his grasp as firmly as any
tooth in his head.
ANOTHER JOCKEYS WAY.
s'Well, on my way here to Washing
ton l stopped off at Chicago for a
couple of days SO, and there 1 met
up with another jockey of the former
time-a jockey of the period of eight
years or so ago. This one was never
quite premier, either, but he was a
boy that any wise owner liked to see
up on his horse when business was
meant. He'd pick up about the same
amount of coin as the one / met at Los
Angeles during his riding career, but
he'd been obliged to quit on account of
increasing weight. Well this one I
met in Chicago was riding around the
boulevards in a buz wagon about the
size of an ocean-going tug. He wore
a fur coat that would make the Rus
sian Grand Duke Gogetemsky's lamps
stick out, and he was living in a house
OF his own that had interiors in it fit
to compete with those interiors you see
$500 ~ III VIC Allci pGS1ueS the
works of art and bijouterie and things,
this house contained as neat a little
wife as you ever clapped an eye upon.
and four or five rudy little boys and
girls pranking around the stairs, en-
joying the luxury their dad had never
known until he'd COPIED it out him
self
Il guess he wasn't contrast with
the down-and-out little ex-riding man
l was boned for the 81 note in Los
Angeles!
The one who settled in Chicago-his
birthplace-has about doubled his bank
roll earned in the saddle, and he's there
with about a quarter of million.
thanks-and you needn't think l have
MT got proper respect for those six
ngures because I roll 'em off so easily.
He's in business, he's got a rent roll,
ne takes a little vichy and milk for
MS, please. when he gets out with one
OF those imbeciIe 'wine-open' punches |
and he's polished up his mind and |
learned how to dip into books intelli- |
gently He can call the turn on a
good picture or bad one. good
bronze or punk one. and he knows a
Whole heap of things about what's GO !
ing on of general human interest in the /
world we live in. And yet. before the +
taking on of weight forced him from
the saddle, he hadn't made a cent more |
than the seedy little wrath of a Jock
staked TO the sawbuck in Los An |
geies. and. if anything. he hadn't en-
Joyed the other mites advantages not
having in fact, been quite so able a |
rider or so brilliant a one. rather.
WOULDN'T BET ON THE HORSES
Does he bet on the horses p"
We'll, I was just coming to that.
Just for the gag of it-for / knew where
he stood in the matter-I said to him:
Paily, I'm taking my string on to
the Washington meeting. and I've got
two or three in pickle that are going
TO make me hire furniture vans to car
ry the dough away. Better pack your
bag and trudge along with me to the
town where the big dome is I.arks.
you know, and We'll get some of those
right kind OF bets down, see?'