Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-29
REFUSED TO CHANGE

Inc people WHO KNOW II nave
been jouncing one Of these gimme-gimme
bookmakers the slack wire since one
Of the days along toward the wind-up of
the sheepshead Bay meeting" said
Washington follower OF the thoroughbred
game who trickles down here on Satur-
day nights to spent Sunday with the folks;
but the layer Is just 81 900 shy of being
able to see where the fun comes In.
"This bookmaker Is one Of those layers
who won't erase a bet. He doesn't take
any that don't look soft to him. and when
his sheetwriter gets 1t registered he won't
switch it even II a thousand affldavits are
submitted to him that mistake has been
made and that the wrong horse has been
played through resemblance In names or
Misrepresentation. He's there with the
along and asks him to change bet on the
eheet, and his bawling apparatus was espe-
ciaily fit and shipshape on the day that he
slipped himself this $11 900 citron.
"A few days before the Sheepshead Bay
meeting finished a clubhouse commissioner
was asked by one Of his clients to get $1,000
down for him the Miller mount in the
days tard:can On his way to the ring the
&C commissioner got glued up mentally. His
recoIiectIon had 1t that Miller was up on
horse in the race on which Radt:e had the
mount, and when he reached the commits
sioner's stool he named this horse upon
which Radtke. was to perform. and the
81, coo bet went down on the sheet that way.
THE commissioner fumbled around the
ring for ten or fifteen minutes, talking
things over. after getting the bet down.
before he accidentally got his gaze fixed on
the Jockey board and saw the mistake he
had made He'd got s.. 900 of another mans
money down on the 8 to thing that Ratke
was going to ride, whereas Miller was up
on the to and rapidly recedins fdVorlte
that his man had really asked him to bet
the coin on
I'm a panic the commissioner started Tor
the layers stool to get the change made II
he could, although, knowing the layer TOT
a good many years. he wasn't vefy hopelui
that he'd be able to get by with the ]ob:
"'Hey, there, mate he called out TO the
bookmaker, I'm in to hand myself a KICK
for the way I got those two JOCKS mlxe 60
I'D in their mounts. My man wantcd me TO
s., 200 Of his on the Radtke crab. Make the
switch for me- won't you? l know that the
Miller thing has been backed down, but ~!
make up the difference in the odGs myself
If the thing wins
matches replied the bookmaker. sardon-
fcally. What dye think I am, moving
picture? To the frs! Each and every
wager made beneath the shade OF TINS pam
hoo tree goes as it Is laid. Back!
".But weakly expostuAted the commis
sioner II tell you got the two jocks ana
their mounts mixed. and this man m pct
''ns Never Iev mind the back-to-th old-home
nnusic nal cut in the layer. When d We
think 7 began to take money away from
myself? That to Miller nursing tna ma.
Won want to climb on. now that YOU 80 S,.
are cold will be Juggling home here an ny
~ ,itt,o solitude in a few minutes. snoulo
like to have you go anyway and permit iiie
to sleep ,u,.. bod 10 take
chance then for himself: ne g. vas haSs y. ont on
bop
the Miller thing. but his own Jaw ~. ~
sticlxing out over the way the pooaIiah 20
had handled him, and he decioeo - ma 1a.ouIS
wouldn't do that. He ngureo sii the pnStke
IT.. wouId beat the Miller one ana enaple
hirn To crowd in behind the layers stoos
With a little Of the gimme-gimme laiA "a
his own. ~ Had arst mast
i've n,,lled to a pretzel to win by only
eioht lengths or so. the commissiohel go
correct Imitation OF Catlilan cas.ae.
fandango, and the mucilaginous. ~, t nersen
- tbe pIoaty layer kept everybody m tiie
na,ehhorhood cheerful for the rest OF the
asternoon. The commissioner didn't OF
course, say anything about tne inI,o1 ,,n to
him to. He'd been prepared to stand me
nonsenuences Of his mistaken bet ana tne
conseauences were that he pulled Gown
5000 Of 2ighead1 aue ebin a that night
NOW man who makes book on the
horses has got to have some spine pue s ne
doesn't necessarily have to nave ossiica
ton Of the conk 1t didnt TAX, Rot me nexse,f to
and ont the curious fact that the pets
folks want to have taken on the sheets or
changed are generally winning bets.
"Remember that Gwynne thing tnat soe
h,, of Renting a few years ago at 100 to i?
mas hooking at Benning then. ana nano-
I'D myself lust 81, 600 worth of benovelence
on that occasion by refraining from s"elt-
ing up when asked to scrape Gwynne Oct
off my sheet
IT had lust finished putting up my chalk
on that race with 100 to l against the
Gwynne thing, when an excited little man
banged his way through me crown r, 1hEu'a a
co,,nla Of inches of my nose, and yelled at
me:
"'Gwynne, straight!
"Gwynne was a joke with me, and so
eava the excited little man $1,000 to $40
against that one, and looked upon the ten
spot as Just about right for dinner money
and loose gum change.
"A few minutes later I heard a great
wrangling between a man and woman
somewhere behind my stool, which was
near one Of the stairways leading to the
erandstand and I wheeled around to see
what was coming off. The little man VINO
had bet the ten bones with me on Gwynne
was being backed into a stanchion. out by
the brick walk. by a big, raw-boned wom-
an plainly his wife. she was ABOUT lour
hands taller than he was, and she looked
as IL she could have made a lunch off him.
She was shaking forefinger in his chart
and ordering him, under dire threats, to
get that $40 off Gwynne. while he was try
ing to convince her that Gwynne had a
show.
But she was from the Ozarks. and
couldn't be shown.
Don't you dare to try to tell me such
nonsense you tackheadr she was saying to
him. The very idee Of your squandering
the last $40 we had on such thing
Gwynne--the very idee! You go to the
man this very instant and tell him that
want that $40 put on the horse 1 gave to
YOU to play-do you hear me, dunce?"
Then the little man skunk over to my
stool. I cut him off when he started to
tell me all about it.
It's all right. old top I told him. I
heard her passing it out ito you, and
you're fixed out. I'll swab the Gwynne bet.
What's the name of the thing you want to
play?'
"He named the horse-I forgot which one
Of the skates it was-and l had the shift
made on the sheet. The little man went
away with his shoulders hunched forward,
looking sad
'.Three minutes later Gwynne had tot
tered home in front of his field. and I was
just 81, 900 to the nice because I hadn't got
the weight-lifter's vest on when the little
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