Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-08-03
SOME RACING R
From the Washington Star.

York ayenue surface line of cars. Ben
ning-bound.
He wasn't so eager to make the
rack In time for the first race
o'clock-on his w account. But he
had a $40 note, belonging to a friend,
in his clothes. to be wagered on Win
chester in the first race.
lie was considerably worried, how
ever. when, on boarding the New York
avenue car at Fourteenth street, he fig
ured that, with the c~learest right Of
way and the. best going, the car would
n just about make Benning in time
for the first race.
The car hustled along at a pretty
good clip till the bridge Over the East
ern branch was reached. Then the
cars fuse or hew-gag, or something or
other, burned out, and it came to a
standstill. 1t vas then eight minutes
to 8. The young man with the $40 note
10 go on Winchester for a friend broke
out in a cold perspiration. There was
no chance for the car to reach the Ben
ming gate in time for any of it's pas
sengers to play the first race. Sup
posing Winchester were to win at 20
or 80 to ] or some such foolish figure!
He was In a sad fume over the situa-
ton, when, TO the rear of the car, he
heard the notes OF a three-strap auto
mobile siren. The young man leaped
out of the stalled car, ran over to the
middle OF the road and waved his arms
wildly directly In the path Of the ap.
preaching buzz-wagon. The machine
slowed up.
Hey, there, Jim; what the dickens
ails you?" the driver of the car called
u to the young man. Il can't give
you a lift-wagon's packed full now"
Don't want any lift" replied the
young man, hurriedly. Here, take
this" handing the owner of the auto-
mobile a $40 note, "a get it on Win
chester in the first race for me. Money
belongs to a friend of mine, and the
blamed Winchester horse is liable to
cop and cut me out of a summer vaca-
ton If don't get the bet down some
way, and
The man in the b~uzz-wagon under
stood. He took the so and was on
his way before the young man in the
road had finished his explanation.
When the young man with the quick
thinking habit got to the entrance the
owner of the automobile was waiting
for him at the turnstile. He had $110
in his hand.
II got the bet down." he said, Just
as the NUTS were lined up TO break.
Winchester wins. and l got 10 to l."
The f street youths sudden impulse
to jump from the stalled car and stop
the automobile had been worth just
500 to him.
AS to that same Winchester race,
George Sheridan, a we'll known follow
or of the game from Chicago, and a
heavy bettor when he kinks he is in
good, had a dry remark to make when
the numbers went up. Sheridan had
gone to- some other horse in the race
to the une of $500. When Winchester
finished in the van, "breezing,'' Sheri-
Ian, who was standing just behind the
press box, damned his hat over his
eyes, thrust his hands into his pockets
and observed g~rouchily:
winchester, hey? And Sheridan
twenty miles away"
The sac story attaching to almost
every case wherein one man bets an
other mans money at a race track
had it's ten-millionth exemplitication in
the race which Fiat won, with as good
as 10 to l against him.
A Pennsylvania avenue restaurateur
who went to the track by the steam
cars on that day was held up by a
friend at the station. The friend
couldn't get away from his business to
go to the track that day, it seemed,
but he had a tip on Fiat n wanted tC
get 500 down. Would his friend, the
restaurateur TAX the $40 and play
Fla straight for him.? h restaurant
eur, remembering SOME doleful I'M
cidents in connection with proxy bet
lllS anu HdNllS a hCSh CiiS u MS w
notorious observation-disclosures besides,
tried TO duck, but he couldn't get out
of IL. His friend was insistent, and
so the man took the $40 and
promised TO get il down on Fiat in the
last race.
BY the time he reached the tract the
absent-minded restaurateur had clean
forgotten all about hat $40 Fia money
to be put down for his friend. He
ltIApt IL fant cfaN or fha track for tho
last race at all. He cleaned up about
$40 UP TO and including the fifth race,
and then he concluded that he'd got
all that ought to be coming to him for
one day, and started TO town in an
electric car. On the way in he began
to figure up his bank roll. checking off
his bets and winnings. He found that
he was 500 ahead of the balance figures,
and he was very gloatful. indeed.
' well, this said he to himself, lis
the first time l ever got ahead of a
bookmaker or a b~ookmaker's crew. One
: of those cashiers must have given me
500 too much In settling one of my bets.
Fine, / suppose I'll spend the whole
day tomorrow looking up that cashier
and giving him back the $50 he gave
me by mistake-yes. yes" and he con-
tinued to gloat most cheerfully all the
way back to town in the electric car.
He met the nan who a given him
4 the $50 Fiat money When ne got on the
car to change For his restaurant at the
! transfer station. The Fiat mar began
! to execute difficult and involved Jig
steps as soon as he saw the r%estaura-
teur.
VOW! I guess I'm the poor horse
picker, amt L." he gurgled to the res.
t%aurateur. Tn a perfect shine at this
thing OF lighting on the long ones. amt
i? Just telephoned to the track and
found out hat little old Fiat copskies
at 10 to 1. Wow, Gimme my $500, old
mainland much obliged to you for get
ting II down."
The restaurateur had remembered, of
course, long before his gurgly friend
lac concluded rs happy little speecb
And, without > word. he went into his
dungarees and dug up the $500. Blu
the next time he let's any friend hold
him up at a race track the capital OF
the United States will he Au~rora-in-the-
Ozarks. and that shift. II is generally
understood, Is ON little distance in
the future.
Equally sad, as the result OF his or
handedness. was a young gentleman
from Baltimore. who. n day last
week. brought a couple of young WON
en- friends over from the Monumental