The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-04-11
BIG HUNCH PLAY
ON THE WRESTLER
Everybody Got Aboard Good
q Thing at Benning.
MONEY POURED IN ON HIM
Lament of the Layers Over Success of
Dream Bettors-Belmont
May Retire.

Whether or not It was the fact that
the big Mackey-Grant wrestling bout
was large IN the public mind at the
Z moment. somehow every sport in FIVE
counties hereabo1ts was down on The
wrestler yesterday at Benning. in one
OF the cleanest and most Joyous clean
UPS OF the current meeting Give n
Washington race fan "hunch" and he
Is down for the limit There have been
good things Embossed before today
among the local following OF the races.
but it is not within the memory OF the
writer to recall an occasion where such
a deluEe of money ever conferred on a
preferred and inside speculation as that
seen on The Wrestler yesterday. Men
OF the downtown business section and
many others were on hand for the mel
Ion cutting, and this time the books
bore the brunt of the festivity, for the
good thing. contrary 10 tradition.
came home on the bit.
Last evening, Sol Liehenstein was at
the ringside of the Grant Mackey con-
test. Yes" said he, wrestling is fierce
enough for anybody, but that The
Wrestler was the toughest thing 1 ran
into this meeting. Cost me $4.5O."
Every book In the ring lost out to
The Wrestler
Lest you hear somebody talking of
The Wrestler today and are at a. loss
to comprehend the situation, here is the
dope on him. The Wrestler is a fine
big bay colt by Orlando. sire of the
crack Ally Whimsical, and is owned by
the Chelsea Stable, of whom a New
Orleans newspaper man is one OF the
proprietors. The colt was named after
Charley" Oleson, of AsheviIIe, n. c.,
one OF the greatest OF American WreSt-
slers and soon TO appear in this city
be started in the third race, where
maiden twO-yedr-olds went four and
one-half furlongs Telling stood the
natural choice at to D. while The
Wrestler opened in the market at about
the same price, for he had worked a
haH IN O-49 and was reputed one of the
fastest youngsters hereabouts But the
p money went 10 The Wrestler. His price
went as low as to 10 at one time and
he finally closed an equal first choice
with the IleiinS at TO .. Robbins sent
him TO the front at the turn for home
and It was gallop thereafter.
In connection with the sale OF the
great English horse, Rocksand, to
August Belmont for sl25O0e. it was stat
ed at Benning yesterday that the chair
man OF the Jockey Club, was soon to
take up permanent residence abroad
III health and d Discrimination to longer
shoulder the great work and RESPONSE
bilities attached to the representation
or the Rothschilds millions in this coun-
try, are assigned as the causes for this
action.
One OF the oldest things OF the meet
ing occurred yesterday afternoon at
Benn1ng. A patron OF the betting ring
could have looked around at the little
Pagoda which serves as the Western
Union headquarters, between the second
and third races, and there beheld a
crushing mob OF perhaps a half hun
dred persons massed against the re-
ceiving clerks window ''Oh, some one
hurt and taken in there to be revived I
guess" remarked a casual race PLAYER
as he passed along some distance away
But such was not the case
Nothing excitess a racetrack crowd
like the report Of Fire" and this was
at the bottom of the mob scene" at
the telegraph emporium. Between the
second and third races. while the down
town business men were engaged peeling
on their bank bills preparatory 10 the
onslaught on The Wrestler some one re
ported fire at the Raleigh Hotel. From
one man II spread to a thousand and in
a 1lny more persons tran Chief Clerk
n. +. PlaH could answer at the same
time were assembled in front of the
pagoda. The rumor was utterly with
out foundation