Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-29

through speculation and let Il go at that.
but he replied that his family and his flock
had just as much horror OF any sort OF
speculation as they had of a horse race. and
he went away looking puzzled and twisted.
Another odd winner on an American
Derby was a prim and pretty little school,
mistress In town In central missouri
Shed experienced the first 'hunch" OF her
young life In reading the names of the
horses carded to go to the post in that event
seven eight years ago. The piece OF
newspaper in which she read the list OF
horses slated for the American Derby was
wrapped around her lunch. and she acct
dentally looked over the list during the
noon hour recess as she munched her sand
wiches The young woman mad recently
had some sort of funny experience with
cheap red jacket that had lost its color
and faded to a dingy pink. and the connec-
ton between this incident and the name or
the horse that struck her eye. PINK Coax.
furnished the bunch. 1t didn't take her
long to make up her feminine mfnd ina.
Pink Coat was going to be the goods, ana
she began to send in most or her wages on
Pink Coat to annex unto himself the Amer1-
can Derby. When Pink Coat romped home
she was Informed by wire by the maker OF
the future book that she was $3.50 TO the
good The information contained In the
telegram leaked out of the little village
Telegraph Office and the country paper pup
lished the startling and horrifying news
that the teacher of the countryside chiijren
leading double Ire, CDal sne was d
gambler" and that she had caught the
winter book on the American Derby 10 the
tune of $500.
Old Nick was to pay at orce. The school
committee Immediately visited the young
woman and asked her about it. She stood
pat.
Coat and" she added. audaciously, 1 m
glad of it, l can use the money
The members of the school co nmlttes shot
sheepish elances at one another, and some
of them had human gizzard enough to grin.
''Well bully for you, young lady, hnaiiy
burst out one of the fsank members OF me
school committee Were all Jealous be-
cause you picked the winner. that's all. 1
wish I'd had the same luck-l played the
one that ran last and that's the truth con-
sarn it,
Whereupon several others of the school
committed came to the front and owned up
to it that they, too, had tried to cop some
of the future book coin on the Deroy' put
that their picks had finished among tns
also rams The school committee voted
unanimously to permit the young woman
to hold on to her job. If she wanted IT, In
spite of her sinful gambling propensitles,
but the women of the settlement oo"iIeu
them on that and the young woman re-
signed her school teaching billet with PEI :
feet willingness, renarking that she thought
she was lust a ieetle too strong TO teacil
srhooI anv longer for 500 a month. land
board around" any longer. anyhow
Sold the winning llCheI'
The gloomiest man who ever switched
from one leg to the other on a race track
was a welI-known New York follower OF
the pony game who, five years ago, when
the prices went up against the Candidates
for the Brooklyn handicap bet 500 straight
ON the Featherstone entry, Arsenal and
Reina at 200 to T. He'd made that future
book bet in a flush moment, but not long
afterward he fell into poor streak anu
finally went down and out.
He was all in and worse while playing
faro bank at a New York plant one night,
and In digging around in his pockets to see
If he had any sleepers tucked away any
where he came across his 10000 to Slo6
ticket on Arsenal and Reina. coupled, to
grab the Brooklyn handicap.
Say, d ye like either one of these crabs
to COP the Brooklyn?' he asked the pro
pretor OF the faro bank, who was hover
ing around.
Liked that pair we'll enough to back EN-
for a little piece only two days ago re-
piled the faro bank proprietor.
What price did you get?' inquired the
busted horse follower.
Sixty to one-theyre nibbling on that
pair and the price has been cut replied
the faro bank man.
Would you like 800 worth of Arsenal
and Rena at 90 to ~ asked the man
who was broke
who's going to lay IT. asked the faro
The fundless chat flashed his future
book ticket
You're on" said the bank proprietor.
taking the ticket. How dye want the
hundred-in Chips?
The busted man nodded, and took 500
worth of chips. which he quickly lost.
On the day of the Brooklyn handicap the
man who had slOughed off his grand ticket
was still all to the bad financially. but he
managed to get hold of a $2D note to put
on Advance Guard, the favorite in the race,
that ran second. All in all, the writer here
of never clapped eye upon q sadder-looktng
individual than that busted chap was when
the despised Reina-there was good as
100 to l against the mare right up to post
time-came home in fine drive under the
pllotage OF Winnie O'Conuor, beating Ad-
vance Guard out right handily. But the
pleasant part OF the incident was that the
faro bank man was decent enough to hunt
up the busted one that night and slip him
5000 out of the big win.
"Hunch" on Kinley Mack.
The winter books were slaughtered good
and plenty by the piking hunch players the
year that that grand and always underes-
timated race horse Kinley Mack won both
the Brooklyn and the Suburban handicaps,
This horse the followers of the game will
recall. got his namc in a peculiar way. His
part owner, a Montana man, wrote to
President Mckinley while the colt was still
colt Mckinley The President thought that
that would be undesirable, and so wrote
back to the Montana man. The Montana
man became rather foolishly sore and cha
grined over this and out Of a somewhat
trivial feeling OF spltefulness he turned the
Presidents name around and called the
colt Kinley Mack. The colt made good as
soon as he was sent to the races, and when
1t was found what a really noble individual
he was A great many race followers of the
republican faith were mighty sorry that the
colt wasn't named Mckinley straight.
But the turning around of the horse $
name didn't bother the people all over the
country, who took the name as a bunch.
They thought only OF Mr. McKinley's al
most invariable success at the polls and,
when the prices went up for the Brooklyn
and the Suburban a couple of years later,
they shot In their coin on Kinley Mack to
win both of these events. The flu
ture bookmakers were at first glad that
this big bunch was working for Kinley
Mack : feet were under suspicion, and his
chances TO win either of the big events
were not thought much of by the handicap
pers. But when the kinney Mack money
continued to stream in the future book
makers began to wake up. They cut the
kinney Mack price again and again, but
that didn't stop the tremendous inflow of
Kinley Mack coin. Even though Kinley