The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-08-03
SOME RACING r
From the Washington Star.

ESSS AN11 NAkbS
afternoon. Then he broke out of his
ONCE at a canter, making for the New
York avenue surface line of cars, Ben
ning-bound.
He wasn't so eager to make the
track in time for the first race-3
o'clock-on his own account But he
had a $40 note, belonging to Il friend.
IN his clothes, to he wagered ON Win
chester in the first race.
He was considerably worried, how
ever, when, on boarding the New York
avenue car at Fourteenth street, he fig
ured that. with the clearcst right of
way and the best going, the car would
only just abou make Benning in time
for the first race.
The a 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 was then eight minutes
TO 8. The young man with the $40 note
to go on Winchester for a friend broke
out In a cold p~erspiratlon. 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 l or some such foolish figure!
He was In a sad fume over the situa-
ton. when. to h 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
alls you?" the driver of the car called
out to the young man. :! can't give
Don't want any lift" replied the
young man. hurriedly. Here. take
this" handing the owner of the auto
mobile a $40 note, "and get 1t on Win
chester in the first race for me. Money
belongs to a friend of mine, n the
blamed Winchester horse is liable to
cop and cut me out of a summer vaca-
ton if 1 don't get b bet down some
way, and"
The man in the buzz-wagon UNDER
stood. He took the $40 and was on
his way before the young man in the
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 $11O
in his hand.
II got the bet down. he said, Just
as the NUTS were lined up to break.
inchest wins, and I got 10 to L."
The F street youths sudden impulse
to jump from the stalled car n stop
the automobile had been worth just
500 to him.
AS to that same Winchester race,
George Sheridan, a we'll known follow
er of the game from Chicago, and a
heavy bettor when he thinks he is in
good. had a dry remark to max when
the numbers went up. Sheridan had
gone to" some other horse in the race
to the tune Of $500. When Winchester
finished in the van. "breezing," Sheri-
Ian. who was standing just behind the
press box, jammed his hat over his
eyes, thrust his hands into his pockets
and observed grouchily:
winchester, hey? And Sheridan
twenty miles away"
Mi sad story attaching to almost
every case wherein one man bets an
other man money at a race track
had it's ten-millionth exe1nplitication in
the race which Fiat won, with as good
as 10 to / against him.
A Pennsylvania avenue restaurateur
who went to the rae by the steam
cars on that day was held W 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 and wanted tc
restaurateur take the $40 and play
Fiat straight for him? The restaurant
eur, remembering some doleful in
cidents in connection with proxy bet
ting and having a keen sense of his own
notorious observation-disclosures besides,
tried to duck, but he couldn't get out
Of it. His friend was insistent,' and
so the restaurant man took the $40 and
promised to get it down on Fiat in the
last race.
By the time he reached the track the
absent-minded restaurateur had clean
forgotten all about that $40 Fiat money
to be put down for his friend. He
didn't, in fact, stay at the track for the
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 $40 ahead of the balance figures,
and he was very gloatful, indeed.
well, this said he to himself, lis
the first time 1 ever got ahead OF a
| bookmaker or a booklnaker's crew. One
Of those cashiers must have given me
I $40 too much in settling one of my bets.
day tomorrow looking up that cashier
and giving him back the $40 he gave
me by mistake-yes. yes" n he con-
tinued to gloat most cheerfully all the
way back to town in the electric car.
He met the man who had given him
IIS 3GV T Il lLlOiIGy "AASlA AC 6oI OLL ALAC
car to change for his restaurant at the
transfer station. The Fla man began
to execute difficult and involved Jig
steps as soon as he saw the restaura-
teur.
"Yow! 1 guess I'm the poor horse
! picker, amt II" he gursled to the res
taurateur. I'm a perfect shine ut this
thing of lighting on the long ones. amt
1? Just telephoned to the track and
: found out that little old Fiat copskies
, at 10 to 1. WOW! Gimme my 1920, old
. man-and much obliged to you for get
ting it down."
The re~staurateur had remembered, of
course, long before his gurgly friend
had concluded IT'S happy little speedy
And, without q word, he Went into his
dungarees and dug up the 1920. But
the next time he lets any friend hold
him up at a race rack the capital of
the United States will be Aurora-in-the
Ozarks. and that shift, 1t is generally
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