The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-19
BY DEXTER MARSHALL

There are spcndthrifts today NJ and
there are piungers to-day, but III It
/ does seem 10 the oid-tiner that they
II are not To be classed Wit, some OF those
whose money btrrinss and plurglngs Used
"a ~ occupy most space Il, the newspapers
hitncy' Long dom who, after q dozen
n years 81 bad luck, .'tron q fortune n, q
il minute lost II, but got It back. again
II last year ut Belmont Park; h \ B OBJ Da-l
4 Wis and Frank England, @ who started
II with nickels and won d hundred thousand
n h 1906 {; 'Davy'. y Johnson. who only recent
i. went d broke again--t these are all
plungers OF sufficient Importance to ware
" rant being mentioned II other parts OF
4 the paper than the sporting page every
once In q while. Aud there arc nm w y
Gates md his partner. John A. Drake.
I and, until he was killed In the English
railway wreck at Salisbury. there was was
Jack Mcdonald, y who was said to have We
Il lest 800, 900 before sailing on tho trip that
4 cost him his y life. But where are the
y ii. II. Dryers. the tttsburg Phils,""
q the RI Plunger''s waitons and tho ley
Grannans? Not TO DO found on tho turf
4 to-day. Fl III sf8 l Il X IA 81 85
PIttsburg Phil died last year. Riley
Grammar Is rarely heard Of now. neither
4. IL ,.Plungcr' Walton. Dryer. a paraly-
Il SIC viii never get on his feet again. Each
Of these men differed markedly from all
the others, yet they all had something
X which the plungers OF h to-day do not
a seem to possess and thoir likes viii not
& d seen again. III D, 335s
d Their " Killing Nerve.
SS6f4 All race track plungers have one char
u acterlsuc in common; the sort Of nerve
4 that enables them TO bear defeat and ac-
cept the gifts OF good 4 and bad fortune
4 With equal impertur bility, neither
n scowllng when tho ates? arc against them.
4 nor Jumping about and shouting for Joy.
81 when things are coming their; way. v An
sss} III Michael +. Dwyer's palmy q ass his
4 friends used TO tell him that ho would
4 surely pay for his continuous smile, which
II changed not whether he won or lost;
that unless he gave way to his emotions
occasionally his nervous system would
q break down ultimately under the strain.
SSi,,.,en /" Pittsburg Phi" George r. Smith
- first found 1t necessary to seek medl-
/ cal aid his physician told him he was In
Z bad way. and would die unless re-
d lleYed. Is ~ 553 35S5
But said the professional man. mo
one can help you but yourself. And the
d. only thing you can do IS to stop your
continual self -repr ession. Wave your
Y arms and shout once In a while when you
& win a pot OF money. Say things out
loud when you lose. Let yourself so
and you'll get WE'LL Y 50 n,
sB Neither Dwyer nor Smith needed the adj
vice that was offered to them. Smith
lasted a short time only. q fter discarding
the advice to .'be5 natural, & and Dryer Is
tout OF IT., for all time. Riley Grammar
was like Dryer and Smith In imperturb-s
ability. and he, too. broke down, though
possibly not from the same cause. None
\ OF the three was ever q disslpated man.;
sGrahnan and SmithErefrainedf from using
tobacco as we'll as drink. "a
& I would be hard to say which Of these
three men was most picturesque. More
money passed through Dwyer's hands In
sthe form OF winnings and losings than
has passed through tho hands y OF any
other betting man in the history OF the
4 American turf II has been estimated that
the aggrega to was not less than 40 900, 0o0
n, the twenty-scyen or enty-elght years
that lie was prominent racing figure
Many Of his methods were essentially diff