The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-05

quence anywhere in tho number, since
that fool '23' gag zcphyIed along. 1t
doesn't make any ditfo ence If it's l2,345.
or l.238. O. 1918. o. 23,45f, the anti-23
thing toye.hn' and hal the badge back
with a gro lchy VOID o. two when it. Is
slipped to th,m.
Eve always ~ to obligs them, but there
are whole punches Of badges tn t have
this combination on them-the whole thou
sand ofthe %, 900 number en- the big, bumper
days and the badge seller who catches these
has his hands iull explaining to the agin-
rs bugs that he ha MT got anything else
in stock to ha nd en-.
1.-THE fellows who look upon Is as a lucky
number have TAR outrumbered the anti
10 chaps during the last five years or 80,
and most fell rvs who got the badges be-
ginning with 10 grin over what they regard
as a good omen. But We never seen this
Is bunch get anybody anything, although
Mikes owner.
Il once sold a badge numbered sob
thus beginning and ending with the queer
number on the thir, zenith day Ct the month
and also tie Il irttrth CT" tf lie ntei-
ing, on a Friday, to a man who had been
born on the thirteenth Of the month, also on
a. Friday, and had thirteen letters in his
name. This seemed like a SURE enough
bunch for him to fall for all the horses on
the programme bered %, ard he did.
His nudge system not only d d 1T get him
anything in a solitary race. but y the way
out Of the track he got into a fight with a
man who stepped on his corns, made a pass
at him and got pu ched all to pieces and
bargain. | saw him a few days later with
his head wrapped up in bandages.
Mice line o stuff, that ID pileup OF
yours, isn't it?' l was ornery enough to
ask HIM,
hn wao of in RI tETnW n rock at me.
4One day when l caught one Of the fret
patches Ct badges to be dished out to the
sellers, | tickled a confident looking little
man nightly by selling him the pat number
EWell, Iguess that isn't a nudge or nothin','
he s il, gazing with big, happy lamps at
the 1000 number. Why, that's just the
piece O. chan G that / came down to win
to-day-sl 900, Need just that much to pay
off a note, Amt any way in the world th.tI
me wearing that stuily look when l come out
you'll know that | got the action l was look
ing for on this p~astebcard.'
Tint i'm on the in tr n
'Did that 1000 badge do you any goodf
"Ye-eh-it did me good, all right he re-
piled mournfully, pulling the 200 badge
out Of his buttonhole and tearing 1t into
little pieces and throwing the pieces in the
car aisle and stamping on them.
There was a little more sense behind the
bug of a fellow who, because he did well with
a certain number-it happened to be 10000,
although that fact ism I important-one day,
vent after the same number the next day,
while the good streak lasted; and it did last
for a week, though Of course the number
had nothing to do with that.
Three summers ago a Western chap who
visited the races for three days got from
me, by sheer accident, three days running,
A. ~ ,,p,haroI haAuo-if UNA q 1cA To
you figure that dow you'll see that 1t was
about a billion to one chance, and probably
worse than that, for the badge sellers gen.
orally get hold OF different sets Of thousands
every day. The Western man had whop-
ping luck with his three badges, too.
Zone OF these vairy, vairy smart women
who g to the tracks every day was real
sorry she'd git humorous about the number
on the lady's ticket l sold her on the out
going train one wet autumn afternoon five
or six years ago.
"The number on the lady g ticket / handed
her was 2,222, and she passed 1t back TO me
with one Of those clever remarks.
"'oh, that ones too ~dreadfully too-too,'
she said. Let me have one that is less
monotonous at the beginning and end and
In the middle
$50 l handed her a lady's ticket from the
bottom OF my pack n passed on.
THE woman to whom sold the 2,222
ticket a minute or 30 later didn't do a thing
straight winners, upon one OF which. the
joke mare. Nav j., she had a little strsight
bet Of $40 at 500 to l.. The newspa pers ell
had the story Of her big cleanup, and all OF
them published the mum Der Of her ticket, as
the figures, were a bit unusual.
lucky ticket on the following afternoon
She was q sad looking skirted party, bat
she wasn't too sad to deliberately stick out
her tongue atm