The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-02

eat the first ~prioe-t1l be chopped to a
frankfurter price before the field lines up.
THEY'RE going to cut the old prize package
loose, n their junk Ia down In al Of the
Chicago and Covington rooms. This is
something 1 know. Take IL from me. IT'S
a deep dish cranberry tart and it's In and
THAT, Of course, put me on the limb,
for I figured that my recall telegram on
Tsay,' / howied at the trainer so that he
wouldn'E hang up the receiver before I
could get 1t to him, I've stayed OF, but l
want you to stick a couple Of hundred on
The Huguenot to cop for me, will your
Two hundred2' the raine replied, and
I could hear him laugh. Say, pal, IL | saw
two hundred bucks walking across the
infield they'd have to carry me to the BOBBY
hatch-I'd be gibbering. You know I'm
cleaned, and about nine OF the layers have
bought pieces Of gaspipe to welt me with
the first time they see me because I'm into
them on digit bets
81 wanted to tell him then TO hunt up a
club commissioner whom l knew and get
the bet down with him in my name, but the
phone ne, began to sursle just then' and l
so ! hoped into a cab and got myself
ambled around to a room where my map
was known. l got there just in time to
see five or six cops smashing in the front
door with axes.
Il still had about t~hree-ouarters of an
hour before The Huguenot race, and so 1
took a chance that d second wire might reach
my man at the track. 1 wired him to dis
regard my first telegram n to push through
The Huguenot bet as per original instruo-
tons.
'As l came away from the telegraph office
! ran into Q handbook man I knew, and. II
thought I'd cinoh the thing and be cure of
having a piece on The Huguenot.
II think Ill twist of a splinter or two
on that old case OF burning feet, The Hugue-
not l told him. Let's have about a hum
dred on it, and me for the beginning price,
and tried to slip him the money.
Behave that, you'll said the handbook
man, backing away. What time did you
get out Of bedl Don't you know that
ever. handbook In NeE York is 80 loaded
up with the junk on The Huguenot that
II the old pieoe Of glue cops we'll have to
enlist In the Marine Corps in the morning
TO get under covert I've got hardly any,
thing else on my sheet, and I'm not selling
another nickels worth Of It,
Before he'd finished l was In q cab and
on my way to q downtown room where l
knew ! could get action. The prices were
up for The Huguenot race when / painted in
there, and The H~uguenot's chalk was 80
to I.
That cooled me out real quick.
no lAfumY JnlQRt on, ana W 10 i on
the second line Of bettingI' l had to say to
myself. I can see those bullseye makers
down yonder in the Gravesend ring letting
hat price get by them IL there happened to
be anything In the world doing on The
Huguenot to-day, and
There they go at Gravesend, suns out
the man getting the results at the phone
just then, and 1t was one Of those process
sional calloffs from the quarter to the finish,
and The Huguenot out in front In the place
Of the grand marshal of the parade all h
way finishing there in a romp.
Then, on my way home, l had three ways
Of figuring how l stood as to hat win OF
The Huguenot's 3:
First, that probably my betting man at
the track hadn't received either Of my tele-
grams and that, figuring that The Huguenot
SSS1d Gc sp STJ mot ne n nu, a 3 1p. w StinS would vU Shi
fetch him to my place with a long map
and a sad explanation that evening.
Second, that he had got my first tele-
gram, telling him not to ret the hundred
The H~uguenot, which would make il
ali right for him in clse he had really stuck
the hundred into his kick. On the other
hand, II hs'd bet ths hundred. all he'd have
70 do would be to return me my hundred
and keep ali tn, winnings.
Third, that no had received both Of my
telegrtms. add th.t he had followed tho
instructions in the LIST one. but he would
hive a ohlnoe TO say that he hldn't received
the last telegram and theTefOre-
Il had a headaoho by the tire | got this
far. and I went to my room and threw my
self on tho couch for a nap III order to forget
about the fool afternoon I'd put IN all Over
q little bet, /
at 7 O'Clock my betting man pounded
MY door and banged me awake.
You're the lucky towhead, he grouched
"A he tossed himself iuto a ch cir. When
IN old hamstrung goat like that can go out
md just breeze along IN front Of good horses