The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-08-02
SOME RACING R

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afternoon. Then he broke out of hi.
otilce at a canter, making for the New
York avenue surface line of cars, Ben.
ntng-bound.
lie wasn't SO eager to make thu
track in time for the first race;
oclock-On his own account But he
had a $40 note, belonging to a friend
in his clothes, to be wagered on Win
chester in the first race.
lie was considerably worried, how
ever, when, on boarding the New York
avenue car at Fourteenth street, he fig
ured that, with the clearest right of
way and the best going, the car would
only just about make Benning in time
for the first race.
The car hustled along at a nretty
good clip till the bridge ovcr the East
ern branch was reached Then the
cars tuSe or heW-gag, or something or
other, burned out, and it came to a
standstlll. 1t was then eight minutes
10 5. The young man with the $40 note
TO go on Winchester for a friend broke
OUT IN a cold perSpiration. There was
no chanCe for the car to reach the Ben
nlng gate in time for any of it's pas
sengers to play the first race. Sup
posing Winchester were to win at 90
or 81 to l or some such foolish igureI
he was in a sad fume over the situa-
ton, when, to the real of the car, he
heard the notes of a three-strap auto
mobile siren. The young man leaped
out or the stalled car. ran over to the
middle OF the Dad and waved his arms
wildly directly in the path of the an.
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. Il can't give
you a lft-Wagon's packed full now"
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 it on Win
chester in he first race for me. Money
belongs to a friend of mine, and the
blamed Winchester horse is liable to
n cut me out of a ummer vaca-
ton if don't get the 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
road had finished his explanation.
When the young man with the quick
thinking habit got to the entrance the
owner Of the automobile was waiting
tor him at the turnstile. He had $40
in his hand.
Il got the bet down. he said, Gust
as the NUTS were lined up to break.
Winchester wins, and I got 10 to l."
itS.i olASS yoOlil y SLluGll impulse
TO jump from the stalled car and stop
the automobile had been worth Just
800 to him.
AS to that same Winchester race.
George Sheridan, a well known follow
ar of the game from Chicago, and a
bettor when he thinks he is in
good, had a dry remark to make when
he numbers went up. Sheridan had
gone to- some other horse in the race
n tho ,,po @f nONn WI -.
inished in the van, ''breezing," Sheri-
who vas standing just behind the
oress box, damned his hat over his
yes, thrust his hands into his pockets
observed grouchily:
Winchester, hey? And Sheridan
wenty miles away!"
The sad story attaching to almost
very case wherein one man bets an
'ther mans money at a race track
lad it's ten-millionth ex~emplification In
rae which Fla won, with as good
Is 10 to 1 against him,
A Pennsylvania avenue restaurateur
Who went to the track by the steam
'ars On hat day was held up by a
riend at the station. The friend
couldn't get away from his business to
80 to the track that day, it seemed,
)ut he had a tip on Fiat n wanted tC !
500 down. Would his friend, the
'e~staurateur take the $50 and play
Fiat straight for him? The restaurant !
,idents in connection with proxy bet
ing and having a keen sense of his own
Observation-Disclosures besides,
ried to duck, but he couldn't get out
If it. His friend was insistent, and
80 the restaurant man took the $40 and
to get it down on Fiat in the
asst race.
By the time he reached the track the
lbsent-minded reStaurateur had clean
'orgotten al about that $40 Fiat money
o be put down for his friend. He
iidn't, in fact, stay at the track for the
race at all. He cleaned up about
10 up to and including the fifth race,
then he concluded that he'd got
LII that ought to be coming to him for
me day, and started to town in an
electric car. On the way in he began
Q figure UP his bank roll, checking off
lis bets and winnings. He found that
was $40 ahead of the balance figures,
Ind he was very gloatful, indeed.
Wei, this said he to himself, SIS
first time I ever got ahead OF a
oookmal5er or a bookmaker's crew. One
IF those cashiers must have given me
30 too much in settling one Of my bets.
Fine! | suppose I'll spend the whole
lay tomorrow looking up that cashier
etAN - 10 AAA1 DoSn ~ SGU he SdVG
by m~istake-yes. yes" and he con-
to gloat Ilost cheerfully all the
way back to town in the electric car.
He met the man who had given him
The $40 Fiat money when he got off the
EAR to change for his restaurant at the
station. The Fiat man began
% execute difficult and involved iip
steps as soon as he saw the restaura.
-eur.e
Vow! I guess Tn the poor horse
picker, amt II" he gurgled to the res
taurateur. Tn a perfect shine at this
hing of lighting on the long ones. amt
Just. telephoned to the track and
out that little old Fiat copsl,ies
at 10 toll. Wow! Gimme my 1920. did
nan-and much obliged to you for get
ing it down."
The restaurateur had remembered. of
curse, long before his gurgly friend
lad concluded lis happy little specie
without > word, he went into his
iungarees and dug UP the $500. But
me next time he let's any friend hold
aim up at a race track the capital Of |
ne United States will he Aurora-in-the. |
3zarks, n that shift, it is generaIIv
The future. ~
Equally sad, as the result OF his ar
aandedness, was a young gentleman
from BaltimOra who opa 49,, 80,