The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-16
|ffIANDER ISLAND
|0LO RACING CENTER
,.raus in Turf History Will
8 Recall Many Incidents
Pulled OFF There.
neMER BOKMAKER
GETS DOUBLE-CR0SSED
L,aed Out a Sure Thing Pro-
POSITION by a Personal
Ii Friend"

M oe the quiet downtown rumorf-
I haven't been out to the track.
D, sry TO beat 'em. / couldn't beat
urpet with clothesline prop, l
0n.s beat an egg with two dozen Of
patent things from the ten-ccnt
Facs is, never tried to beat
rsver played 'em from the ground,
[Ia But l did make book once for
StIs stretch and tried to beat 'em
behind the bulwarks. Ye-eh. / OBJ
"a mine. And IN a heap. But It
I'D cute lesson for me. | learned
4 about how not to banker TO get
Amt quick in that brief space OF
n, }han / could ever talk Into two
e az monograph records,
.|.9, VAS at old Alexander Island that
nm1ilcd and collated my little pony
q for the brief period Of time. Alex
Isr island. at the yon end of the sag
y la Iongbridge-I noticed, In going
~ ia Alexander island the other day
/-.fhey've ploughed Alexander island
II rorn planting There's many a
N now shopping sorrowfully around
.shinoton who probably wishes,
49,
"A ploughed Alexander island for
"a planting long before they ever
.de II Into a race track. and kept 1t
crops right along They're the
hoU-a-heap WnshingtonIans who. like
kyself went on the block over there
IA made book for little spaces Of
'},me during the Alexander Island
meetings. Most OF 'em have been
1rnokIne bay in punkerlno pipes ever
,<Ince: and could name you mighty
kr OF them who've ever regained
heir financial pedals
InAs I say, even UP to the time of the
II4xarder Island game I'd never played
~. That's where the strap rubs II
Id 8cne the ordinary oonehead trick of
k!ne against them with the Idea of
EatIng 'em from the ground II 'ud have
Lar different, and thered have been
\ fenulne crouch accruing to me. But
| Fas one Of those dead wise ones,
"a, Me to sit In the sheltered betting
In perch and Just take the lobster
1Iu Me TO lay again 'em, instead OF
lying 'em. And when | thought l
10 Just the foxiest ever ] was one OF
puttiest marks that ever got bent
I'd the shape Of a horsecake and then
ID on the penny counter for sale TO
q first conner.
Bold Out to Set Up Book.
IYe-eh. sold out one of the cunninest
fe mills within the confines OF the
Strict Of Columbia so that / could go
the block over the way at Alexander
and and quickly accrue unto myself
LII - he
lfeau OF engraving and printing.
s cleaning up between $4,000 and $4,000
year dispensing hooters In fagons to
select trade. but l didn't think l was
!lng enough action. l wanted Rock
|eller results right away. So, me for
-t block at Alexander island.
| 4 didn't have any trouble getting a
'and over there at the old island
|Fack, and l hired a sheet writer who
rald build up, theoretically. the love-
PSI lbs per cent book you ever ran an
nc over. The joke of II was that l be-
~ TO annex the velvet from the gee
as eit-u2 at the rate, net, of about
- per diem. 1t was me for the round
'oolsky. complied and collated on con-
=I'ailve business principles. Ye-eh,
AZ lfst that Is to say.
Al the end OF a couple of weeks d
~ kpow that l was about $1,000 to the
Hfl honest was. And, even laying
esalnN that raw Alexander island
kane-and at Alexander island your
'fcsonest pal I'D hit you behind the ear
lha hunk OF sink-pipe for 81 note
~ tnen arrange to sell your cadaver
medical college for an additional
cthts-I could have gone right or
'king up the conservative change
wei. at the beginning OF my third
sek on the Alexander island high
'sl an owner who had a pretty nifty
q sprinters pulling down the purses
sn good deal of regularity over
sTe began to stake me to the hail.
now how'd ye-do thing. was z
pole lot fattered by this, for thl,
'ner was sure-enough chile cor
ne In the wisdom line Over
N me island, We became, oh, sucl
amees, We fell into tho habit OF ta'
as,dinncr together In town after the
.Ht racing, and he sure did put m'
TX % a lot OF the inside points Of tn,
game.
The Tempter.
Vne night, after we'd reached tn,
aee and smoke end of the dinner, n
Aso me over real carefully, and saiC
spose you've noticed that I've go
~ old six-furlonger of mine In to
|ofrow agaln7
ILL iep.' said l. I s'pose they'll be lay
scout to 10 against him. He can
~ he falls down four times, hey2'
Lant he| said my owner friend
ssme his lamps glued on me prett.
u Ny boy, can't Is a great bij
4nsy WORD In this gee-gee business
cam l never knew either cant
al 70 make good in racing
nun? said !, getting next In
sus Kind of a way. Go ahead. II yo
a.ato. .s 70. Break 1t to me gently
On. there isn't much to It. said m
80 friend, settling back comfortabl
il as chair, except that that old plu
lalne isn't going TO cop tomorrow
just won't know how TO win tomor
~. He won't know the right wa
thl the numbers are sorted on
merely passing this to you for you
.Hnation, and because | want you [
,hina oit OF laying for me, II you don
mat cure, said l. You Just want t
Ina good TO yourself for not gettin
FTayurse Is that It?
9mx Sn-nuh. that's IT, he replied. Nov
M, ! naturally be about a Ito
souss ano The others Will be at write
= figures. Here's q thou
2fFon, ana ne stripped off two $500 bill
tfalo Nv ."ad big enough 10 choke a but
fthr bsut bsast you give the suckers a shad
fpat 81 OF The odds and draw In up I
thousand for me. Will your It