The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-07
WIFE SAVED ROLL
Decided Pills Hard Luck Run
Gould Be Stopped By at
Least One Way.

One of the comic reliefs to the hard
money grind OF the betting ring during
the current week was the sensational
elimination of Bookmaker phil"
O'Neil's winter campaign on last Tues
day. O'Neil is a we'll known character
in the professional turf world. When
he Is winner, no more sweet-souled
or wittier Hibernian sails the sea of
life. But when luck does not break
we'll for him the farther away from
him the better for ones own self.
O'Neil was a lion in the field" en-
closure about New York last summer.
He started in on a shoestring and ran
1t into the proverbial tannery. Quit
ting $4,000 winner on the summer
season about New York, he HE'D him
self and booking crew to New Orleans
for the winter racing. Winning
little and losing a little, O'Neil found
himself about 5000 to the good on
the opening days of the Mardi Gras
carnival. Then came Waterloo. Day
after day he lost until $4,000 was
charged to the losing side of his ledg-
er account.
Now comes the ingenious hand of the
woman.
phil, luck is against you and there
Is no use bucking it," declared Mrs.
O'Neil one evening after a particularly
bad day, and as the two were can
wasting the situation as they sat in
the rotunda of the New st. Charles
hotel.
"Now, you mind your business.
Well stick and get out or go broke"
retorted O'Neil. Other words followed
and Mrs. O'Neil retired from the field
Of wordy warfare thinking hard.
The scene shifts and the curtain
rises on the next act. At 10 o'clock
next morning Mrs. O'Neil, always the
banker, is in front of the banking
house wherein the O'Neil funds are
kept. Demanding the entire credit
balance of their account, totaling some
$500, Mrs. O'Neil received the same
and departed. Mindful of a day when
her husband might require spare mon-
ey she left to his credit just 1925
With the money Mrs. O'Neil betook
herself to the railway station, and in
a brief moment she and the family
treasury funds were swiftly beating"
back to New York.
About the noon hour O'Neil was at
the bank as usual for another draw
on the O'Neil joint account Then
came the sad news of the account hav-
ing been closed out an dthe going
away of Mrs. O'Neil. That afternoon
O'Neil came to the trackside without
bank roll. He told his clerks the
true story and they smiled in smur-
ky way. The other bookmakers laugh
ed. O'Neil said, II am not going to
book this afternoon" Then the natu-
raj question was, "Why?" Because
my wife won't let me-" sorely and
very dryly he spread the joke. At
last reports O'Neil's 1925 was fading
away and thought of getting a rail-
way ticket to New York, where a wife,
a home, and the remnants of a shat
tered bank roll awaited him filled his
mind to the exclusion of everything
else. He'll be back on Broadway ere
this reaches the readers eye.
Another amusing episode in the
Bourse has to do with the Rallies
craze. w. X. Carruthers. the New
York newspaper man. brought the
mysterious oneto this city in connec-
ton with circulation scheme of a
local newspaper. Carruthers edver-
tised the fact of the intention of his
protege to visit the betting ring IN
"some day in short while" In some
manner or other the rumor in effect
that he would be In the ring on last
Thursday gained currency. A mob of
people came into the enclosure look
ing for Raffles. Plunger Whitley"
Langdon, who had come through the
Rallies frenzy in New York las year,
informed two of the NETS" that Book
maker Fred Cook had Rallies work
ing among his crew. In ten minutes
a curious mob of 500 men stodd jam
med around the booking stand Of the
Missouri odds purveyor. The more
Cook tried to satll the Rallies hunters
away, the more steadfastly did they
confide in Langdon's tip. At that
Cook got about $1,000 more money to
the last two races of the day than he
would have otherwise. Langdon's
joke was, after all, lucrative, though
embarrassing, in result to Cook. At
night the new 100000 Denechaud
hotel and the st. Charles hotel pad
dock" find hundreds and hundreds Of
Rallies enthusiasts trying to find him
in the hope of getting the $500 re-
ward. Some of them gave up the idea
of locating winners long, long ago.
Reason for Odd Prices.
There's reason for everything"
said the dry goods merchant. There's
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