The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-07

| CINCINNATI, March 6.-Olive Lo-
gan, the Cincinnati authoress, eollab-
grated with Joe Ullman, the bookmak-
| err in tho making nf hook nf racing
stories a few years ago. She recently
told some friends about the difficulties
she encountered in connection with the
job.
Il had to begin life all over again,
so far as learning the English lam
guage was concerned she said. Il
mean racetrack English. 1t was about
as hard. 1 should imagine, as master
ing Russian. Nevertheless. l was not
in a position to refuse the work. At
that particular time l should have I'M
dertaken to write a treatise in Sans
krit on the hypothesis of the fourth
dimension.
| Mr.. Ullman was to tell me racing
stories and l was to reduce them to
written form. l found Mr.. Ullman to
be very sympathetic and agreeable
man. But when he got on the subject
of racing-wlen he began to tell a
racing story! He might just as well
have been conversing in the Zambesi
language, so far as my understanding
him was concerned.
WELL he ran on at our first work
ing meeting, in describing a race in
which the favorite had been taken care
Of the one, you see, was all rugged
to run for Sweeney
Sweeney l broke in. Sweeney
You haven't mentioned that gentle
! to do with it,?
MIR. Ullman looked puzzled for a
moment. Then he laughed.
That SWEENEY Person Identified.
why he said, Sweeney is the guy,
you know that the lobs and dead ones
trudge for. Just figure of speech,
ma'am, that's all. Sweeney is the--er
well, you can put it another way.
run for the end book, and
1.-The end book? l had to ask him.
Do you mean that some bOOkmaKer
had an interest in the horses non-suc-
cess and that
We'll, you can see how hopeless
| was Mr.. Ullman finally got that knot
united for me, but that was only the
| beginning. He was untying knots of
the same kind and worse, for me
throughout all of our sessions.
well he would say, and l trying
desperately to follow him. the boy just
picked the horse up and put him in
his lap and kept him there
That seemed an astonishing per-
Torrance on the part of a jockey. and
seemed to demand an explanation.
"'Only a littl way of saying Mr..
Ullman explained when l broke in upon
him that the horse was under wraps
and won off by himself, without the
kid even hand-riding him.
Another time, Well said Mr.. Ull-
man. the boy got off that horses back
and peddled matches and gum. and
still he won by as far as from here to
Los Angeles and back
That was puzZler, too.
Ibid the jockey really d1smount
during the race?' l asked the book
maker. The horse must have been an
extraordinary speedy animal to catch
up after being delayed that way and
Of course my collaborater had a very
legitimate laugh at my expense then.
And them, said Mr. Ullman at
another time. this mutt, that all hands
thought was bound for the glue works
dropped out of the clouds, nailed the
rear end taggers in four jumps, climb
ed over horses. hung seven or eight of
| EN- on the fence, jammed his way
through hole the size of a dolls
thimble, caught the sooner counterfeit
that was fizgigging out in the front
of the sixteenth, and came home with
wet sail. winning on the tapeovitch
by face
IF / remember correctly, it took
Mr.. Ullman exactly rs minutes to I'M
ravel the meaning of that little de-
scriptiOn Of race.
AT another time Mr.. Ullman was
telling me about a crooked piece of
work manipulated by a shady book
maker and the shady booknaker's
brother.
You see,' he said, this sure-thing
layer had a brother who was working
the paddock end. The favOrite figured
lo
ms 'orse, at that.
well, the chalker's brother gets
to the cluck kid-the jock, l mean
who's there with the strong arm, and
slips him a half NJ to attend to the
snatchsky stuff. That's the way it's
fixed
"Well, all the rest of the ringsters