The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-28
GOOD THINGS YOU JUST MISS
SPRTNTS FOR THE BOOKIES THAT
SOME HOw TURN OUT BAD.

Either You Get the Ssaxum Down and tho
skate Trails tine bunch or You Make
the stage After the curtain Bs Down
May dset I'm wrong ON the Name.
The big win tanners didn't nave much
TO say about Il when Kid Mccoy. after
getting pinched the other day for over
speeding his ohug chariot TO the track
TO get a bet down on a good thing In the
first race, finally made the betting ring
by a nose In time TO send his heap change
along on the nice article. only TO see IL
clomp homs along about the time the lew
drops were falling. sweet Irene" said a
ring Pinkerton who has lone duty On a lot
Of the tracks. Fast and West.
you'll nave taken notice that in the
gnome narratives whenever the deep boy
with the ~ 10 1 thing hidden under one Of
his cuffs has all kinds Of obstacles 20 sur
mount and hurdles TO take while he ssreaks
TO the track TO get the carrots down he
invariably %oatapults through the gate Just
In time TO heave his currency at the first
chalker he sees in the line, just as the one
he's played beats the barrier by nine and
three-quarter lengths. and then that flag
beaten picks his way home In u trudge,
fetching the obstacle just
exactly $29, $50. or some such little gum
money a. that.
-Uh-huh. IL does happen like that
every time the comet Of 1909 falls into the
SIM and gets burned up. and just about
that often. That's a hot combination
IL you'll look IL over. First. the hedge
jumper with the hot one has got to make
the track in time to stun the play-it chit
lings in. Second. when he does make the
ring in the nick Of time the warm one has
got 20 bring the W home to paw
and in a hop dave like this the price mustn't
ever be less thar 40 10 I. Well. figure that
out. II IL doesn't look like an o~ctilion TO
one chance wher you get through scratch
ing paper / never saw a man who'd lost
his hat slam into a betting ring and beg a
pricemsker TO take his money.
Il began TO collect and collate statistics
OF this kind about the time when Parole
was a weanling. and il isn't often hat I've
seen the Lady Fortune waiting at the gate
to dump her ~cornucopia into the out
stretched mitts Of the hurry UP boys. In
fact I've noticed that most Of them get
whipsawed when they get mixed up with
this hasty stuff.
Whitley Langdon. no less. came pulling up
at the Sheepshead Bay gate in a honk wagon
with two busted tires an eighth Of a minute.
OF about that. before the first race was
due one day last year. He'd travelled
down 30 fast from Long Island City that the
two front tires wouldn't stand for il. and 80
they belched. but Whitley. who was driving.
kept right ahead. and he got to the gate
lust about the minute when Cassidy was
ha oLtny a,xAara lila Nlllar and Radtka
back TO the webbing before pressing the
bulb. Whitley leaped through the air out
OF his buzz buggy like a Lascar pirate
jumping from the foreyard into the bullion
hatch Whitley "a the warm one in that
first race and he was going to slip In his
everybody he met between the motor car
enclosure and Soils stool.
He was blowing like a stranded dogfish
on the Guinea coast and the sweat was
standing out, on his forehead like candle
drippipgs when he finally cantered up
to a bunch Of the chalkers and shouted out
the name OF what he wanted, holding mp
his lunch hooks to indicate h amounts
that he wanted to bet on his tidy one. The
sheet writer's got the bets registered just
IA Cassidy let out his Come on howl, and
Whitley stood to win S87, 600 ye-ehl He's
standing 10 win il yet, but o can stand
for a long while on these merry go rounds
and still nobodyll teter along and put
something in your hand. The one that
Whitley had put up that Marathon race
for ran like a hunk Of Neufchatel that's
been left out on the back porch and been
rained on. and in additional 20 that Whitley
had so overexerted himself on the hot
afternoon that he'd been overcome with
TO work over him in a shed for a couple
OF hours TO keep Whitley from running
around like a pinwheel.
Just four days later Whitley Langdon
heard about something else in town just In
time 10 start for the track a little bit too
late for the first sprint. He had TO crawl
and deposit collateral with nine bicycle
cops at different stages OF the route before
they'd let him continue to spin his gas gig
to the track at the snail's pace OF eighty.
two knots an hour, and yet he couldn't
make IL.
The horses were already going way
from the webbing when he started to make
his run for the gambling per, and then
Whitley leaned against a stanchion and
mopped his map and muttered that he
hoped that, good thing OF his would fall
right down in the stretch with a sprained
ankle.
-But il didn't. II won by as far as from
here 20 Bayonne and there was 80 to 1
against IL at the starting minute, and the
conversation that ensued between Mr.. Lang
don and himself when he say his ripe one
tippitoeing home all alone and him with
nix the price Of a paper OF salt water tafy
on il. was the impolitest monologue I've
bent an ear to for a long stretch. and l
hear a lot OF n man power conversation
around these works at that, That's how
Whitley Langdon got il where Tusitala
wore the tigers teeth. coming and going
on that hurry up thing. all In the space Of
unar week, and that's the kind OF q break.
IL you're taking il from me. a good ninety
nine out OF a hundred OF the boys who Q
it from the gate &c the ring get. II they win
their sprint and get tho spinach down. tho
thing they've worked 80 hard to play runs
like a lumberjack cook with -four pairs of
pantaloons on. II they lost on their hop
from the gate to the chalkers' ave. the
thing they'v done the scrambling TO bet on
comes dancing down 90 the a all by him
self. like a Mindanao Moro with a bolo in
his teeth.
-Clint De Witt. who owned Housatonic,
had the CALLING hurryup experience once
with hat willing old oampaigner. II hap
pened at Roby and on the road TO Roby-
4 was working on that long passed Chicago
track at the time.
-Housatonic had broken down from
overcampaigning and Clint had laid him
up for nearly a year with the idea OF dis
%couraging the pencillers the next time he