Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-10

the contributions of the bookmakers to
the tracks Golfers, and thai the big stakes
and purses couldn't be offered If ii We're
not for this huge daily source of rev
enue
In the west, where the turf authorities
make no bones about the revenue they
derive from the bookmakers for the book
ing privilege, no such jobs as are easily
got away with here are ever possible The
public is protected.
Out west they won't let bookmakers own
horses any more. either. That's been
a neatly profitable method Of the book
makers around this neck of the woods COR
long. long time. Beautifully easy.
isn't 1t? l own Cabba geOus. VARY well.
Today l. a bookmaker. run Outrageous
Outrageous is a pretty good one, and he's
easily due to beat that gang he's up
against today. The general, public doesn I
know that l am the Hurlyburly Stable"
that's the name under which my horses
are entered So. naturally enough the
betting public. knowing what n really
good one my Outrageous is. just breaks
its ankle bone playing Outrageous today
VIII | lay the top price? VIII l tax all
the mazuma In sight? VIII l see to 1t that
Outrageous gets left a. the post, or
pocketed, or hung on the fence. or shut
off. or that he interferes with some horses
and gets disqualified if he wins, or fix it
up some other old way? / will-that's
the answer to all Of these little queries
And that's the way it has been worked
around here so many times that even the
regulars have lost count of them.
Tom Williams Brusque Way.
In the racing letter in The Sunday Star
last week l called Tom Williams, the
man who's the head and car of the rae
ing game out on the Pacific slope, the
most competent man connected with the
racing business in North America, or
words to that general essence. l repeat
that.
Car he is. but that's all right. too a
car IS needed for this racing thing. I've
seen Tom Williams in the act of handling
the shady, ones. and maybe it isn't the
sight good for weary eyes,
you've got a nice little wad of a
biceps." I once heard Williams say to a
crooked Jockey whom he had summoned
into the stand after pulling a horse-the
horse was two hours the best and came
near winning with all of the seesawing on
his mouth. Fine little Wad Of a biCeps.
in fact" and Williams was talking quiet
ly, although those who knew him could
observe that he was having some Difficult
~ in restraining his anger. Now, you're
only a little wisp of a half-man. but you
know enough to act straight. If you
had acted straight you couldn't have lost
around here. You'd have been taken
care of. AS it is. you going to get
out of San Francisco tonight. Not only
are you ruled off the turf for life. but you
are going to get out of San Francisco.
You are not going to be allowed to live
in San Francisco. In fact. l think you'd
better get out of California. California
doesn't need you. Now, don't think
you'll be alone in this. I know the man
who put you I'D to this job. He, too, is
going to get out of San Francisco tonight.
and he's off the turf for life. too That's
all"
Hard talk Maybe But IT went. And
it served That Jockey was out Of San
Francisco and out of California Wi-n.n
thirty-six hours. So was the trainer who
had corrupted him. And JOCKEY and
trainer are off the turf vt. and they'll
be off the turf as long as Tom Williams
is alive.
ordinations don't scare racing crooks
They've got to be descended upon like
thousand o bricks and eXtirpated like
rattIesnakes in the hills of Jersey. They
Ike advantage of kindly dealing. When
they're offered an inch they grab four
teen miles All of these facts are familiar
facts to T. Williams of California. He
isn't even a believer in the old outwOrn
method of giving crooks enough rope 10
hang themselves with. He doesn't give
them any rope at all. He doesn't want
EN- to hang themselves. He attends to
all that.
But, anyhow. the turf authorities of the
Jockey Club tracks have got busy so
that it looks as if a heap of cleanliness
ought TO peryade the meeting that is pres
antly to be pulled off down yonder at
Deanwood- Beyond the East m Branch.