Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-12
Tim Hurst's Experience.

Tim Hurst the base ball umpire and
pugilistic referee. wasn't wise thurman
when he first began. nor. in fact did ne
pick up wisdom until he had been flshtihs
the old running game for a good many
wears One OF the things that served 10
teach him wisdom was the fact thtat a TWO
year-old was named after him. inns was
three wears ago. The colt faced the par
rler for the first time at the ASCOT TRACK
in Los Angeles Tim was IN New 10TH
at the time, and he was highly sWeiie9
when he heard that promising con Hau
been named for him. So when on the uay
tba colt Tim Hurst first went to the post
Tim received a wire from the owner urg
ing him to unbelt on the equine Inn, the
noted referee and umpire made d s"oop
unon the New York pool rooms that en-
danpered the lives of the other men VINO
were trying to make their way up 10 the
ticket-writng counters ,,..
In the Los Angeles race the hurst
,,n,rester ran green and finished. according
10 the mad wags. on the following Ihurs-
day week. ,o1o
gram TO his friend. the owner Of the coit.
wbicb the telegraph company refused 10
transmit unless certain passages were
edited or deleted. Among other neduN
things the telegram stated that II .he
colts name wasn't instantly changed MI.
Hurst would have a squad of his High
binder friends from the Chinese district OF
San Francisco run down 10 LOS Ans 81,
TO see about 1t. and he made 1t plain that
the Highbinders would have their halehe's
with them when hey started.
A week later Mr. Hurst got announcer wiz
from Los Angeles about the Tim hurst
colt. ,,. ON
him today" the message read. His num-
her is as good as hung out lhe9 re
paying OFF on him already. .
Mr.. Hurst CRASHED and gritted ms teeth'
seized his hat and hustled out to the hlgh-
WAYS and byways to bet every trlenu ne
met that the colt Tim Hurst wouldnt De
among the first three In MS race; me NE
friend. ate up the price he onereu, ahu
then the umpire sat near ticker, Gaining
himself shine and a bunco man TOT
chIseling his friends out of their good
coin. 100000,
The Tim Hurst colt won in a common
frudRe For long months after that ex-
perience Mr. Hurst was unable TO proJect
his frame into any place In New YORK
without being greeted with unnoiy oerisioh
and horrihc boots.
to name a two-year-old after me-, said
Fred Miller the Washington trainer, when
the horse buzz drifted around 10 thls topic.
at told him that II he did 1 knew or a
Mace where ground glass was sold in bulk
and that his two-year-old would stand to
partake of the cutest glass masn mixed
with bran that ever caused a colt 10 lie
down In his stall and forget to get up any
more That nudged him out of the notion.
$50 he named the colt after a bookmaker
operating on the Chicago tracks Six
months later the bookmaker with the colt
named after him was wearing wire In his
shoes In place OF shoestrings and making
1O.cent parlay bets with coon handbook
men outside the gates. He had been put TO
the mat for more than the full count by the
hoodoo Of having a race horse named after
him. That hoodoo doesn't IKE other moo
docs, work every time, but It's there with
its Jonah paint on in nine cases out OF
ten