Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-12
PENALTY OF HAVING
AN EQUINE NAMESAKE

Harry New signalized the beginning Of
his three-year-old, form by jumping out
and tow-ropfng everything with hoofs in
the handicap division on the western tracks.
he won several rafting western handi-
caps with 10 and 20 to / against him, but
the Indianapolis mans troubles weren't
over then by long shot. He had never
Oct nickel on horse race in his life but
as soon as Harry New began to annex
races at long odds 1t began to be waited
all over the state of Indiana and the middle
west that Harry New of Indianapolis was
cleaning up about a million dollars every
ume the horse Harry New started and
won Then the grafters and the smoothies
who wanted him to invest in TURQUOISE
mines In Montana and things began to lie
In wait for Mr.. Harry New in alleys and
haIlways and spring upon him whenever he
Ventured out of his house or his office and
MS mall got to be bigger than A Car
| negies. Every day several hundred per-
sons scattered all over the western hemi-
sphere sat down and wrote letters to H.
New or Indianapolis, requesting him to
lend them $500 for just little while as
| they desired to have their small sisters in
structed in the Spanish language and had
no means of their own wherewith to
crafty this laudable ambition. Philan-
thropists by proxy from all over North
America began to make pilgrimages to In
annapolis to request the successful race
track plunser. Harry New to chip in
toward the erection of homes for the aged
orphan asylums and similar institutions
II became so strong finally that Mr. New
and his side partner. Joe Tanning the
state auditor of Indiana, framed up a
1ackrabbit hunting expedition ont in the
Idaho to Indiana a couple of months later
ed to give his office assistants a chance to
Durn up seven or eight tons of mail while
ne WASH looking. On his way back from
Idaho TO Indiana a couple of months later
MT. New and his friend Tanning dropped
OH IN chicago, and some friend there
GRABBED Them on for an afternoon at the
reached the track the Chicago friend told
MT. New that the horse Harry New was
gong TO run In the main handicap that
aIterhoon. The indianapolis man would
lever nave visited the track had he known
.fat, but 1t was too late for him to turn
pack; mere were twenty thousand people
at Washington Park that day, and the
tbo, t SLoiehiy spread among the whole gang
Ia INC man a1ter whom the horse Harry
Ne" was named was on the grounds They
an TOOK 1t as the biggest kind of a bunch
ana when the books offered 5 to / at the
t tpeming against Harry New they slaugh-
seieu the states in their wildness to get
gown. Most of the books rubbed Harry
New name entirely, taking the buncb
themselves ie h"hch
Up in the stand Mr. New and b;s fr,.,a
RAINING were wholly unaware of what was
gong on In the betting ring Said Mr. Neu
handicap began: e vi the
M. Joe; I'm not betting man; you know
mat But, Jinks, this measly race horse
.nat pears my name has given me the repu-
.atloh OF being one without my ever get
llng the price of pinwheel out of him I
might as well be strung up for a dog as
LOT sheep, and I'm going to bet a hum
dred on my four-hoofed namesake right
now Aie't
Mr. RAINING, who had never bet on tho
Harry New horse either thought that was
good enough for him, and he said that he'd
go hundred himself. He scrambled down
TO the betting ring and got the 500 down
al to l. Two minutes later it was all
over the place that Mr.. News betting
commissioner was going up and down the
pookies line, soaking a thousand at a clip
on the Harry New horse and then men in
the betting ring began to fight and gnaw on
each other to get their change down on the
Harry New animal. There was nothing on
tap against the horse when the field lined
up at the barrier and the 10000 folks ON
the grounds figured that Harry New was
as good as in. his number hanging out, and
the cashiers dishing out the duff
Harry New finished bum last After
the race one of the track officials SNUG
gled Mr.. New and his friend Tanning into
the secretary's office and entertained them
there for couple of hours. The track Of
hcial was cautious man, and he didn't
want to take chance on having the In
dianapolis man and his companion mobbed
on their way from the track by the riotous
bunch players who had stood the tap on
Harry New.