The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-28

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himself for the benefit Of the holdup q
but he watched hia chance and closed with
the daylight artist and staked him to a
swell waIloping. removing the highway.
him over tho conk with Il for a bit lust by
way Of exercise Then. having cleaned the
gumshosr. Clint @ up his lope trudge
FOR Roby again. All Of this took precious
time. OF course.
whom he ran into a small boy riding an old
Dobbin OF q milk route horse, and Clint
slipped the boy twenty and climbed into the
saddle and began to kick the white plug
out to make Roby for the first race. The
aged white mutt wasn't used to being
Kicked that way. and before he'd carried
Clint three hundred yards he began 10 buck
and rear, and presently he hacked into a
~culvert With himself. Clint inst rolling
OF in time TO sav hts life. Al this stage OF
It Pau Gore. tho Chicago hotel man. 81 ed
along in a trap. and he caught sight Of the
heavy souled Clint and CAV him a ride to
Roby. where he himself was bound
They just got up TO- the gate when 'Hous-
atomic! Housatonic just mazurkas' come
bawling at them out Of the stand, and then
Clint shambled into the ring and found that
his aged patchup that had won with his
head up In the air like a royal marine waiting
In line 20 get the V. G. pinned on him had
opened at 100 to l.. and had been clawed
down TO Q TO 1 at post time by Clint friends,
whom he had let In on the tip with the re-
quest that they stay on till the betting had
been in progress for ten minutes or 30.
THAT evening l saw De Witt sadly
scratching his head in the lobby OF his
evening papers how he had won q hundred
thousand bucks. or some such foolish tribe,
on his grand old horse Housatonic, and
hence his melancholy. Four days latet
Clint slept at Roby all night so an to be sure
to be on hand to bet on another good thing
in his barn Terrier. l think the horse was
that he was going to start with a certainty
of a fine price. He got IS. 600 down on that
one at an average OF 10 TO- l. but u bolted
into the Outside fence At the hfting OF the
barrier and broke nine or ten bones. and
that's how much his slumberings at the
track. SOS to he sure to be on hand. got him.
That was some obtaining II both ends from
the middle, but IL was only Of q piece with
nearly all Of his hurry up stuff;
-Wallie Fessenden once had the GRIEF OF
beating a swell thing as far as the long run
from the gate to the ring was concerned,
and still he got in wrong. The break went
against him beoause Wallie wRs kind o
careless on the p~ronouncing thing in those
day. gS.rt.,. ,omna,, i, III. first race wa. a
curd by the name Of Toupee. Toupee
was one Of those that'd run like Hindoo
Yesterday and like something httcbed with
a plough plug to-day. but the folks behind
i had II keyed SS 70 sort,ss IN ., y, m seven eInsl
IIHIb NIIAt IN duh NIL "e' hh Bl~
kovitch. The folks looked for anything
up to half a hundred TO one by way or a price,
but Wallie was overinterested in o pinocble
game at track starting time, and 80 when
he got to Long Island City the first train
had gone and the second wouldn't creep
him there in time for the first race. In which
Toupee was to 20. SO Wallie chartered
a gas wagon and raced for the gate. He
made il. He was just in the nick OF time
TO get In bad.
Toupee. and all u~nbeknownst to F~essenden,
there was q crab by the name bf Teepee.
Wallie had never heard OF that one. IL
was all Toupee for him. and nothing else
mattered. But before he cantered through
the gate and into the ring the chalkers had
been having their bothers owing to the
similarity in the names OF the two horses,
Toupee and Teepee. They'd have to ask
every fellow who wanted to play one or
other of them whether he wanted the plug
T-o-u-pee, and even when the race was all
over and the cashing going on there was an
immense amount OF wrangling Tor Cava-
nagh TO s%traighten out. .
We'll, MaIiie. as I say. had never heard
of the Ieepee skate had skipped the name
Of that one in going over the entries, and IL
was Teepee's first out in the East.
-TOupee was at NJ to 1 when Fessenden
arrived and Teepee stood at the same
figure. Both horses were looked upon as
buns and none Of the chalkers gave either
one Of them a look in.
Gimme T'pee!' bawled Wallie. cata-
putting up to the first bookie on the line
and hold up the number Of fingers he wanted
TO bet In hundreds.
Which one, T-o-u-or T-double-e-pee,
Waller the chalker asked him.
"'T'pee, T~'pee-the one they're betting
on-dig the oyster shells u Of FOUR ear
and vou'll heart Rrunted Wallie as he gal
umphsd down the bookies' line. Well, the
one they were betting pm all over the ring.
knocking the price 20 nothing, was Teepee,
and that's the way the first bookie registered
the bet. 'T'pee, that one they're betting
on is the reply that Wallie gave TO all OF the
layers on the hne whom they put the ques-
ton to him as 10 which OF the two similarly
named horses he wanted, and every man
jack Of the h makers got him down for
.foupee won on the bit, and Wallie. with
the wide grin chart. started in TO collect.
TO And that he wasn't there. There was
all kinds Of a Robbery, but the dead wood
pencillers that he wanted the n they
were all betting on. and that one was
Teepee, whereas Toupee's price had sailed
TO as high as rs 70 I in soc books. with
hardly anybody buying Toupee even in
small lots. That's the way Cavanaugh
decided il when IL came up to him. No, l
suppose that Mister Fessenden, the ex-
umpire. was not chagrined, or anything
like that. And you ought to hear him
%onoun Q horses name nowadays when
he makes a bet. You ought to've heard
put that one over q while later with BOO 10
/ about il When he got the Pass Book
bets down he was a human calliope. and ]
don't blame him."