The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-30

| others, but that's the way Pork Chop al
ways tickleS his. fool baohsrs- laying out
in front like a phony Peter Pan and then
curling up like n o. those old autumn
leaves you Yet fan out OF the red plush
sUh-huh. I see Pork Chop hanging on
In front half way down the stretch, but
the numbers amt hung out for EN- half
way down the stretch-it's up yonder
finish thing M OF. Ye-eh. he's still
in front and going easy at the sixteenth
pole, but look at those two right behind
him-I guess they're not going some.
"Well, yes, the cheap old plug did win,
| qualified FOR something or cther-short
o. weight or something like that-you
can't tell me that I'm going to cash g bet
on an ossihed sausage Ike that Pork Chop
hoss-not much can you'll
Some racegoers when they drop a bet
simply stand stunned wherever they hap
pen to be-stand that way for several
minutes. looking straight ahead or at their
feet, not knowing or caring what 10 going
enough, honest Injun, hard. bitter losers
the fellows who are cut to the heart by
losing. They don't say q word TO any
body, but there's a set. rigid look about
their jaws that tells the story OF the bunch
Of revolving knives that's at work within
sBut the great majority Of fellows who
drop their bets are right there with a whole
coil of remarks to unreel. They generally
nudge in the sarcastic stun.
"'Huh, yes, that one was meant, / guess
grouches one OF this kind. oh, no, he
wasn't just out for an airing-he was
meant
"'I've been swearing for a million years
that I'd never again play a mutt belonging
they eifted it to me that this n vas sure
enough out for 1t to-day, and 30 l fell with
a THUG for a chunk, and look at the run !
"oh, ye-eh, he was meant Ye-eh. they
were just plumb crazy to a the purse
coin on that one. weren't theyi Runs
like a spawned Angora with the epizooty.
and he was meant! They gotta show me
the next time they mean one, that's all!
THE bug with the dark suspicious has
he has sloughed Oh his little bundle on
one Of the non-live ones.
at guess I'm not the pulp nut or nothing
for falling to that one he glooms to the
man he is with. Why, say. ! was told for
that skate wasn't out for it to-day, and
here l go and slide in q big tearof on it
anyhow You can't tell me that horse
isn't wearing bar plates to-day instead
OF racing shoes.
! had a bunch that they were going 70 toss
the gang on that one to-day. sure did have.
They're looking for the long price against
that one-thRt's the answer.
They don't want any even money junk
against that o~ne-about 9 to / is the figure
they're peekng around for. Oh, ! guess
With a ooupla c-ocEroaches IN it before
they saddled him to-day. hey1
81 guess they didn't stake him to some
OF that No. IL run backward dopeeky with
his bran mash this morning. And guess
that kid that rode him isn't there with the
sixteen inch bioeps bulb. hey?
"Oh, no! Didn't you see him take the
plug into every pocket he could find on the
back stretch. and then, coming into the
stretch. give the mutt an of side kick with
all hie might, to carry him to the outside
fence? Well, il you didn't, you want to
get your wicks treated, that's ALL And
to thinka me falling for a stall like that!
Its entertaining. too, to eavesdrop on
the fellow who meant all the time to play
Say, fellers. dye know I made up
my mind soon as ! olapped my lamps on
he says to his bunch after the wrong number
for him and his g%roup-has been hung out.
DANCED IL I didn't, says to myself soon
as I saw that ones name. That for
mine-hen cop by as far as from here to
Lake Huron
That's just what l says to myself,
and here l trudge out here and overlook
that one altogether! Didn't even see his
name on the programme.
III he'd been something like even money
or 4 to S in the betting I'd have seen his
fool name right enough all right and I'd
have broken fourteen mems arms butting
into the ring to get my checks down. But
here he oapers up to the webbing at 20 to 1,
and / don't see his monaker on the list at
all and he swings home by his lonesome.
l ought TO be there with one Of those white
aprons selling f~rankfurters.'
And then the bug who got q run for 1t,
anyhow. is there with his little bunch Of
conversation-kind o. pathetic. that one,
l always think when / hear him.
Well. I'm not kicking, felle-s,' he nays
when the one he's bet on loses by a narrow
margin. Look at the RUIZ / eot2 on'y
got beat on the wire by a face. ! drop
twenty men on him, Of course. but l gotta
run all rightsky, and that lets me out. doesn't
it?'
" But getting a run doesn't get you any
thing suggests q Of his group.
''0h. I know 1 don't cash, Of course
says the optimist, but ! amt hoking7,not
a bit Of 1t. II he'd run like q lob it ID "a
been different, but 1 amt asling for a better
run than l got for my conn.,