The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-01-13

NEW ORLEANS. La, Jan 12.-The
money end OF the current winter meet
ing is what most Of the professional
turf followers find time over which 10
talk. for never In the history OF racing
OF the New York circuit and about Chi
cago. In the halycon Washington Park
DAYS. has so much currency shown in
the betting bOurse.
Since the beginning OF the New Year
every boOkmsker operating at either City
Park or the Fair Grounds has found
all the play he desired to handle. and
not OF the hard. smart set sort either,
for a good deal or the coin being wager
ed here this winter comes from the
casual race track visitors. This Is the
season when the planters, the cotton
brokers, and the Industrial magnates OF
the extreme South find time for a hol-
day.
Boolies Crave 'New Soft Money"
They nock into New Orleans, and
while their ladies attend the matinees,
HE themselves To the race track Game
gamblers and prodigious bettors are
these sports OF the Far South planta-
tons so the bookmaking line is sub
jected to an enfilading OF fresh shot
every day. New soft money" is what
the bookmakers crave.
They hate the educated play which
comes from the owners ana trainers in
the paddock. while they dote on the hap
hazard gambling done By the unsophisti-
Gated sugar planters, and as every
planter and farmer. be Ne a producer
of cotton. sugar OF rice. is just now wax
a
liberal line OF the right sort OF patron
age. This circumstance is making New
Orleans racing ideal from the book
makers standpoint
on the whole. the recent session at
the Fair Grounds was the incest book
making lay ever encountered here. on
an average thirty-four main line
books were IN operation daily. with four
field" books also doing business. Just
eight years ago the Fair Grounds game
opened up aTtth eleven books. four or
which were financed by the racing ssso-
citation itself. Quite a difference today.
Celia Is Big Loser.
In every line Of human endeaVOr there
must be winners as well as losers. First
come the City Park Jockey Club and the
Crescent city Jockey Club. Both have
made money hand over INST Strange to
saw. one OF the spectacular losers ON the
season is the big book run by Charley
Celia. OF st. Louis. Mo, brother OF the
Missouri magnate. Louis Celia He Is
supposed to have an edge on the winter
game. but 10 date all the sharpshooters
! i'm the ring have gotten home a bulls
eye on Celia.
At one time the Celia enterprises stood
so 400 10 the bad celia. along with
other layers, including Barney Ryan
the New York bookmaker, fell for
sloughing at the hands Of the parties
who engineered the coups 10 DrOmingo
and again TO Pity, the former being
backed down from 30 10 20 70 ?, while
PITY was bet on 20 wiz when her
price stood at q 10 / in the market
Strange 10 say. both these long shots
beat odds-on favorites, DrOmingO Just
getting home in front Or Harmakis, a
3-to-5 proposition, while Pity beat old
Tobogan. a l-to-2 chance. As the same
clique OF bettors backed both these long
shots on the above occasions more or
less scandal arose over the AFFAIR.
Jockey Mountain rode HarmalSis.
This horse had AL the speed and only
that Mountain did everything possible
10 prevent his winning, he should have
galIoped. Afterward Mountain eX-
planned that an injury 10 his right eye.
through being hit with a Clot OF dirt
while riding in a previous race, had
blinded him so that he could not see
Dromio coming up on the outside. Since
then Mountain has been dubbed Bad
Eye" Mountain.