Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-19

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the other day by the Celia
crowd on Rustic was pretty
well put over" said a bookmaker, but
their cash betting kink wasn't original
stuff, as some of the new people at the
game thought it was at the time.
"They sneaked in the currency on
Rustic in S1OO, 5000 and $500 lots, you'll
ting thing, as usual, and that's why
the layers who got singed didn't wake
up to it that Rustic was the one until
the Celia sifters stood to tear off some
thing like 100000.
Their switch to the cash way OF
betting was an old turnover, and Pitts
burg Phil invented it. as he invented
most of the cagey kinks for the par
fling of the price-fixers.
"The first time he ever played the
spot coin way for big money was When
he got Lord Turco over, and that was
the heaviest haul-in he ever made at
It.
"All of his bets had been made on the
nod. so that when a whole slew of fell
lows with unfamiliar faces sashayed
up and down the main line tamplng III
the spot yellows on Lord Turco-tnere
was as good as 20 to l at the pegln-
ming.
I'VE all took it that 1t was merely
one of those muSh-noddled paddock
tips and looked upon the bales of Tur-
co money as straight out, permanent
Innings for the satchels, for the horse
had been running like a two-horned
rhino through thorn jungle, and nobody
on the stool row had chance to hgure
him as being in the picture.
Some of the layers got wise TO IL
lust a little bit before the race and
rubbed Turco to nothing, but it was TOO
late. The tide of strengthening
money had muddled us utterly, and
Phil's pull-off wasn't pistole short OF
$4,000, for the Turco thing finished
alone.
Varied Methods
"Phil wasn't a repeater on his
schemes without big intervals between
them, and he didn't try the cash way
again until John Madden's Aristocracy
won the big two-year-old race at Sara
toga.
"He put it over again that time, get
ting as high as 80 to 1 against the Mad
den trick with his unfamiliar looking
spot kale. and he picked up a bale of 1t
that time too
1.-The layers had no possible way of
doping out Phil's constant switches in
his STYLE of ring generalship, and that,
of course, is why he went on, year after
wear. leaving the barbs in them, and
why, when he made his final cash in,
he had pretty nigh 100000 of the ring
money.
His handling of his commissioners
in itself was perfect work. He'd change
his betting crews constantly and the
bookies never had a chance to become
really familiar with their maps.
For instance, the book runners
would pipe Phil standing off in Sc
cluded part of the lawn surrounded by
ten or a dozen of the commissioners
whowho had done his betting the day |
before.
"The outside men would get the faces
of the fellows standing around Phli
firmly printed in their minds eyes, and
then they'd stand right alongside the
layers for whom they worked waiting
for those fellows to come up.
"Well, they wouldn't come along. |
Their standing on the lawn talking with
Phil would be only a blind to fool the
outside men. An entirely different crew
of Phils commissioners would sWoop !
into the ring that day and get down
his money.
"There wasn't anything about the
game that he wasn't about four jumps
ahead from first to last, and that's why
he stuck to the finish. 1t used to be |
said that Phil never took worse than
even money, and that he usually de-
manded 2 to 1 or better, but as mat
ter of truth he'd take anything that
was offered in price making opera
ton, and it was an odd day when he
didn't frame things so that he managed
to get just about the price he wanted |
and thought was right. He'd go to
any amount of trouble to toss the lay
ers off the scent.
Bookies Become UnnerVed
"These successes on the part of Pitts
-. Mill e,,o1lx, oyot tho hookipS' nerves |