The sun., 1907-03-31

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took nineteen millions away from them
that first week. didn't want to SEQ the
game stop, you SEQ. wanted 70 protraoS
the fun Of getting IL all.
That was right said l. You did ngnt
to stretch 10 out. Thsre'd have BEEN some
soreheads II you'd done IL all too sudoeniy'
Wellr
s'Oh, WELL he said, I took seventy
nine millions away from them In the next
three weeks, and then began 70 feel sorry
for them. so I went to England 70 work
the system there.
1.-The red pOrcupIne had told me could
10 TO England and IL would be all r1ght.
Got there in time for the Liverpool summer
meeting.
Hard losers, those English bookmaksrs.
After I'd taken e47 900 600 away from them
the first day they began to make CRACKS
about bally stupid Americans with fool
luck. SO went to EPSON Downs the next
day and took slxty-seven millions OF
guineas out OF the ring Just to keep IN
practice.
"'why pounds at Liverpool and guineas
at EPSON DownsT asked him, but he was
too deep in the swing OF big figures then
to listen to mo.
wasn't much money in EnRland-hard
times, AGRICULTURAL depression and that
and so I went to France, where the fan
meeting at Lonschamps was beginning just
as got there.
-'Would you believe it, when I'D only
won a trifie Of three hundred and eighty
ak millions of francs on the first day by
parlayinR nv first 100000 franc bet the
French Jockey Club held a meeting behind
closed doors and decided TO exclude me
from the LonRchamps course for fear that
| I'd break up French racing allowed to 60
on operating
s'Weu, YOU could hardly blame 'em,
could your said I. r s'pose they felt as
| il they'd like to keep q few centimes IN
| their country-nothinS unreasonable about
that
a'Exclusion from Longchamps means be-
ing shut out Of all the French tracks, he
went on, and by this time his tapers looked
/ as excited as flaming pine torches in gale
Of wind, and so there was nothing for me
to do but to move on to the next racing
| country.
"Poor little Belgium! Such pikers, the Bel
giansl Itook only eighty millions OF francs
away from them my first afternoon there.
and, honest, they curled up on me-warned
me Off the Ooursel
-'Nothing for il, then, except FOR me to
go to Austria, where hoped to get little
real play. Well, they allowed me to operate
there for a week, but after I'd won the
stingy little matter Of eight hundred mill
ions Of fiOrins-playing the tall blue letter
winners by the shut the eyes system the
red porcupine had given me-the Hungarian
Parliament passed q resolution exiling me
from the country, and was conducted to
the Russian frontier by a regiment OF SOL
diers'
-'Didn't you complain to our State De-
partmentH l asked him. But, better than
that, Why didn't you just buy Austria
Hungary and chase everybody else to the
| frontier?'
~ reached Moscow in time for the great
Moscow Derby he continued. and when
offered TO bet a billion rubles on the horse
ridden by an American jockey in that race
why, they-but / hate to talk about it.
Actually, they accused me Of being crazy.
Do look or talk like a Crazy manr
"'An alienist's rates are two hundred iron
men per diem, and l haven't seen the color
Of your coin yet,' told him. you can't
expect me to take the stand as an expert
without showing me, can your
Well anyhow, he went on. was only
allowed to bet half billion rubles on the
horse ridden by the American jockey
that horses name was the one ia seen In the
tall blue letters, you see-and when the horse
won in a walk, why, thought they were
going to mob me. they were so mad. The
bookmakers were 80 sore that they i'm
mediately got drunk on vodka after I'd
taken all Of their money. and Russian book
makers drunk on vodka are ugly custo-
mers. So went away from there
High time. said I. But why didn't
you tarry long enough to play a game Of
fan-tan with the Cart You might have
cleaned him. too
-'I came back here In time for the winter
meeting at New Orleans he went on. not
noticing. but that was foolish.
''I only won such supper money stun
as four million dollars one day, and Bud
Remand and Louis Celia and Ed Corrigan
and the rest of them all got together and
ruled ne out OF both New Orleans tracks
IN the ground that was a menace 10 the
turf, my system was so unfailinG-of course
1 didnt tell them what my system was.
but they knew l must have one.
$50 left New Orleans and tried the
California tracks, out II wasnC any better
there. You see, broke all the San Fran
CISCO bookmakers in one race and after
that they were all on the ground and there
was nobody the crowd could get their bets
down with, and this attracted the attention
| Of Tom Williams, the turf boss out there
and he dug me up and told me he was sorry
but that the fourteen millions I'd won on
that race was more than the layers could
afford and he wished I'd leave there and
be nice, he said. SO did
We'll, you were always agreeable about
leaving, anyway, weren't your said l.
Now. II you'd insisted on staying right on
why
We'll. just reached Melbourne, Aus
tralla. In time for the Melbourne cup
With my shut eyes I saw the winner Of the
Melbourne cup In the tall blue letters four
teen feet high on my way down on the
steamer, and l didn't care to arouse sus-
picions by playing anything else that day.
Played only the cup race. The take
down was foOlishly small, but enjoyed the
! spectacle. Winnings were three hundred
1 millions OF pounds sterling. and the Aus
tralian layers we're very angry, calling me
Yankee and such like.
~'But l loaned them each a hundred
thousand guineaS for supper money and