The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-21

ring, without meaning TO have the Crouch
getout. and this wasmagnified into the state
ment, sent broadcast over the land. that
the plunger had been posted as a nom
settler. He came tearing back TO New
York the minute he heard this. madden
than mine guinea hens that have been robbed
OF their setting eggs, dug n hurry up bank
roll from a New Yorker. who had confidence
in his ability to connect right with a break.
paid up every pistole he owed within ten
days, and was SIS. 900 ou- m the van for
himself. A lot was made OF that story as a
WEIGHING case when, as a matter OF fact,
IL was only a technical WEIGH, and not meant
at all.
who get the welching hran2 are quite often
the victims of circumstNtc es and should
have been transferred to the welcher's
gallery at all,
Three years ago a Philadelphia hotel
man who had periodical fits OF betting
dipso, when he Just naturally had to bet
81 900 to a race on all six races on the card
for n week or 80 at a stretch. had TO stand
for the welching stigma.
His credit in the ring was OF the best.
with a decided pickle on, and In that shape
hunched his six bets to 81 900 apiece, losing
all Of them and then didn't turn up to slip
his ring creditors anything for o days
running, there began TO be some gossip.
One of the LAYERS wired to his Philad elphia
AHCNtl w 6pohN mn Vim 'hsU hVRhJ N'hNS
back from the manager OF the hotel that he
didn't know where his boss was and hadn't
clapped an eye on him for a couple Of weeks.
The gossip then swelled to a buzz. The
newspapers got hold OF IL, and the story
! popped into print about a well known
Philadelphia boniface,' dc, clawing the
! chalkers for a little piece Of junk estimated
10 be $e7 900, or omething lk whereas.
as | say. the amount was only $4,000
The story no sooner found It's way into
Hx;0t than 1na 80 Tho haadlinara In thu
ring-one of the layers to whom the Phila.
delphia man was indebte on his final
days play-got a cablegram from Liver
| pool. with the hotel mans monaker signed
to it. He had. it appeared, gone on board
a steamer TO See some Philadelphia pals
of to Europe. carrying his dill with him.
His pals had put up a job on him had got
him to lie down in n cabin, and he hadn't
come TO till the steamer was a couple OF
hundred miles the other side OF Sandy
Hook. He found ont when he reached
Liverpool that he'd been posted as a hiker
from his ring obligations. He sent checks
for what he owed from Liverpool, hut it's
a wondcC that h letters OF trensmittal
that accompanied the checks didn't set
the steamers mail cargo on fire on the
way over here.
Then. a couple of years GO, there was
the case OF the we'll to do and thoroughly
honest Newark paving contractor who
got himself chinned about as a welcher
lOT no OlIlpT TtdHDu III ~ lIhll lhut blb
good wife presented him with a set OF
triplets. They're still laughing about that
in the main ring whenever three horses are
coupled in the betting, and the memory OF
the triplets thus pops into their heads.
The Newark man, a husky
American with an Irish wife. was a $500 to
a race bettor. and his fingers were good
for anything he asked for. He always
turned up promptly on the next day to
take his cop outs II he'd beat EN- or to
l.. - 4 - - No. L.. Nh,.-h
all six Of his picks ran for Parrish. the
ring water carrier. and none for the Newark
man. He'd lone a bit Of bet doubling
hat day too, 80 that at the end OF the day
he was $500 on the wrong side Of some
six or seven layers sheets.
when he didn't show up with something
in his hand at the end Of two days. m
Of the layers became some peevish and
exude a crack or two. II didn't get into
any papers except those printed in Newark
but they sort Of spread II out in the sporting
columns of the papers down there-'Well
known and highly respected paving con
tractor Of Newark. whose horse playing
proclivities, however. have been a grief
to his friends for some time and all like
that. with the windup that the Newark
man had broken IL of in the bookies up this
way to the ragged tune of t27, 500 or some
such silly trihe. This. ar ! say. was in the
sporting columns But on h very same
day OF the front page Of the Newark papers
WAS the announcement tnaJ tne NeWaTk
mans wife had given birth to a swagger
bunch Of triplets. all boys, and aggregating
twenty seven pounds in weight.
And what was the answer? The Newark
man had found those triplets waiting for
him with their little red. doubled up mitts
when he got home from the track on the
day he lost his six in a row and $500 and
he was so swelled up and chirky and excited
over that layout Of new young men at his
plant that he'd clean forgot all about horses
and bookmakers and lapsing count and
everything else on earth-except triplets-
till he saw tina stun in his HON papers
about his being a Splinter in the opposite
direction from his lawful debts. sup
pose maybe that Newarker didn't paw
the ground like a bull moose or anything
when he ran right up 20 the ring TO fix up
his outstanding alance next day.
"'Ye ~fat-nuts!' he bawled at the layers
Who held his markers. Dye think hat a
man that's right enough To be the father Of
three at a clip Is going TO run away from
anything or anybody
And then they laughed. but he couldn't
see it