The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-23

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hundred thousand or So-some such foolisf
henres-on-Reina, whsreas l had actually
drilled a 5000 hole In myself by betting
onsAdvance Guard TO cop.
1t took me the remainder OF the afternoon
70 do the collecting for my broker friend
1 vent 70 my apartment from the track Ia
dress for dinner, expecting TO dig up my
broker friend some time that evening
and hand him the big wad. But he was
sprawled back IN one of my sitting room
leather chairs when I got TO my apartment
Well, Of all the fat heads l started TO
kid him, that ever
'"He was over In front Of ma In two jumps
and his mouth was drawn back from his
teeth, and his eyes, were blazing with
@'Well7' he asked me out OF a dry mouth.
Well what?' 1 asked him.
Did Reina--'
oh, you haven't heard them said /,
and ! reached into my breast pocket and
pulled out the rubber banded bundle-it
'Reina won, on the wire like a tired dog
that's been following a farmers buggy
to church and back on q hot Sunday. and
Il had to break of there to grab hold
q! him. for he was keeling over. / slid
him into a chair and chucked some water
into his face, and ne came around after a
While. Then he out with it aud told me.
He was more thar $40, 900 to the bad with
his firm. He'd been trying to put over
some private speoulations with the firms
money. with the usual result. And the
Reina trick had saved him. When he
finished telling me-. he pulled a loaded pistol
from his hin pocket and handed IL TO me.
broke 1t and dumped the bullets on the
table. {
Were yon?' I asked him.
Oh. not here In your rooms he told
mo 'Rnt that UaYlI have hnon fha 1pIy
thing left II Reina hadn't done IT,.
Il rave him about two hours Of nom
versation right then and there, and he's
never PLAYED n horserane since, His firm
is swinging along with the top sawvers now.
and the scandalously rich gifts that he's
children are a constant source Of embarrass-
ment to me.
'11l quote Won smother similar instance
that, goes back a rood many years before
Reira's Btocklyn Handicap.to the day. in
fact, when King Cadmus, the horse that
gave Pittshhrg Phil his treat running
st1rt. won his race. Phil vas rot the only
mfn who knew how good King Cadmus was
going to be that dey. Among the others
who knew II WAS the MANAGER Of q COM
mercial men,s hotel n Broadway In the
absence OF the nronrietot this manager had
running the hotel himself for n wear
the boss WAS TRAVELLING IN Europe. The
msnager had rllows4t himself to get into
the habit0f Diokin~ the f1fties and hundreds
out OF the hotel till to SEN down to II e
tracks and by the time the boss OF the plant
WAS due b1ck from Europe the MANAGER
was about $4,000 to the wrong at that kind
of work. The money wasn't covered ~
bv any maninrlation OF the accounts. IT
was actually missing from the hotels bank
account
THE MANAGE knew his hoes tn be a stern
old party. and he made zip his mind to give
them all Q run for il befora he stood for the
stripes. He made ARRANGEMENTS with the
skipper Of a ship that was about to sail from
New York for a mort in Ecuador. and he got
his traps out OF the hotel and on board the
.windjammer. His plan was to make one
last try to get back the missing coin in one
and, il that failed. to draw a big bundle
of his employers currency from the various
banks and then make his run.
THE whisper as to King Cadmus had
his way. He knew there'd be the
big price. He went TO the Brighton track
and got 81 900 down at 40 20 4. IL was Pitts
burg Pills coin that Knocked the price
against King Cadmus down from 80 to / to
8 to / at post time that day. King Cadmus
romped home, the hotel anage collected
his $4,000 win. returned to town. got his
things oil the ship n made good the bank
deficiency.
"The hotel proprietor got back from
dandy. The fact that this hotel manager
capable Of being taught by expert
ence. and that he fell to stealing again later
IN and got caught at it, doesn't spoil the
Instance. Horses. no matter how good and
they are, can't go on. pulling knaves
md fools out Of the mire from one years
md to the other"