Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-24
MUGGSY M'GRAW WILL ENTER
BETTING RING SOON
Inspector 3, Sire Of Many Noted Per-
formers, Sold for Small Sum.
DurneII Buys schrelber's
Interest
Special to The Herald.


today.
This is very interesting and very char
acteristic of the great little baseball leader
of the New York Giants who is first of all
a thinker" and a sort of fellow who is
usually found doing things for himself
along certain lines unique and apart from
the general way McGraw doesn't believe
it is possible for man to run into racing
and beat the horses by betting his money,
but he does hold that conservative, care
full business man can master the sport so
thoroughly, either os bookmaker. owner
or as a professional Spectator, that rich
dividends may be had from moderate in
vestment.
McGraw refuses to call racing a sport"
Says Mac: why, the game Is nothing
more than a business and the man who
can arrange an edge or an advantage
for himself over his competitors in the
betting ring and in the paddock can win
and make money. There 1t is in nut.
shell. Any man who bets on a horse race
without having an edge on the book
maker is a BOBBY. The men who are MAX
ing money on the turf are they who
manage to get so to 1 against natural
even money choice Then they take to
to show against it,
This is all entertaining and, moreover.
true. There are many men who are max
ing fortunes from racing. To begin with,
the business of thoroughbred racing offers
very little return to the straight out-and
out gambler The gambler never sue
ceeds in anything. A prominent turfman.
and a successful one, too. recently de
clared: when you have eliminated the
element of chance in your race track
ventures down to the very limit of posi-
blity, then you have chance of winning
There is nothing in racing for the hap
hazard sort of fellow. Luck never
brings anything but disappointment in the
long run"
For many years McGraw has been a big
speculator on the horses and with con-
siderable success, too. This, too. while at
tending to the exciting duties of a Ma
tional league manager. He has some nice
property holdings here in New York and
at Baltimore Md. Looking after this in
terest and pursuing turf career will
surely keep McGraw as busy in the years
to come as he is today
While the sporting world will be in
terested in seeing just how Mac makes out
on the turf. no one wants to see him lose
his bank roll in an experiment where so
many before him have failed and gone to
ruin. incidentally the race horses remain
the allurement of all ball players A well
known Broadway commissioner has be-
come wealthy in handling credit accounts
for the ball players connected with the
Brooklyn and New York National league
clubs and the Yankees of the American
league.
There is scarcely one of the. PLAYERS of
these clubs but dabbles on the horses. A
few years ago Isl" Seymour, Jake
Beokley, Ed Delehanty and Comiskey of
chicago were about the only big league
men who knew enough about the horses
TO wager 500. Nowadays the average pro-
fessional ball player knows more about
racing form than he does of the official |
eague averages.
Same Old Cry
once again the old-time cry of Rob
oer!' Thief is being hurled in the di-
lection of the jockeys quarters. Up un-
II the beginning of the oneepshead Bay
meeting the racing was clean of scandal. |
out there certain jockeys put up such
Ugly looking rides that the public has
been calling mean names ever since.
Jockey Jack" Martin, Jockey Radtke |
and Jockey George Mountain have come
n for severe criticism.
The Rainey Brothers will scarcely en-
oloy Radtke next year, the jockey having
oeen under suspension at their orders for |
week. The Cleveland (Ohio) turfmen |
1idn't like the way Radtke landed King
Ames recently, while his riotous life |
among the gay followers of the Coney |
Island summertide revel is displeasirg to |
the men who paid SIS 900 for his services |
but two years ago
On the other hand the two lightweights |
Miller ana Eddie" Dugan. are riding |
with marked consistency and with the |
public following loyalty In their wake. |
NO horse which either of them rides goes
to post altogether unplayed, he bettors
figuring that 100-to-1 shot has a chance |
to win under ride from Dugan or Mil |
ler For years the insinuatior, in effect
that collision between bookmakers and |
Jockeys has been often heard, but moth |
ing could be further from the truth.
Twenty years ago in the bushes that
was the way the tricksters flimfammed
the public, but nowadays it s. the big
bettors and plungers who do business
with the riders. Horses are pulled today
and run to win their next race at long
price. The qualifying race" is the bug
bear OF the turf today. The average race
player has first 10 dope out the nat
uraily best horse and then learn whether
or not the right money is showing to
him.
Just now the public is not getting the
money here in the east. Neither Is the
bookmaker. The race track association
and the slick paddock factions who cook
up and arrange moral cinches are gather
ing the harvest. Under the irdulgent SUI
pervision of the complimentary stewards
employed in the jockey club system the
rankest form reversals pass unchallenged.
A man may run his horse short on a
Wednesday and then come out and beat
a better field on the following Saturday
AS a matter of fact ir the first week
at Sheepshead Bay certain horse was
started on Saturday where he stood at
10 to 3. Evidently the price didn't suit
Back he came next day with ten pounds
up and in a far superior field. With
to against him, he just romped home.
At San Francisco or New Orleans the
incident would have provoked tremen-
dous scandal. Here the paddock trainers
got the money while the public and the
bookmakers lost heavily. 1t appears the
freebooters are taking urdue liberties
with the easy-going stewards. The pres
ent tolerance of these sharpers is hurt
ing racing more than all the screeching
reformers in the entire state.
Inspector B Sold
Inspector B., a once famous race horse,
was recently sold to a farmer for $15
The Denver meeting came to a close
yesterday.
IN tho ave of his denartIIra for tbe