The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-19
WOMAN LEARNED
QUEER TRACK
Under the Tutorship of Joe
Ullman Olive Logan Makes
q Success.
TURF FOLLOWERS LINGO
About as Hard to Learn as
Russian-Definitions
Difficult.

Olive Logan elaborated with Joe
Ullman the bookmaker in the making
of book of racing stories few
years ago. She recently told some
friends about the difficulties she en-
countered in connection with that job.
Il had to begin all over again so
far as learning the English language
was concerned, she said, Il mean race
track English. 1t was about as hard,
should imagine, as mastering Russ
ian. Nevertheless l was not in
position to refuse the work. At that
particular time l should have UNDER
taken to write a treatise in Sanskrt
on the hypothesis of the fourth d.
mension.
"Mr. Ullman was to tell me racing
stories and l was to reduce them to
plain English. l found Mr.. Ullman
to be a very sympathetic and agree
able man. But when he got on the
subject of racing-when he began 20
tell a racing story! He might just
as we'll been conversing in the Fam
best language, so far as my under
standing him was concerned.
"'Well, he ran on at our first work
ing meeting, in describing a race in
which the favorite had been taken
care of, that one, you see, was all
rugged to run for Sweeney
Sweeney broke in. Sweeney?
You haven't mentioned that gentle
mans name before. What did he have
to do with it?'
"Mr. Ullman looked puzzled for a
moment. Then he laughed.
Why he said, Sweeney is the
guy, you know, that all the lobs and
dead ones trudge for. Just figure
of speech, ma'am that's all. Sweeney
Is the-er-we-ll, you can put in an
other way. Just say that the favorite
was fixed to run for the end book,
and
The end book?' had to ask
him. DO you mean that some book
maker had an interest in the horses
nonsuccess and that
"Well, you can see how hopeless
I was. Mr.. Ullman finally got that
knot united for me, but that was only
the beginning. He was untying knots
of the same kind, and worse, for me
throughout all of our sessions.
"'Well,' he would say, and l trying
desperately to follow him, the boy
just picked the horse up and put him
in his lap and kept him there"
THAT seemed an astonishing per-
Torrance on the part Of jockey and
seemed to demand an explanation.
"Only little way of saying Mr..
Ullman explained when l broke in up
on him. that the horse was under
wraps and won off by himself, with
out the kid even hand riding him.
another time. WE'LL said Mr.. Ull-
man, the boy got off that horses
back and peddled matches and gum,
and still he won as far as from here
to Los Angeles and back
"That was a puzzler. too.
"'Ddd the jockey really dismount
during the race? l asked the book
maker. The horse must have been a
speedy animal to catch up after being
delayed that way and, of course, my
colloborator had very legitimate
laugh at my expense then.
"And then,' said Mr.. Ullman at an
other time, this mutt, that all hands
thought was bound for the glue works,
dropped out of the clouds, nailed the
rear end taggers in fourjumps, climbed
over horses, hung seven or eight of
them on the fence, jumped his way
through hole the size of dolls
thimble, caught the sooner counterfeit
that was zzgigging out in front at the
sixteenth and came home with a wet
sail, winning on the tapeovitch by a
face
IF remember correctly it took
Mr.. Ullman exactly twenty-five min
utes to unravel the meaning of that
little description of a race.
cat another time Mr.. Ullman was
telling me about a crooked piece of
work manipulated by a shady book
brother.
"'You see,' ne said, this sure-thing
layer had a brother who was working
the paddock end. The favorite figured
to be a 1-to-5 thing. and he was 'Aw-
kin's 'orse at that.
"'Well the chalker's brother gets
the cluck kid-the jock, mean
who's there with the strong arm, and
slips him q half M to attend to the
Snatchysky stuff. That's the way it's
fixed.
well. all the rest of the ringsters
lay 1 to 6 against the favorite, but
the shady penciler slaps up 1 to 2,
and yells for the high singers all 10
como to him. He takes in boiler
full Of kale at that figure without rub
bling.
s'But somebody in the judges
stand gets hep. and the kid 10 warned
that II he doesn't fetch the short-odda
clomper homo. he'll get It where Fan
ME wears the hchu, and Of course