The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-18

| OAANG 4-OSdAA EUl4ciOOloACA WIZ
Ullman, the bookmaker, in the making
of book of racing stories a few years
| ago. She recently told some friends
about the difficulties she encountered
in connection with that job.
II had to begin life with all over
again so far as learning the English
language was concerned, she said L
mean sracetrack English. 1t was about
as hard. I should imagine. as mastering
Russian.
Nevertheless. was not in a posi-
ton to refuse work. At that particular
time / would have undertaken TO write
a treatise i'm Sanskrit on the hypoJhe-
| sis of the fourth dimension.
Mr.. Ullman was to tell me racids
stories and / was to reduce them TO
| written form. 1 found Mr.. U!lman 10
| he very sympathetic and agreeabie
man. But when he got on the subject
of racing-when he began TO tell rae
ing story, He might just as well have
been cOnversing in the Zambesi IAN
guage so far as my understanding MIN
was concerned.
| Well he ran or, 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 riggeu 10
run for Sweeney
4" Sweeney I broke in. Sweeney?
You haven't mentioned that gentle
mans name before. What cid he have
to do with it,
Mr.. UlIman looked puzzled for
moment. Then he laughed.
why he said, Sweeney is the
guy, you know, that all the lObs and
dead ones trudge for. Just a figure OF
speech. ma'am. that's all. Sweeney is
- Ill n rTfafh .
way. Just say that the fayOrite was
fixed to run for the end book, and
The end book ! had to ask him.
Do you mean that some bookmaker
had an interest in the horses nOn-suc-
cess and that
We'll. you can see how hopeless /
was. Mr.. UIIman finally got that knot
united for me, but that was only the
beginning. He was uutying 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 AMI put him in
his lap and kept him there.
That seemed an astonishing per-
Torrance on the part of a jockey and
seemed TO demand an explanation
only a little way of saying, Mir.
Ullman explained when | broke in upon
| and won off by himself, without the
kid even hand riding him
'.AnOtheT time, Well said Mr.. III
man, the boy got off that horses back
and peddled matches, and still he won
by as far as from here to Los Angeles
and back
THAT was a pUZzleT, too.
g Did the jockey really disBount
during the race / asked the book
maker. The horse must have been an
extraordinarily speedy animal to catch
up after being delayed that way and
Of course my collaboration had very
= legitimate laugh at my expense then.
And then said Mr.. Ullnan at an
other time, this mutt, that all hands
: thought was bound for the glue works,
I dropped out of the clouds, nailed the
: rear end taggers in four jumps, climbed
r over horses, hung seven or eight Of
'em on the fence. damned his way
through a hole the size Of a DOLL
e thimble caught the sooner counterfeit
that was fizgigging out in front at the
sixteenth and came home with Il wet
sail. winning on the tapeovitch by a
: face
IF remember correctly IL took Mr..
I IUllman exactly twenty-five minutes II
unravel the meaning IF that little de-
: scription of race.
{ AT another time AiT. Cllman was
e telling me about crooked piece Oi
work manipulated by a shady book
maker and the shady bookmaker's
e brother.
"'You see,' he said, this sure thing
: player had a brother who was working
= the paddock end. The favorite figured
to be a I to thing, and he was Awk-
ms 'Orse. at that
"'Well, the chalxer's brother gets 10
the e1uck kid-the jock I mean-whO's
there with the strong arm, and slips
him a half Nj to attend to the snatch
sky stuff. That's the way it's fixed
: We'll all the rest of the ringsters
lay ] to against the favOrite, but the
a shady penCiler slaps up 1 TO and yells
S for the high singers all TO come tC
him. He takes in a boileTful of kale al
e that figure without rubbing.
But somebody in the judges stand
gets hep, and the kid is warned that
iif he doesn't fetch the short odds ciom-
per home, he'll get II where Fannie
, wears the fichu. and of course there:
s nothing else for him to do but to HAND
the two-cross to the Phony layer, anC
he kicks the favorite out from the raj
of the drum and fetches him down Il
the wire by the difference between cen
trial and Rocky mountain time, and th'
e tricksey layer and his brother got &
green ticket for the citron patch foi
theirs
You are to remember that for man.
years l had been editing home page
and women's departments. and the like
leave it to any impartial person
5 that kind of a narrative wasn't calcu
lated to make me think that l wa
, dreaming gibberish.
"He was telling me how one of hi
own horses was left at the post in
$ big race.
"'And there was J. he said. 'whe
the web went up, standing still with m
weight on my heels. rubbering over III
fence at g bunch of dinges sitting in
n tree outside the grounds
He meant that his horse had bee
left hatfooted when the barrier wen
up. and that the horse in his abstrac
ton had been gazing at cluster o
: darkies in the tree outside the trac
grounds But is it reasonable TO sup
pose that I-editress of a woman pag
could have known that without som
calculation?
!? You We're standing stIl?' I said t
him. oh. then this wasn't horseracs