The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-19

men Of tho turf game almost since the Black
Hawk war, was mooching around the
Morris Park lawn half an hour or 90 before
the big race when the talk Of a nearby tout
sfhs tout had a bunch Of marks around
him and he was easing II into them how
70 had the for sure winner of-tho big
tw~o-year-Old race salted away under hls
hat. He proceeded to show them BY elimi.
mating everything on tho programme OF
the event except the one he had picked
to cop.
on the programme he just tossed back his
head and laughed hard,
''Souse me Pr this mirth, fellers.' he
| gurgled 10 HE gaRg Of marks. But can't
help H., honest q Mag, | can't. Cunard,
heyi Wait til I cit somebody 10 hold me.
CunArd, heyi HaW haw haWP
"0ne OF the marks Veptured 10 kick In
with the remark that he'd heard that
Cunard wasn't such . bad sort Of . two
yOar-Old. .
IL jes' can't help II, ~fellers-I can't help
mirthin',' said the tout, paying no atten-
ton to the marks observation. Say,
hasn't that old Whiakerinos from tn Slope
got his noive with him & t'iHk no can skate
along here Wit q camel crab and nail tn
Junk In q hoss race like this Il goln' q be1
Amt hel And told'hlm % nesef this
''You didy said one Of the tout's ~SOftles,
impressed.
on'y that, but he, comes t'noo hiseelf and
says he knows Cunard amt Eotno ohaneet,
but he says he's on'y goin' q run Cunafd
fr work an raoin' experiencs a. long a.
he's got him entered, SeeI 30 you can cut
out that lob. ! seen him wOik by candle
light yistiddy monin', an he runs like q
giraffe wiz tn smokers heart. So, v zee,
they's on'y one in Il, and that's- and he
named the one that he was handing out for
. pine.
well. old man Morrisis bright, youthful
eyes gloWed when be heard the tout'S reel,
and the gnns hiokerOd over hia face like
the shadowe over q vttagrsph Aim. The
stun amused him % much that no followed
tho tout over the lawn for ten or fifteen
minutes just for the fun Of hearing him,
Now. there's no Rainsayina Che effect
Of the talk Of even n busy tout when that
talk Ia addressed exclusively to bunchss
OF holiday visitors at q noetnack. One
Of the marks goss oH and tOlla all Of his
friends, also marks, that he has just heard
. horseman that looked like he ought 10
know say 30 and %. and that talk always
sticks and helps TO make prices. Don't
imagine that II won't even help to switch
the wise OneS when they hear II repeatedly
and strongly.
"A quarter OF an hour before the big
t~Wo-year-old race the word had sifted
all owe the Morris Park grounds that
Green Morris didn't like Cunard. The
rumor even hit the bookies' line, aud the
layers took the story a. II reached them
and ohalked q juicy proc against the Morris
colt.
Morris and tho people close TO him got
the cream Of the price, which hoated in some
books a high as 20 to 1 and Morris and his
crowd made the cleanup Of their lives,
for Cunard had the race at his mercy and
took II with the greatest ease.
After Cumard's numb or went up old
man Morris dug around and found the
tout leaning in q dazed sort Of way against
a betting ring stanchion. Morris peeled
a hundred from one Of his wads and clipped
1t 10 the tout, who took Il handy enough.
but with Q natural expression Of amaze
ment.
THAT moneys coming TO you for two
reasons, son, explained old man Morris
goodnaturedly. In the first place. you
certainly did make the price against nv
cole, or helped to make II, and you ought
to be rewarded for that. In the second
place, in an experience Of nearly half a CEN
tury on the racetracks, | have never met
up with such an ornate and wholly Eifted
liar az you are, and | take IL such GENUS
certainly deserves reward at the hands Of
those who benefit by the lying and With a
chuckle the old boy walked away