The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-24
"Lunger" Grammar a Friend in Need

breakfast. and when he saw the
plunger he looked chagrined. Gran
nan walked over to his table with
cordial greeting.
PIN, said the plunger. what all
you. anyhow j haven't seen you at
the track for a long spell-ten days or
so
Staying away for a bit. Riley
said his friend.
feet?'
THE other man tossed his napkin
down and said:
Nope. Not cold feet But I'm into
you for four thousand, if you happen
10 remember, and l didn't want to
meet up with you until / had the kale
to hand TO you. That's all
Grammar grinned. You're an ass,
Jim he said. pleased. all the same,
over the eOnscientiousness shown by
his friend. Picking anything up?'
"'oh, in two-bit lots said the
friend
well. let's start said Grammar,
and the two went TO the track in
Grannans automobile.
That was the day when Grammar
put over his famous killing on lntru-
siVe He got 81 900 down at 10 to / for
his conscientious friends without the
latter knowing anything about it. On
the following morning Grammar walked
into the hotel where his friend was
again bFeakfasted.
"Count il and see if it's all right,
matey,' said Riley, tossing a yellow
bundle beside his friends plate. The
roll contained twenty $500 bills.
That's your bit of the Intrusive
thing. and now if you want to pay me
that four thousand. why. go ahead and
pay your head Off
"Grannan hated TO be followed
around in the betting ring. in the days
when he was doing his own betting.
by chaps eager to find out what he
was playing. This sort of thing even
tually became such a nuisance TO him
that he quit putting his money down
himself, employing shifting crews OF
commissioners to do his betting when
he wasn't looking, but playing them
from the ground. One afternoon at
Morris Park Grammar was executing
one of those little betting tricks known
as making a price He rustled down
the main bookmakers' line betting $500
at a crack on The favOrite.
The weight of his money forced the
prices I'D on the other contenders
When the real horse that the plunger
intended to get his big money down
on touched . to 1 on the states his
commissioners appeared at all of the
big bOOkieS' chairs simultaneously
and took that one for gobs. While
Grammar was slapping down the $500
bets on the one that he didn't mean,
motley gang of pikers followed closely
in his wake. They. of course. didn't
know the trick that was coming of,
and when they heard him call off the
name of the faYorite they rushed 20
get their small bets down. Grammar
didn't have much sympathy with this
tribe. but just as he was turning away
from the mob at the last stool on the
line he espied a shabby poor devil with
a 81 bill tightly clutched i'm his hand.
Something i'm the keen, worried look
of the chaps eye touched the plunger,
Well he said. choppily. facing
the notwithstanding chap with the Wis
ible 81 note. weave been treading on
my heels for H@if a mile now. and are
you sure you have got the right one
at that?'
Well replied the shabby chap. I
was trying to listen, Mr.. Grammar, be-
cause I haven't cashed a bet in long
time, and they've got me down TO my
last two bucks, and
Come over here said Grammar.
taking the man by the arm and haul
ing him over to a ring stanchion. Are
you a gabber, or can you keep your
tongue between your teeth?
The dejected-loOking chap replied
that he didn't know anybody around
the track to talk to.
All right, said Grammar, hurried
~ skimming a 800 bill from his roll.
Take this and get it down on Killing
Boer for yourself-don't pinch out any
of it. but get it down as II stands
there's to 1 now. if you hustle and
Grammar rushed off to see that his
commissioners were attending 10 their
business of eating up the price against
Rolling Boer
The shabby-lOoking man Obeyed
the plungeT's injunction and made the
biggest bet of his life. with a plunger's
money on a plunger's selection for his
own profit. Rolling Boer walked in
I'll bet that shabby chap had a pleas
ant thought or so of Riley Grammar
when the plunger cashed in at Raw
hide the other day.