Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-06

He nodded and grinned. I grinned and
| nodded back. hadn't then noticed that
yen-yen light in his lamps. I could see
that he was in for a chaw.
playing EN- any in the handbooks?
he asked me.
'All through with that give-it-away-to-
folks stun, l replied, virtuously. Nary
a play"
with fine candor. "Y'see, l don't want
to take their pocket change away from
them: AS a matter of fact. matey, I've
got all the money In the world, anyhow"
Even that didn't make me look very
closely at his map. 1t sounded like new
stun on me, and SO I stalled.
We'll. that's q lot of money" | said
Worry you much to carry it around
with you?"
Handy Check Book.
"Oh. not so much.' he answered, airily.
You see, l won't have cash. What's the
use? l own it all. So 1 just carry a
check book, and when 1 want a few mil
lions all I've got to do is to drop into
any bank-any bank. anywhere-and
scratch a check. Makes it soft for me,
you see. All the money. everywhere, is
mine, and all I've got to do Is to dip in.
OF course. the bookmakers have a few
bones left-a few hundred thousand ali
told, say; but l don't call that money 1t
might be money for you, but not for me-"
Say. l said then, beginning to hep up
little. blow that smoke out of the
window: maybe the waiter won't like 1t
around here"
But, honest, l mean it." he said, ear
nestly: Il want You to get the few hun
dred thousands that the bookies have got
left L know the way to take it away
from them. I've cleaned them all over
the earth, and 1 guess 1 ought to know
My system is the shut-the-eyes SYSTEM
Great, 1 couldn't help but comment.
ANY system can be played with the eyes
shut just as we'll as with the eyes open.
In fact. most system players haven't any
eyes at all. like those fishes born In the
Mammoth Cave Of Kentucky. That's the
reason they're system players
But L can see the name of the winner
with my eyes Shut. and l can teach you
the trick in three minutes" he persisted;
and he became f1ushy and panty and
feverish looking
Shoot It," said L: I'm listening"
well, it's this way he began, settling
down in the chair opposite mine i
came upon this system three years ago
in the middle of the night A green
chipmunk with a pink tail came and sat
years ago and told ME about it. This
green chipmunk sat there on the foot
board drumming on mandolin and talk
ing to me. l was playing them pretty
stiff at that time and losing right along.
Didn't save shoe-shine change, in tact,
when that green chipmunk came along
We'll, the chipmunk told me to shut
my eyes tight. 1 did. I'd no sooner shut
them than l saw the name Of horse in
yellow letters fourteen feet high The
green chipmunk told me that one would
win the next day-and then he strummed
some more on his mandolin
Then the green chipmunk told me that
all I'd have to do from that time on would
be to go to bed and close my eyes and I'd
see the name of a winner for the next
day in the same kind Of tall yellow let
tiers, and that none Of these winners
would be less than 10 to 1 in the bet
ting
Cut Out Dope Sheet.
Some dreamy, that green chipmunk.
hey?" I got in there. Meant to save you
the trouble Of keeping dope Sheets of
course. That's the SYSTEM"
That's it," he painted. That's how /
came to get all the money on the globe.
except the few hundred thousands
itll foot up a silly million-that I. want
you to get out Of the handbook people,
That's sure good of you, boz 1 muir
INJURED. just to nudge him along. did
you begin right away after that first visit
of the cerise chipmunk?"
'Green--he was a green chipmunlx'' he
corrected. Yes, I began at Sheepshead
Bay the next day. with that first winner
Id seen the name of In the tall yellow
letters when the green chipmunk sat on
the footboard of my bed for the first time.
l only had 81 to bet after buying my
badge. The winner I'd seen the name of
was in the first race. / put the two on
and 1t win at 30 to 1. Then I came away
from the track. That night as soon as I
got into the hay the green chipmunk
showed up on the fOotboard again and
gave me a hot roast for not shutting my
eyes at the track right after making that
first win. He told me he'd fixed it so that
all had to do was to shut my eyes tight,
even when. ] wasn't in bed, and I'd see
thSwnner's name. 7 tried that the next
day Shut my eyes tight before each
race and saw the winner of each in those
| fourteen-foot-high yellow letters. 1 par
layed my bets that day and won three
million bucks
Some parlaying," I commented Must
have been you that stopped racing around
here then by the simple process of eating
the layers alive with your SYSTEM"
"Oh, no. L didn't stop racing-I didn't
want to do that he told me- II went
slow after tnat first day because I could
see there wasn't going to be any hurry;
my system couldn't lose. that was plain
only took nineteen millions away from
see the game stop. you see. 1 wanted to
protract the fun of getting it ALL"
That was right said I. encouragingly.
quite right Jesse. jesso.
During the next three weeks" he went
on. II took seventy-nine millions away
from them, and then / began to feel sorry
for them. So I went to England to work
my system there. The green chipmunk
had told me l could go to England and
it would be all right. Got there in time
for the Liverpool summer meeting Hard
losers. those British bookies. After I'd
taken 42OOO,0OO pounds away from them
the first day they began to make cracks
about bally stoopid Hamericans with fool
luck. So 1 went to Epson Downs the
next day and took 100000 guineas out
Of the ring just to keep In practice"
why pounds at Liverpool and guineas
at EPSON Downs?' I asked him, but he
was too deep then in the swing of big
figures to hear me.
well" he went on. II saw that there
wasn't much coin in England-hard
times. agricultural depression, and all
that-and so I went to FRANCE where the
fall meeting at LongchampS was begin
ming just as I got there.
Barred From .Longchamps.
Now would you believe 1t. when I'd.
won only a trifie Of four hundred and
thirty-four millions of francs on the first
day nv parIay wing INV first 5O0 M franc