The Washington herald., 1909-10-24
PUT FAITH IN PITZ
Sport Won $4,000 When
Bob Beat CO:bett.
ALL JEERED HIM AT THE START
Omaha sport Tells Story OF the For
tunes of a Fellow tOvvnsman TO
Those at RingsIde of Recent Kant
mRn-JohnsOn Bout - Cornishmau
Scored Knockout.

i never nudge Into a crowd punched
around Ia place where the fight By
rounds OF some big mill Is coming In that
/ don't think OF Skybuster sam seaton
OF our town" said an Omaha dead game
on the night Of the account OF the queer
ten-round scrap between johnson and
Kaufman was trickling over the wires.
The reason why always think OF Sky
buster sam on such occasions is that I
saw Sam getting crazy action on his coin
on the day OF the observation-disclosures
90 at Carson City
1T was impossible FOR him 10 20 out 70
Carson City 70 see the fight on account
OF sickness in his family. Most OF the
Omaha bunch who hadn't been able 70
beat It to Carson City 10 see the fight
for business or other reasons assembled
that afternoon IN an Omaha cafe where
they'd had a private wire put IN 10 get
the returns Sam joined the gang IN the
room about half an hour before the re-
turns were due to start coming in.
There wasn't as much as a dime OF
Fitz coin IN the room until Sam got there.
We had 81 all doped out that Corbett
would put the freckled one away in a
poke. and none Of US could see anything
but the pompadour end.
Real kidding Time.
so you can imagine what q kidding
Tine there was when sam taking a chair
way back IN the rear. clasped his hands
behind his head pulled his hat over his
eyes, and SAID:
NelL now wen watch sure-enough
prize fighter slap a hull lot O. button
holes into jumpin'-jack
Give you three and q half. sam for
couple hundred o. that said one OF
/ me gang standing near Sam.
Ion want II now replied sam. I'm
goin' 20 wait
IN Wait for what7' the gang asked him.
CT Tor your knock-kneed dub 10 get
slammed over the ropes2 ara Won goire,
TO him then with your bundle9'
Vince" the bunch around slzvbusfs-
sans chair would howl crushing his hat
over MS eyes 'HOw's that for your Willie
'oy and one Of the gang q pull Sans
sliIt out ~ the front Of his trousers and
sIdo al and unloosen his bow tie and an
mat sort OF foole-y Several m tbass
I AoFseplayers were people with whom San,
Aad got down his S. 90 worth ~ bets II,
tltzsimmous not long after the march
mad been made and that Of course go
lhem al the more reason 20 gloat.
All right sam would reply. with
never a. symptom Of crawfshlng. Won
then Wen see
Corbett lands heavily with his LETT On
titz nose, drawing the cIaret and ri-z
takes six seconds, the operator sang ont
during one OF the early rounds. Fit ar
pears badly winded
fee-oW- baUled one OF the bunch M
SamY '-ie i-o"'
On reckon III take bout a hundred
worth o. that quietly replied the S,-v-
buster, and he produced his wad. ana ne
suFe-tning man put Up his FIVE century
"o'ss' ana the stakeholder took possession
OF ne bundle and registered the BET.
from mat time on the stakehOlder. was
occupied almost exclusively in alzfnv ami
registering bets that the rest of ms IN IT,
room kidded sam into making With ms
'FltZ looks Ike he's al IN. the o-a-s-
TOT sang out during the seventh 0r eighth
round, and C0rbett IS landing on him IN
win ~
Wen. Tn there. sam. with little
piece o. eight 90 one. seem it's YOU one
OF the gang slapped at sam then.
1our ne on-Iu take 20 with O. that
was Sans placid reply: as placid as he
could make e. that Is. with a Iot OF In
dams mauling him around and rippIng or
the buttons OF his vest and playing ketcb
win his hat and all that sort OF thing
mat purity boyu git tired o. slarnnin'
d IN stone man he's up against pres
0-.-s, an lhen yolu see somethin' drop.'
The fellows elbowing each other o7T+
OF the way TO give Skybuster sam -, -
one against Fitz along toward the finish
inquired that II was like picking III. money
IN the street And so Sam pushed in his
entire *z,ON IN $50 and 500 lots on Fitz.
getting an average Of about nine to one.
StiII on the Job.
They were still fighting to stick their
century notes in Skybuster Sans face
when the suddenest hush that YOU ever
noticed IN all your born days for a sura
thing fell on that room You could bsva
heard fly on the ceiling scratching his
ears with his hind legs. Because. Won
see, the operator. with a queer. puzzled
look on his map, has just called out.
" C0rbett is knocked QUIT Fitz wins
-'-9- iaSleO Ipf Iully
thirty seconds. Then the gang Of us IN
the room looked at each other with silly
expressions and some OF US woke w
Then Skybuster Sam Seaton. the craz{-
est and yet the gamest bettor ever
brushed intO got up from his chair
Strengthened cut his rumpled buds. where
the sure-thingers had been trying TO pull
him apart during the hOrseplay. collected
his $4,000 cop-out. all made since the be-
ginning OF the bulletins. and then walked
down the street 20 where another stake
holder had 5000 more winnings 10 hand
him. this representing his early bets.
They called him 'Stay-With-It sam IN
addition to Skybuster In Omaha after
that. and that's one nickname that I