Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-10

be shriveled by sarcasm. I s'pose you
t'ink now that because two or three O.
those sage-brush cayuses have skidded by
on your pickin' they're all goin' t. cop at
| q million t. one or SO t'day, WHAT
piled the picker. 'Anythin' you do is
| bound t. bring home tn borax. Spin it.
You're tn spinnin' cheese. Go roll it.
Look a-here. Teller. what dye like In
| this racer a lot OF the bunch players in
the room asked the dopist just then. They
didn't want his soreness on his mate. to
| interfere with his handing out another
possible winner at Ascot. They could see
| that it was his day and they wanted his
goods. They must. have developed lot
Of confidence in him to've asked him
that question. at that, for the fourth race
at Ascot was a match affair between
Lucky Baldwin's great Splinter Cruzados,
and another warm. but apparently out
classed sprinter named Americana. Cru
| zados was chalked up on the board at
impossible to 1 thing.
Well. they amt nuthin' to this but
Americana the dopist told the bunch.
still sulky, however. Cruzados is some
pound better'in tn other one in tn mud.
That's a weight rig that'n fetch Amer
icano home in q trudge.'
well. anyhow, they couldn't play Cru
dopist's bunch. a great many Of the gang
in the room went to Americana at z to l
until the pool room people cried enough.
The money looked soft but they'd been
hit too hard on the dopfst's picks already
to want to have a whole tillful on one
long-priced horse in two-horse match
race.
well, we'll keep off'n this one. that 6
ALL grouched the timid one of the seedy
pair. L amt goin' t. stick UP no ten. tn
hull works. on Cruzados t. win one bone
an seventeen cents or somethin' like
that. an O. course Cruzados is as good
as bein' cooled out already. We stay
81 don't care where tell v stay, y
lard-lid, sullenly replied his buddy. 'Th'
mex time I go out with you and mace a
ten off a mark an then try t. run it up
THE interruption right there came
when the operator began to call off the
match sprint between Cruzados and
Americana. Cruzados. as customary with
him, led by disheartening gap to the
stretch. Then the stable boy. who'd
been put on the horse with the idea that
thus rugged the layers might offer price
against the Baldwin crack, took it into
his monkey head to draw the finish fine.
icano took advantage of the move. He
drew alongside Cruzados at the sixteenth
pole, and the boy on Cruzados couldn't
get the big horse going again in time.
Americana copied the race by face 1t
sounded like old times in the Chicago
and Covington rooms to hear the howl
Of delight that went up in the St Asaph
room then. Scores Of the bunch had
gone to the seedy picker's selection, and
the room got a memorable singing
Right then the timid one began to show
signs of weakening, but he was one Of
these glugs who hate to own up. How
ever. when 1t was called off that Amer
icano had won he nudged over to his
no nd COL tn }r1.
see ye're gittin' break by hog luck.
So II there's anythin' in tn fifth race that
looks t you like it's got a chanst-and
looks to me tn same way-why. I'll go
to it,
THE picker was so intent upon watch
Ing the board marker putting up the
prices for the fifth race that he didn't
even hear what his doubling companion
was saying. When the board marker
ton. at the bottom Of the list, and chalked
up 60. 20 and 10 against that one, the
dopist. with squared jaws and hard look
in his eye, turned to his timid matey.
Hey, you, gimme that sawbuck! he
demanded hoarsely.
What fur? asked the other, stub
bornly.
CT play haws WITH replied the dop-
list. Gimme that notev
"T'n give y nuthin' till know what
hawss you're goin' to- play pigheadedly
replied the other.
'Bingo! The doubling one of the seedy
pair caught rap on point Of his Jaw
that sent him spinning. half-dazed. 20 the
floor. Then the dopist leaned over him
and pinched the ten-spot out Of the fallen
ones vest pocket. With the sawbuck in
his hand he made two leaps of it to the
counter and bought ten dollars worth of
Celebration at 60 to 1 straight.
Here's q flash on Celebration! sang
out the operator half a minute after that
first ticket had been bought on that one.
price had been flashed down to to 1, and
the poolroom people we're refusing to take
another penny on him. In the meantime
the punched pardner of the picker had
up behind his mate with big iron spit.
toon In his hand. The dopist- wheeled
just in time to dodge it, and then he
grabbed his f1ghting-mad pal and they
clinched and punched and rolled around
on the floor. They were still rolling
around when the operator called off the
finish of the race. Celebration. a good
thing that had been in brine for months.
sailed down to the tape like an ice yacht
crossing the line.
Celebration. ee-ee-easy. by five
lengths" chopped out the operator, and
then the two seedy ones. who up to that
very instant had been fighting all over
the floor. suddenly let go of each other
Hey, did Celebration cop? eagerly
inquired the timid one of the fellows
who'd gathered around to watch the
scrap
Buck jumped. was the reply
"'Well that's diff'rent,' said the doubt
ing one, grinning and applying a very
much soiled handkerchief to his bleeding
nose. That's a helluva sight different,
and he grabbed his dopist pal, who was
also grinning all over his chart, around
the waist and they did a one-way-
waltz all over the place-after they'd
been trying to punch each others lamps
out only a minute before!
They collected their 500 and went
away from there with the Jingle bells
on. But il the 'fraidy cat of that pair
Of down-and-outers had only let his pal
alone from the go-off It's a shame to
think Of the wagons and things they'd
have had to hire to haul their kale away
from the st. Asaph poolroom on that
snowy, blowy night
Georgetown Will Hold Gym Meet.
Everything has been practically settled
for the holding of monster gymnasium
meet in the Ryan gymnasium George
town University, Saturday evening, No
vember 20. This will be the first of a
string that will take place periodically
throughout the winter, ending next spring
with a grand outdoor affair on the var
sity field. The second one will take place
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