The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-07-01
A Bit of Interesting History
of the American Turf Up
to the Present Year-Tom
Shaw Ready to Give Up
the Ghost.
DROPPED $75, 600 THE
PRESENT YEAR
BY Robert z. Collyer.


nal is flying high in the layers divi.
sion Fast and West The bankrolls
of the "big liners have been flattcn.
ed on, until they are not discernablc.
Locally. several of the more preteni.
ious "rooms, where they accept a
$4,000 commission with the same non
chalance as they would a 81 bet, are
hanging on the ropes and ready TO give
up the ghost. Reliable reports from the
East, are of a conhrmatory nature One
of the greatest examples in Tom Shaw,
who recently passed up the job. Shaw
went East with "big money Now
he announces Ia o+e and all that he Is
through and someone else is welcome
to the booking end.
In settling mis- obligations, Shaw, IT
is said, had to give cheeks Oh one of
his eastern repositories. From those TO
the elongated bookmakers land you can
20 gamble on this). Il is learned that
shaw dropped trifle over $4,000 on
the present season. True, it is that
shaw experienced many profitable
breaks" two or three lucrative sea.
sons aud has at times been reputed to
be worth $250,000. However, these
$4,000 iolts soon tear holes in John
ID. bankroll, hence it would seem that
there is good foundation for the rumor!
big Tom is hanging on.
.e hptn mi nd hat
the New Orleans "bookie' has had
more or less of metoric career. II
was only few years ago that Tom
was clerking for Barney Schreiber. Then
Barney got injured in the quake at
Frisco and Tom asked for a bankroll
Ia 20 il alone. Shaw asked Barney for
$1,000. and the versatile Dutchman
never tries telling of his reply.
"Vat me git you two thousand dol
lars" said Schreiber" Yer bati To
throw avayi Wy, my poy, you foodn I
last SO long as a minute Wit doese
sharks out dere. Bet me kouple of
markers Tom, uut nix on dat bankroll
business. -
To make long story short, Shaw
finally wiggled the roll out of Barney
aud that winter Cat New Orleans) and
won in the neighborhood of 100000.
lie then went east and astOunded the
"biv liners s'--l.itchcnstcin and others
---by his temerity. One of the stiffest
jokes. was the solar plexus wallop slip.
ped over by Davy Johnson-for $780,
900 on Chapultepee.
The panhandlers and hangers on new
er tire telling of the episode, how John
son said "Ill bet you $1,000 on Chap
ultepec."
"Any More" quericd Shaw.
IN bet you $4,000 more at the same
figures"
Fifteen thousand to $4,000" Shaw
called out. still the odds remained the
same.
damn you, IN just give you $4,000
more said Johnson.
"You r on said Shaw.
Now see here johnson - said Shaw
"how much do You want to bet' Come
set in the works.
That will do, replied Johnson. 81
now have 100000 on against $4,000
l. that right"
"It IN" replied Shaw. II is a matter
Of turf history that Chapultepc won
shaw struck the toboggan, during the
winter meeting at Jacksonville. Down
there he picked oil about 5000 worth
of ounces before he got Hector to
few of the angles, When he got wise
the gates were closed. That Is the story
OF the "big layis" who have beer
successful during the present season
..a haya yvnn nnita Al lnueh M Chi