Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-05

against him? About ten minutes before
, that race-and l had 100 to on my ate
against Princelet, with no buyers-a lit
lie Sawed-off snoop OF district messen-
ger KID in Uniform wabbled up to my
stool and slipped me an envelope The
enNelorc was addressed to me, and il
contained ten-dollar bill and a note
signed by a man I'd never heard of be-
= re- he note reQues ed me to place the
$40 on Princelet at whatever price l was
laying at The moment the kid handed me
the enveloEe. The kid would wait Tor an
answer-that is to say, he'd wait till
a1ter the race. ] had my sheetwriter
scrlbble the S1.J00-toS1O Princelet bet on
the sheet and the kid, who seemed 70
know the contents Of the envelope he'd
brought me, wandered off to the lawn to
view the race.
''Princelet made the rest of his field
look like the component parts of an
onion omelette soffie puffed Qp with
dynamite yeast. and I'd taken in about
500 all TO d. on the other crabs in the
joust to Offset that s1,5GO-to-$1o ticket or
Princelet. And | was the only glue in
the rim to take any STRAIGHT Princelet
coin: the rest of the rinesters had only
penci'ed q. hit of the show stuff for the
dollar marFsmen, and Tom Mannix had
got all If his on by prearrangement with
i the New York pOolrooms.
/ didn't care to let any MESSENGER kid
have sl,J10 in = bund e, and SO I found out
from i'm whore could find his nan the
next day ard tod the kid to tell his man
7 that the bet went and that I'd dig him III
/ in the morning. l sprung him all right
the reXt morning and eased him the
+ pa. erS He -"as smart young penp ssh
er in the Treasury Department. and lie
was bendns over a desk covered with
ink when L found him.
! cit seems that on the night before the
Pri2celet race he'd heard me kidding Ton
Manaix in hotel lobby about Princelet
Mannix's worst counterfeit. And m.
kidding of Mannix had been the penpush
ing boys hunch-he'd made up his mine
then and there to see if he couldn't ii,
a can to one bookmaker's theory about
an alleged race horse. Having no chance
to make the track himself, he'd sent tn,
messenger boy out, and SO there you be
AGuIticnasIy, was The only crop mut
| n the Bennng ring on that Gwynn
thing that sloshed by in the soaked sane
with the century thing chalked agains
him couple OF years before Bennint
closed. Gwynne Tompkins. the trainer o
jumpers, got me in the beg on that one
|. had the prices up on the race whel
! Tompkins swung along looking for thu
Best he could get on the favorte, which
| was chalked at TO . or some sucl
figure.
! Hey. Gwynne. talking about Roquefor
and things i called after him. here
one. and l pc nted out the name of hi
iOD to l namesake at the top of m,
late On, l got myself into that mess al
right.
'Em-m. ye'eh, said Tompkins. comm,
back TO my stool. Fine. Nice pric
against my namesake firkin o lard. eh
I'll just take ten each way across tn
plank on that, MIR. kidder. just for TIL
sake of seeing you worry a little
''Tompkins hadn't an idea in the worl
chat Gwynne would finish before the fol
lowing Wednesday, but he was one O
those fellows that hate to be strung, an
when he passed me the three sawbuck
had TO register him 81 900 to SO {
win. 500 to SO a place and 500 TO 81
bird against Gwynne.
We'll, they were off, and CiWynn
h'isted skys'ls and royal stuns'ls at tn
top OF the stretch and came into nor
! like a Bath-built teaclipper that's race
/ II the way from Yokohama around tn
, Horn to Fire Island with every stitch Sc
and the lee rail awash.
+" Er-uh-taiking about Roquefort an
things said Tompkins to me when h
,, dropped around a couple of minutes late
, . TO collect. there's one and he pointe
!, to the mud-caked Gwynne being led ou
TO the paddock to be cleaned off,"