The sun., 1910-02-20

JoWOu IeilOW WIN tne Drown DERBY ana
gray overcoat is not a policeman, neither
ls he a prizefighter. He's a politician
and used to be an offlceh older. Somehow
ne always found time to visit the race
tracks and bet heavily on horses sup
posed to be owned by him, and some Of
them won at long odds too. His brother
used to be a racetrack official and his
father was at one time hackman who
got hold of track for almost nothing
Detore the racing game was mint. When
the old gentleman died he left a large
fortune and the sons have been on Easy
Here's one OF the best known con men
that walk the Great White Way, and the
funny thing is he never gets into trouble
why? Because he never takes desperate
chances. Yet he's always on the lookout
for boobs
Hes operated in London, Paris. Berlin
and Cairo and is well known to the police
here. Last summer he came within an
ace Of getting into the tolls when he took
, a rich farmer into a gambling house and
fieeced him out of so 900. The rube made
, a great holler when he found he'd been
stung and went down TO Mulberry street
, to tell the bulls about il, but this smooth
person waited for him and without a word
OF explanation handed back the dough.
!. His best game is TO induce some soft
mark with money to 20 in as part owner
OF gambling Joint. He gets the easy one
to put up half the bank roll and then has a
conf ederate come in and lose bunch
That gives the dupe real confidence and
soon another pal looms up with u winning
play at the wheel that wipes out the house
There's no comeback to this slick game
and it's been worked successfully doz ems
OF times without a squeal
RENE ember the time when that quiet
looking. well built man was famous
ball player. 1t was more than thirty
years ago that he set New England
town afire with his wonderful pitching
that practically won the pennant He
played on some big teams in later years,
but right at time when he had mana ged
a winner and was able TO command
salary Of $4,000 a year he SURPRISED the
baseball fans by retiring to become a
lawyer.
you see, he'd saved his money while
on the diamond and had studied hard to
enter the legal profession, so that when
the time came to begin practice at the bar
baseball had no further attractions for
cases and won many interesting suits.
He still follows baseball and knows the
game like book He's also one of the
best golfers on the links.
Talk about ball players. do you know
this fellow with the curly hair and light
mustache? Probably not. because he
figured long ago. His parents died when
he was in preparatory school near Bos-
ton and he went to Harvard for the pur-
pose OF playing ball. He didn't study at
still had the ball fever and induced
na'u ger OF a major league team TO take
him South.
-He paid his own expenses too and was
willln z to buy place on the team, but
the beartless professionals decided to
have fun with him and when they got
him on the diamond at the training camp
they made his life miserable. They made
him work like horse running after fly
balls and they put him behind the bat to
catch without gloves or mask. In a
week he was fit for the hospital and wanted
to come home.
The players wouldn't let him go.
They hid his valise and clothes and made
him wear a uniform even in the hotel
and at night they put sand in his bed
and kept him awake with their card games.
When he got back to town he declared
that he had had enough of baseball, and
though he has plenty OF time ON his hands
and lives ON an income he cannot be in
duced to see a game anywhere.
you may well call this good looking,
soldierly person a Beau Brummel! He's
a product of the East Side and is a hench-
man of a big politician but he's polished
and a Chesterfield because he's been asso-
ciating with the big bugs. He used to
manage prizefghters and also ran a big
boxing club in the days of the Horton
law. but his political backer soon de-
cided he was fitted for better things, so
snap and then another until the Bowery
turned green with envy. Not long ago
he was summarily removed from Office
and his rundown was further proof OF
the passing of one Of New York's famous
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