The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-23
LONG SHOT DAY
At THE LAGOON
Only One Favorite Wins, but
Small Contingent of Players
Take Big Profits.
ENYI0US LOSERS WATCH
CONCEITED WINNERS CASH
Preferred Sympathy Spurned
and Jubilant Pikers Squelched
: With Great Promptitude.

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Loncshot day. with all Its attendant
woes and joys, arrived at the Lagoon
yesterday. Pawhuske was the only IA
rorite on tho entire card to win, con
sequentiy tho books got back some Et
the money that had been 'enporaF' pors Tho
prosperity of the layers, however was
sadiy marred by tho longshot brigade
which had It's best inning since the meet
Ing began. 80.
4 record crowd was present and eN-
hibitions OF primitive human nature were
given almost as rapidly as me sh'i''"e
views on a moving picture machine.
The sensations started promptly at tno
beginning when in the first race Sixteen
$50 called because he Is uSuaiS ~, aGput ;DporS y
won the five and "a half furlong sprint
Miss SLY had been the choice OF the pun
lie. but few spectators, utterly at e.,
teen, getting from to l To ~ 10 ior
their money.
Il ben watchin that Sixteen hoss all
along. said a stout man as he promptly
pocketed the roll the cashier had gwen
him for a ticket on sixteen. Dhen
none OF youse git down s,I;, on ,Ing,od MN with
contempluous pity in his question. but
the members OF the little group sh0ok
their heads and watched the pulge in AlS
vest pocket enviousy.
knew il was cinch an absolute
Another Think Coming.
A little man grabbed the big boastef
BY the collar and said with ominous
quiet:
You think one whole minute before
you have any real Information that SIX,
teen was going TO win: IL you did ana
yoq failed 10 {ell me: think I'm going
The BIZ fellows rubicund complexion
flushed and went almost white again be-
fore II returned to its normal redness.
and the other men nodded approVluSly
al the small man.
No, nobody didn't tell me nothn' at
all, but | had bunch. n,,.
That's ali right. then. said The httle
man. Il don; want your lunches, but
rntIl you pay me what you owe. don't
YOU go about plying other people be-
cause you picked a 10 TO ! shot when
they have played the horse that ought
10 have won.
The big man hurried away, in the dl,
invii" anyone to accompany him.
Elis behavior merely Illustrates the
trials that sane. prudent form players
except the fourth. which was won by
Gavori,e. Pawhuska. In the other races.
tine. fellows who by some freak Of fate
had happened to bet on the winner. were
insufferably concelted
OF course. the form players were en-
vious. but the eNasperating grin. coupled
Win z plying comment on Inc ignorance
OF anyone who had failed TO back that
particular iongshot. was almost too much
for weak human nature to bear.
They Knew It-Not.
Some OF the winners said they had
been watching Dave Weber ever since
visited the paddock just before the race,
the horse appearance was unmistakable
evidence that he could not lose.
This SORT OF thing went so long
that one Of the form followers when
ever he saw man with a grin coming
warned him thus:
Don't YOU show me no ticket on that
dog that got in first! Don't YOU do II.
] won't stand FOR il and moreover don't
care to associate with I man that was
.on enough 10 pick him
But he won. Lemme tell you how
ne couldn't losc.' pleaded the winner.
you'd never live 20 get through 1t. I'd
away and spend your foolish money but
femme telI you Judgment like that will
rever gct you anything again"
All over he betting ring li,tlc knots
Af.cr while the long shot winners
learned rot 10 Erin too naCch about their
winnings.
Il was nwfa!. though. and after the
last race some fellow that is proud be-
cause he knows the multiplication table
,n figured ;, out That Il any player had par.
prices obtaInable he WoulG have netted
just $4,000. The mathematician dissem-
jrAtca tEiS snfOTma1on tnTOCSn the train
until Inc was forbidden TO speak before
reaching the city.
The reason Rosano wo:; the second race
was undoubtedly because Woous or
Swageriator bumped into Dell. throwing
her completely on. of her stride. Woods
was warned by The Judges and was tucd
go for rough riding. Jockeys Bevau.
anderson and Fischer were also fined $40
each fcr the sarne ofiease. The judges
are determined To put end 10 the
rough riding that has been noticeable
the last few days.
Tn the third race Bcdwell's crack.
L,dge Quinn. defeated by Dennis
Stafford. The reason was probably be-
cause the track was SO slow. All the
tine made yesterday indicates the course
* from two 10 three seconds slow yet.
l'awhuslsas victory in the fourth race
was The only chance form followers had
:" emile. In the nfth, Dave Weber at
10 70 l. WAS the victor. and III the last
iace Chief Desmond AT TO /. got homo
first, Desmond though, was better
played than the other long price winners.
TO-DAY Is Davis county day when all
the residents of that county will be ad-
initted free. An extraordinarily good
card has been provided.