The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-20

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Ming 70 strike twice IN tbs same place
| took chance on Invader, and the
! price against the colt shortened a 1T
tie. But hs went to the post a rank
| outsider
When FitEserald dropped his mas in
this race about the same spectacle
mat was enacted in the previous con
test was reproduced The despis-d
| nothing but throw dust and clois Of
| earth In the eyes Of his more fashion
abiy considered rivals What invader
did TO Tommy Wadden in that race
was sin and a shame He made
| show OF him. invader won, pulling
| up by half dozen lengths.
such roar went IN when he passed
before or since al Morris park n
beat anything known on METROPOLITAN
handicap day Here was case OF an
by the same man. tra!nelbv the same
man. ridden BY the same nov. vlnnine
| on the same day in consecutive races
and comparatively few people betting
on them.
few dollars be, on Belle strome
and parlayea on invader meant a Tor
tnne Ten dollars put on Belle Strome
wonld mean $50. The. $50 bet on In
Il was ar opportunity of a lifetime
Everybody wanted 10 know how much
Lam the man who owned the horses
had won Everybody supposed he had
cleaned up the betting ring Bul there
was no sadness noted In the batting
ring. None Of the bookmakers wore
mourning
Soon IT became known that Lamar
II was inconoeivahic but II was fact
The papers the next dav told the
story OF the, two remarkable races
That closed the incident, and II wasn't
long before the sensation about Belle
Strome and Invader subsidized Belle
strome was heard of again. aud in
good COMPANY In fact. she developed
into cracking good nliy. Sydney
Paget buying nc, later for James e.
Hasgin But Invadernevor was worth
n continental from that dav to this
He was a race horse that first dav on
the turf. but he had hardwork keeping
out OF his own wav thereafter Once
in third in race but it was against
lot Of no-accounts. and his sole
ella i'm 70 fame viii ever rest on the
fact that he won that frstday az Nor
rs Park ar long odds.
In the rooms Of Alfred NJ Lamar in
the old Consolidated Exchange Build
ing there was great JOY the morning
after the race. but only for short
time. When Mr. Lamar arrived there
was nothing but deep gloom The
clerks who had good there early had
had won a fortune II was rot long
after Mr. Lamar arrived that they
knew the truth And from that day
Ills horses Could COZ not Win" vim or did not
win The mining situation in Alaska
became worse and worse Trouble IN
Ohio became more acute The stock
market. too, seemed 10 become easier
and easier--to the public.
Whatever possessed Mr.. Lamar to
let those two horses go by without
has been explained There are va
rious persons who date his III for
tune from that very. Friday. the 18th
Of May, 900. Day after day and week
a Eri NJ Mt
deeper and deeper into the financial
hole. He resorted TO various efforts
was carving him down. but it was no
use In November he failed for sew
er.l hundred thousand dollars. The
Offices in Harlem. Forty-second Street
the second floor OF the Consolidated
Exchange were mnbbed hy women and
ket but wrong as to cash They We're
winners but they couldn't collect. And
they were ca ger 10 get hold of MIR
Lamar in the hope of extra,::ng some
thing from him He had disappeared
and was not seen again for a year
end half or 50. He went to Mexico
back he was arrested The consol-
dated stock Exchange expelled him on.
technical charge of failing TO APP
rear TO be tried for obvious fraud. \
charges against him in the criminal
courts of making way with United
'N'a''S s1ttfi SHEIfS, ana Il woman Gus
toner accused him ct hyrothecatin5
600 shares Of American Malt;
/ He managed somehow TO get out Of
this trouble: but everything tangible
he possessed went by the board His
horses we're sold and he became only
memory, ghost on tho turf and
In Wall street There are lots more
like him Probably it would not have
made any difference to him eventually
II he never had ventured on the turf.
but he always had that one thing to
remember-that he could have made
an immense fortune if he had only
played his own horses on that FRIDAY.
haY l3. 1904 fIe missed the one
great chance of hts life He considers
II his fate ALWAYS TO be unlucky on
a Friday and doukly so on the 18th
few months ago two young men
were lnnchinE in Broad street
restaurant One was sharp of eye.
oleau-cut and had the hall mark of
prosperity. He is junior partner in
one OF the most active houses in Wall
Street One of these days he Is e?--
necte1 10 be q big fiEmre IN the Strani