The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-20

r. form Of entertainment. not
business venture and. OF course. the
only persons who take Il seriously
arc those who refrain from whist
ling on Sunday. II n few feeble
minded citizens ruin themselves
gambling. not even tho non-whist.
ling brotherhood cares boot. but
when tho gambler drags ono Of
them or his Innocent family 10 ruin
With him. then a cry goes Up.
My opinion Is that a man who f.
crazy enough TO try 10 make a
living Mt games OF chance Is men.
tally deficient. and IL denied horse
races or poker he will piny mum
bly-peg or shoot craps That sort
OF chap Is money mad and I'M
pressed with the notion that there
Is such thing In this world az
easy money. He wouldn't work
consistently at q Job II no had Il.
and II he had no outlet for his
gambling propcnsltIes he would en-
gage in a legitimate business. start
taking long chances and ruin 10
times the number OF people he
would ordinarily have ruined. when
no goes thru bankruptcy. I've
known gamblers in business who
wouldn't whistle on Sunday. and
most Of them were bankers who
fired cashiers for going TO the race
track on holiday and making n
two dollar combination bet. Just TO
DO devillsh.
Speaking Of race-traok plungers.
we had an assistant cashier in our
office once who was born and bred
in the blue grass OF Kentucky. He
was descended from long line Of
horse.raclng gentlemen who never
entered horse in a race they
didn't expect that horse TO win. and
who bet on him ms n matter OF
principle, holding that to enter a
horse and not bet on him was dis
honorable, as tending 70 deludo
ones friends who we're prone 20
back n gentleman's horse. Our
young assistant cashier was n
splendid boy. frank and generous,
and one bright day no received a
code telegram from his father. j,
contained straight inside informa-
| ton from tho man who slept with
the horse. and the sad thing about
( It was that our young man had no
money TO bet that day. However,
he showed mo the telegram. so
/ bet thousand in local poolrooms
and sent the boy there 70 make the
bet. figured that II won I'D
give tho boy the winnings, because
III had sneaking impression he
and ono OF our office girls were
engaged 10 be married
well. not satisfied with putting
mo next to the good thing. the
young man was foolish enough q
slip the tip to skinner. who fired
him on the spot and before he
could even tell him the name OF the
horse. The boy came 60 me, much
perturbed. and / told him to get
out DuL 70 fDlu HiHioIh ~ i'"NiiNot
10 receive telephone call from
Skinner.
Then 4 started in on skinner
and by the holy plnk-toed prophet
inside Of five minutes had sold
that hypocritc the idea that, moi
only would II be worthy and
plous idea for him 10 bet on that
horse, but II would also be n grand
/ investment. assured him ] had
straight tip from friend. that
nothing but n broken leg could
keep US out Of the money. that the
horse had proved himBelf the fast
est thing in the world for the dis
lance. in his private tryouts NJ the
breeding farm. and that only q
fool would pass up this incompar.
able piece Of pic. The odds were
certain 10 be 20 70 ono. and prob.
ably much more. Skinner wanted
10 know n had climbed ABOARD
and ] showed him my tickets. ~
with n sigh he gave me check
! for-no, not n thousand dollars
but ten thousand This sum
! Immediately wired on 10 the hon
orablo father Of our late assistant