The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-09
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By JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, May 81 do not
IN need any one to tell me that
the practice of gambling is vicious,
sordid thing. and that people who
bet are shameless characters fated to
no good end in this idealistic world
but when a fellow goes to bed, as
a fellow sometimes inadvertently
will, and dreams he is at the track
and a stranger comes up to him and
says bet on so-and-so in the nth,
and so-and-so gets away running
and wins from here TO the salt
washed shores of Bombay
say when fellow does that and some
hours later at the breakfast table between
the bromo settler and the black coffee he
notes in the morning paper propped up
against the Ice water pitcher that So
and-so Is entered in the Derby and the
odds on him in the winter book are fairly
attractive.
Well. I say a fellow is a sucker II he
doesn't call up Jake and get a little bet
down because YOU never can tell how
these things will work out and tip that
comes to YOU through the troubled haze
Of an undigested welsh rarebit is Just AS
likely to prove authentic as not. if not
more so.
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"THILE I am not exactly what
w you might call avaricious, /
do not believe in protecting my in
vestment, and for that reason / do
not feel disposed to reveal the iden-
tity of my dream steed on which
/ have twenty smackers riding. 1
mean to say 1 can not afford to
start a rush on the books which not
only might reduce the odds and
thus discourage further investments
on my part, but which might lead
TO INSCRIPTIONS manipulations by
professional sharpsters designed to
interfere with the normal running
Of the race.
OF oource a day or so before the Derby
shall make known the name of my
steed so that my thousands of admirers
will be able to share in the plumber. In
withholding the name of my beetle for the
present / do not wish to appear selfish.
II is not often that one gets information
from the celestial feed box and when one
does a certain discretionary silence is ad-
visable because as I say there is always
danger of fraud and deception in PROPOSE
tions Of this sort.
Before sending the dough in ! had in
tended 10 consult dream analyst, but on
reflection / decided this might be un"i1e.
To begin with it would be necessary TO
disclose the name of my goat and how
would 1 be able to tell that the dream
analyst wasn't bookie or a big operator
in disguise? Also there is the possibility
that might be touted off. and then what
would do for a yacht and cottage at
Southampton this summer?
BESIDES such a procedure would
ID not have been fair to the kind
ly stranger who stole through the
mists of my fretful sleep and gave
me the key to tabled wealth. Faith
fully now do I subscribe to the old
adage, never look a gift race boss
tip in the mouth. SO the money
is up, and when my plug comes
bounding down in front of Gallant
Fox and the rest of those buns at
Churchill Downs a week from Sat-
urday 1 will have plenty Of that
ready. and before leave the track
1 will go up to the handicappers,
the checkers and the system players
and laugh.
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OF course would feel more comfortable
II Earl Sande was going to have the leg
up on my airedale. Not that have any
serious doubts about winning. but I am
pulling for Sande to ride his third
Derby winner and thus equal a per-
Torrance that has been done only once in
the history of the event. It's a tough
break for him that he is to ride the
favorite instead Of my nag. but there is
nothing can do about it beyond ex-
pressing nv regrets.
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