The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-16

equine family trees with sepuI-
chraI laSsitude that OverwheIms
newcomers and Initiates the initi-
ated. He is always much too abb
sorbed in his topic to consider the
effects. A customer will say Mice
day" and Antal is certain to dis
regard him totally. Racing tai
alone will evoke the CLINT of intelli
gence, the stream of information.
Antal asserts he has never been Il
race or near racing stable him
self, although Gabori claims to have
taken him on a weekend trip Il
Saratoga. Gabori goes into realisti3
details which picture the expert al
losing his shirt to the bookies, ant
breaking into rending sob when
ever the whip was being applied
Antal admits and boasts of crying
over passages like the one out o.
Dostoyevski, but denies ever havins
witnessed such scene.
I'D down-murder anybody who'd
try It,"
There are rotogravure pictures o.
zev and Equipoise tucked into hi
mirror. Racing forms on the chairs
Files Of three or four racing period
icals on the shelves. Sam Lung
doesn't mind. "Sam, he's bugs" An.
tai says; "he try to make hair tonic
out of olive oil and all kind minera
water. A WORKOUT broom he will
grow hair from"
-FOUR of the scrapbooks are made
l up of clippings of Crusader, Gal.
liant Fox, Phar Lap and Equipoise
Clippings of all kinds. Notices OF
shipment, straight news stories
magazine articles. Antal adopts {
horse and follows its fortunes until
retirement. You'll find every phase
of these four topnotchers' careers
covered in those books. Straight
lines are ruled around each clipping
with curlycues in the corners. Once
or twice an item has been mislaio
and he filled in the news in his own
handwriting. To-day Phar Lap, the
Australian wonder horse, was landed
on the West Coast. He will come n
East for race. He is a big horst
Once my watch fell out Of my Goa
pocket and Antal picked 1t up an
placed 1t on the cash register. Late,
he took it and held it in his palm
after the manner of a stop watch
and let his eyes circle around the
shop. Good" he said, Fine. Take
MIN in now"
He never placed a bet on horse
though he seems sound in his pre-
dictions. Several people testify to
the fact that he picked Jim Dandy
over Gallant Fox in that 1901 race
through the mud.
Or take that crush he had ON
Phar Lap" Gabori said while the
clerk was whipping lather. "He
wasn't himself for weeks VIXEN
that horse kicked off. Look at the
black border around the picture.
I swear he cried into the shaving
mugs. Think of a guy with a wifi
and four kids worrying about nads
without betting on them. Wei
shaving mug" to Antal, what q.
you think of horses in Gcneral?"
More than of you"
"Why don't you think of your
family" Gabori said, "why do you
waste your time with that stuff?"
mot a waste of time"
1T is, too. Why don't you open
a shop of your own and give your
kids break?"
Sam isn't making more money
than / am" AntaI said, she don't
make more than SIS week. Don't
talk about my family. Think
want to hear about them? Think
hang around the corner waiting for
results because I want to go home
and see them there? Was YOU
ever in my house? Why don't you
come over tonight and see If you
would want to think about them?"