The Coolidge examiner., 1935-11-22
Let It Rain
BY HAL G. VERMES
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.

good up to six furlongs and we fig
ure to make ourselves plenty by
laying our cherries on our hides to
cop.
The best bangtail in our string
is a colt we christen Red Herring,
which is by Red Hot, out of Sweet
Sue. His only fault is that he's
swaybacked, though we find out
later it is his best point because
that's what gives him his natural
form to win.
One day we are starting for the
hotel after the fifth heat, even
though Red Herring is in the final,
when a shower suddenly blows up
and it rains holy cats. SO we stay
In the stand to keep dry and watch
the gallop. Harry the Pinhead has
the leg up on Red Herring and
Mudder McMork, Beezer BERTHE and
me are laughing out loud because
we know Harry hates wet weather
on account of he always catches
cold easy.
Of course the field is all dope
and we amt paying no attention
when Mudder, who is following the
pack around the clubhouse turn
with the glasses, gives a warwhOop
and reminds us that we got mai
den in the heat. We look and there
is our colt on the Bill DAILY and
leading the field by a length. The
rain is coming down in blops and
the track is as muddy as a sewer
ditch. But our hide is swimming
through it with a gallop that has
got it all over the Australian crawl
for speed. He skids around the
three furlong pole and when ne
goes for the wire, so help me, that
swayhack of his doubles up and
he slides for home plate in a Ty
Cobb whirlwind finish.
"Oh, man." I yells. I'VE got a
first-class mudder!" !"
Well, Harry the Pinhead sure has
cold after that and he goes
around snOrting and sore. He's
sick of the hides, he says, which
he always repeats when he has
chills and fever. He's through with
the turf, he adds, which also don't
mean nothing coming from him.
The only thing we are bothering
about right then Is that we got
ourselves real mudder and we
can win 81 chunk Of dinerO easy; all
we got to do is find out when 1t
is going to rain. However, we learn
that Is very difficult, indeed. We
goes by the official weather reports
q couple Of times and we enter
this Red Herring when the papers
say 1t will pour plenty. But it do
not rain and our mudder do not
cop by no means because he can
not slide for home on dry track.
And then Harry the Pinhead
comes back. The last time he
brought racing car with him but
now that is too tame and this time
he has a bright red mOnOplane to
play with. He knows how to han
die a stick from long ago.
But the track officials are very
tickled with Harry's crack Drained
airplane stunts, as 1t brings the
crowds, and they give him IA con
tract to do exhibition of dizzy fly
ing before the heats every day.
1t is now late October and the
season is about over. We been
praying for rain ever since we find
out Red Herring is first-clasS
mudder, but we are not getting re-
suits. 1t looks like we are not 90
Ing to win ourselves nothing at all
when the local weather man saws
we are due for a spell of rain We
are not 50 positive ourselves but
water is pouring down across the
country and on its way to this
oval on the leaky roof circuit where
we are.
This being our last chance we
enter our mudder in the first heat
on day which we figure will be in
the middle of the wet weather
Mudder McM0rk goes to a blond as
tr0loger for luck; Beezer Bertie
nails Il lucky racing plate over his
bed; and | buy the misSus another
P0meran nian, which always brings
me luck. Then we crack down ev-
erything we got in the world on the
nose of our Red Herring.
But it don't rain drop. Come
the day when our mudder is due
to cop and 1t still do not rain. This
is indeed no laughing matter. When
our stable bOOter gets into the irons
| am feeling so bad | have to kiss
Red Herring goOd-by.
Harry the Pinhead whirls around
the oval in his flying crate cou-
pie of times the bangtaiIs parade
to the post; and the sun is still
down terrific. look up for
dark cloud but the sky is wiped
as clean as new soup plate. We
are so very sad it is not until the
field is already on the home stretch
It.