Show WINNING V G TIP TIPON ON WAITER V ITER M Han From ram Country Countr Visits Races and ad Plays Play in i an ai a Approved Approve Manner Maer Chicago Inter Iter Ocean New York Aug 30 11 I had a very laughable experience during d this meet meeting ins ing in said sad a bookmakers clerk at the Brighton B Beach track to a party of ot friends the other night on the way home in the trolley You y see se e wIes folks live lve I up the state and generally g erly once or twice during the th year some of o o them come comedown comedown comedown down to pay ay us u a Visit Well Wel here her a of weeks week ago ago rny my I Y came down on business bu nes and ad bright and early ealy one morning bobbed up at the th house houe and announced to me on the that he was going ging to the th track with me meI meI meI I like the idea ide much for my wife was wa opposed to such a plan and often of n told me so Still I saw aw no way out of of it i and made mae up my mind to maKe the best beat bet of a bad bargain and take the old gentle gentleman gente genteman gentleman man oft of with wih the te promise that he would woul never toll tell tol that he had been ben there with me We e had no trouble troubie in getting away awa for the old gentleman helped matters maters along by b telling my wIe wife a whopping lie le right at the start bout about having business to attend to that tat would keep kel aim nim away all day long Having Raving faith in her lathers fathera fathers honesty my wire wie swallowed this th and ad we started off of together tether On my way wa down my asked me so s much about the horses that I were to run rn and how to go about the placing of a bet that I half hal suspected tt he had some som other motive in Ia view than t a mere visit to see the races res run rn I 1 hinted as a much to him but he pre pretended pr tended tende not to understand me and I had to doo dOD the subject subject When we finally faly arrived arved at the track I fixed fed him a s od seat got him a and told him to stay right there so 80 that if it I got a chance to get away for a few lew minutes I would know kow where to find lind him Thus fixed as L I i for a nice nic afternoon I left lef him film hm and ana went down dow to work Things got real busy in short order and I 1 soon forgot or ot all al about my charge In the grand Errand gand stand when I was reminded of him himin himIn himIn in a a funny way One Ona of the messengers who place bets came cae to my m stand handed a no bill bl to be placed on a horse called Watto Va saying as a he did so that tat the old hayseed who was making the bet bet was on the te worst kind of a dead ded one The reference to the hayseed brought back bak to tom my mind my law although at the te time I did not in any anyway way connect him with wih the mes sues messengers messengers remark The bet I recorded called cled for to o 10 0 mid and ad I smiled for I agreed agee with the tho e messenger that tha the horse was a dead ne ag a he be had called calle it The race was run mu rn and ad Walter simply played plaYe with wih his field feld and won about as ashe ashe s she he pleased Sti Still this fact worry wor me much mch except that our book only had ha that one bet to pay on o Waiter and I said sid to myself Ill Il have a a chance now to run rn up and see how the old gentleman genteman is get getting getting getting ting ting on The boy soon turned up for the themore money more and alter after ater having hang some ron fun with wih him about he the Hayseed d whom he thought picked dead ones I went in search of my I just reached the stand std in time to see the messenger hand him the money I had paid P id to him hl only lf a a few minutes before I was s dumbfounded u u I and showed it i clearly but the old man only grinned and cear said sid I r couldn t help that slide Charley Charle everybody was ask asking ing tag me to play it i and I thought I would and Im Im d dd d glad gla I did for that wilt will vl fix ft things up real ral nice at home this winter when things are slack slack Even after all al this I was wa s at a loss to understand just what he was wa driving at for I couldn t imagine the old gentleman genteman playing horses hores I took tok him down to the stand with th me and ana there he explained how I after I left he be e walked around the stand and met a number of colored men all al of whom he described as being very ver polite to him h m and he said that every one of them came caine cae up to him and in a nice friendly fredly way said Walter Waiter Waiter Waiter sir Now SNow I read that little book bok you gave me Charlie said my m and knew that a sad horse named TV Waiter Yater alter was going to start and I thought that as all al those men were kind enough to tell ten me about it why I would 29 a bet just once I was vas as Quite anxious to learn lern who the kind colored men were and amI when I took him back to the grand stand he out several of them to me and I near had a fit ft They were waiters waler and had held him up just as they would any other man ma with their Waiter waiter sir I told him who the they were and what they thEY were and what they were there what tey for fot but it I was wa some time before I could convince him of the truth Finally he e eben began begia ben to see se through the whole thing and we both th had a good laugh laugh Bright ad J morning Ing go my r started d b c and Ill Il bet by this time he has hah hs sorted a a nOw new n w barn bar or something of that sort with the 0 he be won on the tip tat the kind d colored men gave him him hi |