Show SOME GAME LOSERS How Most Big Players of the Take Their Losses Washington Star The lamentations of a German butcher in one of the markets who put puta a bet on my old horse Paul Clifford CUfford on one one of those days at the recent Ben Bennings Bennings Bennings meeting when Paul forgot to bring the kale home caused a lot of fun to the people who overheard the saddened said John Pangle the Washington owner own r of thorough thoroughbreds thoroughbreds thoroughbreds at Baltimore a couple of days ago The German butcher was standing close to me at the end of the stand on that day When the horse hOlse finished I noticed that he ground the huge knuck knuckles les of his right hand into his hi right eye and began to moan Then he pulled a big bandanna from his coat pocket and began to weep bitterly I blay dot Baul Clifford CUfford mit swan swancy swaney swancy cy ey fim tim all vot I in a of my mead shob und he ged peada a no he said and then he rocked to and fro and blubbered Aw give him a cooky the bunch who were listening to his lamentations jeered at him but he was past feeling the sting of any jeering and went right righton on weeping disconsolately dis That was the first case care ca e of ct the weeps that Id seen on a racetrack in a dogs age ge and the incident started me to thinking of how gamely most big play players player ers er cr of the horses take their losses when the big wallops come com their way I happened to be present pre ent at the breaking of a no Kentuckian who had owned a D half interest in one of the fin finest finest finest est thoroughbred farms in the blue blueglass blueglass blueglass glass country and had for several years raced a big string of good horses of his own and his partners breeding He was to keen to bet on his horses though and that was what spiked him himas himas himas as it splices spikes all of em in time First he had to sell out his interest in the thoroughbred farm to his con conservative conservative conservative g partner Then all of th the horses of the string reverted in tn the same caine direction ion and anti finally he got to playing the horses from the ground with a few thousands that he had saved sewed from the th wreck Oil Oi 0 1 the day that the great but erratic ic May Hempstead was beaten by Rush when May was at nt 1 to 8 in the my ny friend the K had his whole faggot a pat on the theMay theMay May girl He Hc thought that Miss s Ramp Kamp stead stend would Just waltz home homeI I was leaning on the fence alongside of him liIm when Rush cantered home kick kicking kicking ing mud In n May reproach reproachful ful tul eyes I knew w that he was all in financially and I suppose that I had a frog trog of ot sympathy in my throat for him Oh well I said gaid to him with a agrin agrin agrin grin that I felt looked like something enameled the th peach pea h blossoms are arC out anyhow and therell be fruit pretty soon goon for the asking He looked perfectly perky and cheerful and It any upstage Imitation work either with him im He pulled three 10 gold pieces from his pocket and studied them humorously Well I 1 know what Im going to do dohe dohe dohe he said to me as he jingled the gold coins j Im going to buy a couple ot 01 o nanny goats and sell the milk to in invalids invalids Ive got to tObe be in the ing lug business in some ome old way There any busi busl business business ness ess in that kind of a finish because he any kind of a man and two years later latH his colors were flashing again on the southern tracks with his own good horses to carry the boys wearing them You cant keep a beaver up a tree you ou see Eddie McAvoy the runt of a lad from Elkhart Ind md who when he was something under IS 18 ran a beanbag up to at the Hawthorne track in Chicago in 1897 went broke as s gamely as any trick I ever saw to for fot his age or any other age as far as con concerned concerned concerned Eddie began on the Hawthorne Ha track as a newsboy and gum seller and andone andone andone one day he put over ov r a shot with a fourbit that he had de do deposited posited with a handbook man outside the gate Then Eddie spiraled right along to the cone without a mistake fis ls as they say In Joplin He take picks tips handicaps or sug suggestions suggestions su but just clung unto the run running ru ning animals doped out and figured as winners by one E McAvoy esquire The result was that just three weeks after hed slid his thing over hed combed the pile up to Then of course his minute to make malte the mistake heaved along as it nearly always does He Re thought that th t Macy was a good horse Macy may have been a good horse in spots but he was wasa a and the spots were hard to pick Eddie McAvoy one day put his whole hole on Macy to beat the great old mare Imp and Macy Maey felt be before before fore the r d was over as if the lady mare maie had just gone away and hid from him out of pure devil devilment ment mentI I was WIS standing close to Eddie Mc McAvoy McAvoy rc rcA Avoy A voy when Macy failed fan d to connect The guiet quiet youngster spat reflectively at the grass and he trotted over to the stand of the boss gum man a couple o boxes box s o gum on tick said Eddie to the bos bo gum man and then he began to circulate among the throngs politely inviting them to purchase pepsin from him at the uni uniform unIform uniform form rate of 5 cents the package I Iguess Iguess Iguess guess that the spirit of the men inca who are now going to rebuild San Francisco Francisc Then I well weli remember the curious ease case of a man who only ohly thought he was broke Frank Buland Boland the Montana plunger Boland was broke a good many times during his career against the faro baik ba ik de and ard tho the horses but he was always so about it that have thought that he b really en enjoyed enjoyed enjoyed joyed going broke and he just throwing on the dog in the matter either This time when he thought he had got a big bump at St Louis was a entertaining incident Frank had in at the th Fair FairGrounds FairGrounds FairGrounds Grounds track at St S1 Louis with a wad that hed hoed out of the Hot Springs poolrooms during the winter But the Fair Grounds game him good He got the crosscut and the whipsaw from the running of the inaugural inaugural inaugural gural handicap and every time for the high thousands Boland know how to spell the word piker The boys boyson on ern the high chairs had Boland rocking long before the meeting began to draw to a close clone clo e but Frank went right ahead with ith a grin that c ul nt be erased One day the bookies noticed that Boland playing em at all and the joshed him about it He play playon on the next day either r nor for lor the next five days He just strolled around ar und with his hands in his pockets and permitted the joshing bookmakers to offer him the loan of a chew of tobacco or the price of ot a bottle of pop p pOn On the sixth day Mr Boland became suddenly busy busye e Th re was a grand old campaigner In one of the races named Siva and Siva was an thing Boland had twenty 1000 J bills blUR as the remainder of ot his package and hed been teen waiting for tor forthe forthe the race and for Siva He traipsed around the ring and got the price against Siva Iva for Then he leaned against a stanchion shucked peanuts and watched the race Siva ran second The bookies crowded around Boland with aith hoarse hoots of merriment his personality made him a favorite all aU over the west but he broke through the gibbering cordon and raced like a deer for the gate There hap happened happened happened to be a truck gardeners cart passing just as Boland got outside How about a ride into town mate Boland said to the driver and when the startled driver of the truck cart no noticing noticing Bolands fine raiment nodded Frank Jumped into the cart and took a d seat alongside the driver The scene acene was visible from the back of the grand grandstand grandstand stand and a roar went up from the themen th themen men inen In the stand who were Bolands friends II Hey H Y wait walt a few Cew minutes Frank one of them yelled to the Montana plunger and Ill carry you to town in my trap Ive done been beer trapped Boland called back and then the truck cart piled pied high with wih cabbages and things thing turned a corner corer with Boland in good natured an interested conversation with the driver Boland find out till ti he reached a St Louis ticker that instead of being broke he was worth just for forthe the horse that beat Siva a thing called caled Can galop was disqualified on of the riders rough riding and Boland Bolands pick was placed first He got back at atthe atthe atthe the books from then on and chased some of them as far as a the Arkansas river and beyond |