| Show TURF EXCHANGE QUITS Salt Lakes Pool Room Shuts Shults Tip Up Shop t GAME G I FAILED FAED t i TO 1 PAY Y Yi EXPENSES WERE WRE MORE THAN T TRECE RECEIPTS RECE TS Various Gentlemen With Sporting Proclivities Tried Tred to Back ack the th In Institution Institution But ut They Al All Came Out OutOn OutOn OutOn On Wrong Wro g Side of Ledger Tony Tow Js Escapade Starts Stars Decline 4 The Turf Exchange which was started by a sport Tony Tow Towner Towner ner nor a few months month ago has quit busi business business business ness The Tho doors were closed yesterday afternoon the loud cry of the pool seller ceased to trouble the 1 e air and the sign board w s 1 pulled in Towner the originator of the ex cx exchange change chango made his getaway r some months aero aJro with a part Dart of ot the bank bankroll bankroll roll roU which he lie forgot for ot to leave so that those coming to work the next morn morning mornin ing in could have luwe coin oem to handle Towner was a genius in his way He succeeded in making suckers of gentlemen who are bv by the uninitiated to be above that He got a few gamblers to mit Dut UP Un his bank roll and when he fin finished finished finished with them they looked like lik thirty cents that had seen better days Towner Failed to Wear I But Towner last last He i wear Some of his friends said when he lie h left that Salt Lake was not noP a large targe enough town for his kind of operations Anyway he left and Smithy Benbrook 4 who furnished the th bank roll and who is isby isby isby 1 by nature a melancholy man seemed more melancholy that ever Then George GeorgeW W Jones Tones the caller at atthe atthe atthe the Salt Lake Stock Exchange took the management of the book Frank Moore who is the presiding elder eld r of the Lone Star club when Put is not in sight furnished the thc new bank bankroll roll A book on the races can not run without a bank roll and Moore wanted to feel how it was to be bean bean bean an angel Moore has hag had his chance but as asyet aset asyet yet et he has not reported his feelings But he has learned that there are not noten enough en ugh sports in Salt Lake to maintain seven regular gambling houses two roulette wheels wh eel fl a half dozen or or more poker games and a book on the races Salt Lake does pretty well as it is in inthe inthe Inthe the sporting line but when it come to spending between 50 and arid per day day in and day out to keep this book going she stand the rate The expenses of the Ute institution in have been about 55 per day That amount had to be paid before any dividends came in They were not expenses that could be piled up in debts Three men were employed and they had to have their money telegraph tolls on the re report re report report port of the races r ces had to be met and anel the stock exchange had a mean habit of demanding rent in advance Public Pu loses Interest When the California races closed some weeks ago the public lost inter interest interest interest est in the betting It had learned to know the California horses and how to bet on them with some judgment The average young man who spent some of his hard earnings at the book and flashed pasteboard tickets so that his friends would think him a real dead game sport had just got so that he le Could talk horse without making a p fool of himself among horsemen Thus when the Louisville races were taken up the play was naturally poor Then a switch was made to the Lake Lakeside Lakeside Lakeside side races at Chicago But there has been no improvement In fact it is said that the book has not only not made expenses but that the th bettors b have beat it during the past week it make malce a killing until Thursday for more tan han a week The two tw or three touts that have steered against the book must now go goto goto goto to other pastures and the other em employees em employees employees t Jones Tones will have a chance at other fields a good many wives who arise in the dead of night to burglarize their thir th Ir husbands nants Dockets will wm find more booty boot in them |
