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Show Turf Plungers Are Impassive Heavy Bettors Aro Usually Prone to Show Their Feelings by Look Or Word. Did you ever observe the varied changes of expression on the faces of prominent men who own and place their money on race track horses during any of the leadlnr races of the season at Shcepshcad Bay, New York, or other famous race tracks' of the country? It Is a most interesting' fetudy rtt the time bf a great race, Indicating whether wheth-er the men are losing or winning small or large fortunes, or that they arc hopeful, doubtful, despairing and yet sanguine. This panorama of ever-changeable ever-changeable expressions of turfmen on the occasion of a big race on the track In always obGervable to the keen scrutinizes scru-tinizes Seated on a high stool with a surging mob of bettors around him, you may find every day at the Sheepshead Bay i ace track a small, ordinary looking man with a cold blue eye, that can see more points In a thoroughbred than any other man would dream of. This Is Joe Yeager, familiarly known ns the "Boy Plunger." He Is round faced and boyish of aspect, and can plunge harder and faster on a horse ruce than anybody has ever plunged before. He Is the plunger of the season, sea-son, the successful turfman who cannot go wrong. Horses have won money Into the bank for him. They have bought land and built him houses and lots. They have stuffed his pockets with stocks and bonds. Around him as he counts his money after the races are a Bcorc or more well known turfmen who have lost small fortunes on races. Watch his face and note that Invariably yard wide smile, telling plainer than mere words that he has again won a small fortune, his favorite horse having won out ahead of the bunch of outdistanced competitors. It Is a smile much similar to that worn by that king of turfman, Harry Payne Whitney, when the latter counts his winnings by the thousands. He thows plainly an upper row of pearly teeth, and by his happy, pleasant disposition dis-position coupled with his liberality and generosity, spreads sunshine all about him. , , , Pittsburg Phil Is utterly impassive. Apparently he puts his money down and forgets it. Watch him now, the races being on. Isn't his face a study? The antics or the shouting thousands about him are meaningless. Those thousands constitute one type of mankind, man-kind, PIttBburg Phil another. Finally he wins out and pockets his winnings. |