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Show ill II- BECOME A (IK OF THE William A. Doming, a New York Newsboy, Invests in a Race Horse. , Tribune .Special Sporting Service. XEW YORK. Sept. 29. William A. Doming, a newsboy, was selling papers at Ninth street and Fifth avenue, Brooklyn, when he told of his purchase pur-chase of a race horae and his ambttiou to become a figure" in the sport of kiugs. r(got my horse now,' said the newsboy, news-boy, "and you wait till the flag drops with him lined up thore with the starters. start-ers. IIo '11 be a lead-pipe einch, and tnc money goes on him to win. No place and show thing for Denting. ''What have- I named him? Well, you see, he is by Kinlcy aclc out of Blegy. T may call him Alt-Elegy, but I don ', know. ' ' Admires Graunan. Doming has alwayn been ambitious to be the owner of a riming stable. Riley Graunan was once a newsboy and became a national figure on the turf nnd a plunger. Doming wants to follow in Granuan's tracks up to (ln timo that Grannan got to betting the wrong wav and went broke. frc began making judicious bets several sev-eral months ago, and luck was with hint. Then ho bought his oolt for S3()0. The colt rail be in racing condition next 3'ear. "In the meantime I will eell papors and make the coiu to feed hiw," said Dcming. Doming 'has utft .decided yet whether he will race under his own colors or not. Before he ctin onter his horse under un-der his own name ho must get permission permis-sion from the Jockey club, lie believes ho ciui gpt this, in spite of the fact that ho is only a newsboy and (hat he wjll Imve to compete with such men as the' Belinonta. Whitney, Thomab and other multi-millionaires'. |