Show t f 1 i f V S JN IN theory fixing firing a horse race lace is the easiest 1 r then thing i in the he woI world Id AcI Actually Ac Ac- J I i 1 Mose r o 0 s see e Coogan 0 0 g n t r s z learned there are many elements ments in the problem q t 1 r 1 f and some of them all are a unknown un un- r- r r. r k kR known quantities Lily n R r rl 1 a. a i White with her educated 5 r 1 K hm limp and Dot Harris J 5 V r with his b track acI taught l P philosophy were two of B en t t the he chances l Mose l i o ose se had not o 4 E I k disc discounted 1 it irne 1 TY TV FRIEND A Al 1 Hayes Haye once Hayes once nce upon a time he was wan a n great jockey and the Mol Idol of the turf occasionally turf occasionally Inveigles inveigle me Into a w wager ger on the races I have acquired a certain philosophy In these matters Ino I Ino Ino no longer hope to win My be bev is laid with the mental 1 comment that the wagered ti money Is ie gone and if by chance it comes cOrnU back to me with other money added unto It then Wen that is clear cIeU and unexpected gain laIn But unfortunately that seldom occurs However ver I am content for tor if It Ala AIa advice wits costs Q me money Als Al's conversation has hu enriched my memory with events and incidents inci dents dente ts of strangely assorted flavors I had bad never heard of Lily White the Circus Horse nor of Moses Coogan who 4 owned her till UtI that day Al tame name Into my office his round little face BO so like that of ofa a very nry wrinkled cherub gleaming with Ugh High hopes He lIe looked about with an excess of caution leaned across my desk sad and nd whispered Slip SUp the string oft off the old B. B R. R bo be ati for fOl I got the lowdown on a rod that's to Coming out of pickle at Jamaica today You You dont don't say 1 I exclaimed Tell me about It Al Lily White in the fourth he told me I t picked up the Morning from fromI I my InY desk to look at the expert pickings for forthe forthe forthe the day clay Not one of tho the gave S. S Lily LUy White an outside chance She ought to be a price I remarked t trying to aPpear appear wise and wary Million to one Al whispered eagerly 4 and tand ab ly lute so lute ly sure BUre I got it straight from the owner Friend of yours 1 Yeah Teah Mose lose Coogan It f Moses which Moses which I inquired in mild mUd sur prise Al grinned He come by the Mos Mesa honest I guess he said But he be bor bor- borrowed 5 rowed the Coogan n from a ao a. cop or some t thing to And this Lily Lily Lily- I prompted He got her for a badge horse badge last summer rammer when everybody thought she ehe wa will was done for and the rest through the winter put her in shape She's been eating up the track in her ber works and now she's fit to n mizzle down the e stretch retch ahead of the best of em rem He might have been begging for his life he be was so BO anxious for me to share in the good thing I handed h him a 11 bill biU Place i this for me will you 1 and ana he be did And Lily White after aftel leading easily to the six six- furlong pole pole t It was a mile mUe ra race went race e went 9 dud den d lame and finish finished e d d. last Price spoiled It it said Al AI d disgustedly when he be wandered in next day I got cleaned ned myself i t. t I suppose Coogan lost heavily Al AI snorted Not him he be said ri Price Trice was only four lour to five fire Everybody J was WAS wise so he be had Dot Harris pull herup her herup herup He wouldn't up up at at the tha three V. V let her win at less n ten to one he says say r He Ie tried to get word to me to lay 17 of off of i it but he be couldn't find dad me JIle We puffed sympathetically at at our cigarettes ciga Iga- and finally Al AI rose wearily and made AS If to 50 lio t. t But well we'll clean up on her next time he lie promised S S Youre You're broke yon you say I asked and h he h be h e g grinned sheepishly When he left 00 was in funds again t. t I HAT T was my introduction to MOls MOl's Moss MOl s 's f I TH THAT Coogan and Lily White and since credulity Is my vice I ventured p bet on rr her ber nut next start and her next and her next Each time the price was short and each ellch time she ehe went lame at the three quarters quarten and d finished last Jast And so I lost my Interest but bu a n long time afterward when Lily White finally won a race tn race in a a way way way-I I heard beard from fromAl x Al At and from Coogan himself who himself who told rs very every one often often and and from the Jockey Dot Harris the interesting story etory of Coogan's Coogans s killing from the Coogan was under tinder n a handicap moment he be became owner of a race horse three kinds of men who under There Th are white men born south of stand land horses borses Mason Muon find and nd Dixons Dixon's line Negroes and Irishmen Scattering instances w who o understand outside V e these everything fi classes class Coogan in rule th the only KO Bo to prove e of his bill name was not an Irishman In that field of human endeavor most mOlt E closely related to horse racing namely the find finda waking making of books men of Coogans Coogan's race them a securer place and from among Coogan s sprang At a II eel certain His Ills be beginnings were obscure he be attached himself to the tarn tan age of the king of New York handbook are age ee and became a collector Ills His functions men he hea were these at noon or thereabouts began a II round of certain billiard rd rooms r ri stores atones and barber shops where h he he- e i clear cigar and memoranda banded bandied sums of money was vas Theoretically Coogan Coom then of It wagers delivered money and memoranda to his hla chief and the next day dal be he distributed amOD among bra bia patrons what money they might chance chanc win to It was at a simple system but capable of tn infinite variations variation Coogan for example r S' S r r r a a S 1 1 t 1 r t 1 soon Boon perceived a chance for profit for him self If It he neglected to notify his chief that he be bad had received a wager and if it the maker of that wager lost then Coogan could pocket the money If It the maker of the wager won Coogan would be forced to tomake tomake to tomake make up the deficit from his own funds fund But it is one of the fundamental truths truth in connection with horse racing that most horses always Jose lose and all horses u usually lose Coogan Coogen began to stand on the wagers banded handed him and anda a mixture of luck Juck I and canny mathematics well mathematics well after n a time he was able to branch out as a bookmaker on his own account And he prospered His nis first visit to a race track the irksome necessity of paying admission and the o opportunity op to avoid that necessity by buying for a song a It down broken-down thoroughbred and thus thug establishing himself in the status of owner soon brought him into possession Q of Lily White Dot Harris did the rest Dot Harris was a n skillful but indiscreet jockey On one or two important occasions he had casually neglected to carry out the instructions of the man man manfor for whom he was riding As a result engagements were few tew and far tar between When he happened on the stable where Lily Lill White was waa housed one day and saw her morning workout his eyes bulged he sought Mose Mote Coogan and the plot was laid They might have made their killing on Lilys Lily's first race but Mose talked the good thing spread and the odds went down to little or nothing It was on that race that I lost my first bet under bet under Al Ai Hayes' Hayes advice an and counsel Thereafter followed a long series of ra races es in fn each of which Lily went lame at the three three quarters pole while Coogan waited for the price price to be right till at length the time arrived the day dawned his decision deci sion alon was made The boy with the telegram found Coogan Cooan at Lily LUy Whites White's stall and Coogan thrust his his thumb under the flap of the yellow envelope envelope envelope en en- read rea a the message and grinned It was from Jerry Hart art whom he had left in charge of his bis handbook in New York It read See Lily entered today Does she he go turned to the waiting boy V- V COOGA Send this he be directed and scribbled on the margin of the telegraph blank Keep your shirt on Ill I'll wise you up when the time comes Then he be counted the tho words and scratched out up and the tho and counted them again Coogan never wasted money on extra words in a telegram The boy started away and Coogan called him back He had decided not to be bothered by any more of those pestiferous Inquiries from Jerry Hart Hartor or or any other friends Coogan Cooan didn't mind minI lying by word of mouth but he hated to go goon goon goon on record in a telegram Tell TeU em not to deliver any more messages messages mes mes- sages to me till tin the t fifth fth is off he directed curtly The Th boy grunted assent and trudged away awny Dot Harris Harri- his HarrIll-his s his nickname was a 1 tribute to his lack of stature was stature was rubbing down Lily Whites White's slender legs in the stall an and Coogan leaned over the door and watched him and thought of Jerry Hart and grinned He had had bad promised to let Jerry in on the good thing when Lily got ready to win end and be he had haa made the same promise to other frien friends s. s But what's a promise between friends If he be told Jerry Jerry would tell some one else else and and the price would go head bead over heels again To be sure Jerry and others who believed Coogan had lost heavily on on Lilys Lily's early starts when Coogans Coogan's orders orders' prevented her winning w nning but that did not disturb Coogan That was their lookout They spoiled the tho price on mo me once he reminded d- d himself Never again Dot looked up slyly Do we get em era today boss he asked huskily Coogan shook his is head Not ripe yet yet he said Walt Wait till tm the odds Is Js worth it Dot grinned In comprehension Coogan understood the jockey and Dot understood Coogan But Dut he was wrong for tor this was wall the day Coogan had laid his plans his bill money was wu placed he be I was rea ready y tor the question There was a n thousand thO In Pittsburgh another in Cincinnati a Ii third in Chicago n a n fourth in St. St Louis and a fifth in San Francisco In each case the money monty was in trusty hands and in each it would be played late so ao as af to affect th the track odds as little littI as us possible There was not a cent in New NewYork York Coogan watching the jockey groom Lily for her effort considered his hill plans vIana and was pleased Most lost of his available capital was on the horse borne and tonight he be e would be rich Lily White was going to win Coogan Cooan had never considered ed that if il a 14 f 1 rt p ie b bG G J r d 4 r r S r I Y Yr r a 5 j i ir r r rf f f i a 1 I It t I Ir r t f 6 r f ii d f i r J z 11 Coogan lifted up his s voice and rC r J J JOIne joined d the chorus and fl an r his t r ti y I o yI Y screams topped liil the i 1 of others others' a t 2 y horse borse is continually pers persuaded to- to gli deal dead lame at the end of six furlongs she may acquire the habit babit For Fot or Coogan did dia not understand horses Coogan did not give the word word to Dot Harris till Lily White was saddled and the little jockey had bad been lifted to her back Then he ho pulled Dot down and whispered to him Go IGo get em This la is the day The jockey turned gray with disappointment disappoint disappoint- ment meat and disgust Aw boss say eay he protested Why nt you wise me up Here aint got a sou down on her all 1111 right Coogan reassured him hurriedly Theres There s a hundred riding for In Chi in you you On the square Aint I always been on the square with you ou Dot The jockeys jockey's face lighted with relief Youre on boss he ho promised And Coogan left him and made for the betting ring What ho he saw when he arrived was pleasing for on the blackboards around the ring the price on Lily White ranged uniform uniform fifteen fifteen to one But almost at once he was stirred by a n m momentary alarm F ROM some outside source money was wasL L beginning to to come in on Lily Uly White Coogan saw a n man whom he knew as the agent of n a Pittsburgh bookmaker play on the tho horse find and the man who took the bet swept that fifteen down to twelve to one the others in the ring following suit A moment later another flood of Lily White money knocked the price to ten aD and then to eight to one Coogans Coogan's mind sought an expedient found one and he took tool heroic measures 0 He drew from his hig pocket what fonds h he bore with him strode openly across across the tha ring to that bookmaker who set the pace for lor the others and with some ostentation played on Black Nose the fa favorite to win The Tho crowd saw him Men caught hi his hii elbow eagerly clamoring for information He lie shook them off angrily with weIl disgust And Ancl they were satisfied ed each with his own interpretation of the Incident His Hia bet was waa enough nough for lor them The Tb track money that had wavered toward Lily Lily White flooded to Black Nose Noe again and the flood Increased and the Pittsburgh bookmakers bookmaker's agent studied Coogan then hurried to a Ii telegraph tele raph office The price on Lily White crept back to ten to one but the crowd Ignored her now In the final rush before post time she was forgotten save for fot some outside money that came In and failed to break the price The great bulk of the money was on Black Nose to win win The books closed dosed with Lily White atten at atten atten ten to one one and and that price would rule the paying off of wagers throughout the coun coun- try Coogan computed his fortunes in his mind as he e brushed through the crowd toward the rail And she been bern twenty to one he be grumbled Ho figured to be bo in close to tu he ho decided i and Lily White would win win win-of of course Coogan trembled with a n sudden rush of apprehension reassured d himself and turned a steady gamblers gambler's face faco toward where the horses were bunching for fOJ the start start start-n a six sixteenth six of a mile 1 down own the track They were prancing at the barrier in a moment they ther would be off in that first whirlwind rush Ten to one on five thousand thousand fifty fifty thousand thou thou- sand sand minus minus his five he hundred on Black Nose forty Nose forty five thousand clear Coogans Coogan's heart was like water and his lips were moist as he be considered that goodly sum It had bad taken somo some scraping to raise the money he had bet i it had left the treasury of his New York handbook all nIl but bare Ho saw v a flash In the sun where the horses were pivoting and wheeling and mincing at nt the barrier then in a welter of dust to tho the tune of a n great roar from the tho crowded stands behind and a above ove him bim the tho gleaming forms leaped into a action and plunged down the track toward him Coogan yelled I Every very man about him yelled He yelled He lIe did not feel the tug at his elbow till the horses bad had flashed 1 past 1st the stand and begun to turn Then ho lie gave attention to the boy standing there The he boy handed him bim three telegrams They said they was important Mr Coogan the boy stammered But I wafted like you said C Coogan did not even hear Eyes on oa the horses rounding the th first turn he ripped open the envelope pulled out one message and gave It a a swift glance Chicago wants to play playoff off 1200 on It Jerry Lily it r read ad was signed Jerry Hart Jerry was wail running Coogans Coogan's book in New York The purport of that brief brict message came home to Coogan sud sod denly and his heart all but stopped He Ih forgot the horses tearing down the track for a moment and looked at the second message They want to play playoff off on Lily It read Shall I take It And the signature signature- Jerry J Jerry again That figure wrote Itself Indelibly on Coogan's |