Show POOLROOM ARE CLEANED OUI Clerk Frederick L. L Wood of the Kenyon Kenyon Kenyon Ken- Ken yon had a good one yesterday on a big the sports who bunch of frequent the poolroom in the rear of the Ken- Ken yon Many of the drummers who put up at the Kenyon kill time wh when n it hangs heavy on their their hands by playing i Ying the ponies A traveling man who was stopping at atthe atthe atthe the Kenyon recently told Mr Wood that when he got to San Fr Francisco he would woul send him hipa some tips tips by wire from the Oakland track Sure enough last week Mr Wood re received received re- re a telegram from his friend to play Vantine I in ip a certain ra race e. e As luck would have it Mr Wood 1 was broke brake I dont don't believe bellev in borro borrowing ing money to bet on horses said the genial clerk but I thought I would put some of the boys next So I just trotted back to the poolroom and put a few of of the sports wise One passed the pews news to another and before the race was nas run about t fourths three fourths ree-fourths of the men in the inthe the room had their money down do on Vantine Well Vantine was wS never heard of and I was clapping myself on the backS back S' S So I went back to the officer office got a telegram tele- tele grain gram blank and dictated this message message to myself myself- The jockey who was riding Vantine at Oakland got off his horse hors tied it to the po post t and went up In inthe the grand grandstand grandstand grandstand stand to watch the race You lose I signed my friends friend's name to it and took it back in m the poolroom and read It aloud to the sports who had let got down on Vantine Say you ought to have heard the laugh that went up in that room Business was ms l entirely suspended suspended suspended sus sus- for five minutes I I. I dont don't believe be hove lieve the boys II 11 go much on my tips hereafter f f. |