Show SEEN AI THE RACES Three to 1 Shots Had These Chances to Bring Erin Home the Money I I I didn't win an any mone money nor money nor nor lose any for tor tho the matter of or that when that when I took an afternoon off oct to run down to the e Gravesend track the other da day remarked re remarked re- re marked mark a buyer for a Washington department department de- de store who has just returned from the big town across the North river from Jersey CIt City but I witnessed two tuo or three little incidents in the course of ot the afternoon that had humor In them One of or them was when Franz Ebert the midget et actor wlm has hns frequently traveled over the United States with a company of ot dwarf dwart comedians was invited Invited in invited In- In to mount the starters starter's platform b by Starter to witness the tho start tart in one of oC the races roces The little chap chap he he is not much bigger than a drink o of water water water-Is Is an Inveterate race race- goer it seems and he appt appeared ared to be bewell bewell bewen well wen acquainted with all the leading officials of or the course He lie was sumptuously sumptuously sumptuously most dressed most prosperous midgets run strongly strong to and Jewelry jewelry- and his funny strut and his air of oC profound profound profound pro pro- found wisdom and Importance a as he he strolled about the lawn were wen entertainIng entertain entertain- Ing to wa watch Starter was on hl hi wa way across cross the lawn to go to the starters starter's platform Just before one of oC the races and he came upon the midget just as he was about to pa pass s through the gate ate leading onto the track Come Como on and see the start said the starter amiably and the dwarf accepted accept accept- ed the Invitation and toddled alongside the starter to the platform creating a laugh In the stand on account of or the number of steps he lie had to take to the starters starter's one in order to keep up with the procession This race was at a mile and the start was right in front of ot the stand I leaned on the r rail ll clo close to the starting point mu amused ed at the solemnity of oC the dwarf as a pushing his glossy silk hat back on his forehead he studied the skirmishing of ot the horses before the barrier He stood right alongside the starter on the platform The hor horses es were pretty prett fractious but gradually they began to get Into alignment and the starter was fumbling ling linS' with the electric button that releases re releases releases re- re leases the he barrier and seemed about to yell ell Come on c to the Jockeys when the dwarf at his side suddenly went pale and clutched at the startled starters starter's starters starter's starters starter's start start- ers er's arm Dont start dem yet he yelled In his shrill treble to the starter pointing to one of or the horses a rank outsider that was turned the wrong wa way of the post Dont you see you ou are leafing meat me meat meat at de post ach himmel A roar went up from the crowd and the starters starter's side I e heaved He sent the horses awa away In a cavalry cavalry- front a moment moment moment mo mo- ment later and the dwarfs dwarf's horse hore got a a. good position but he couldn't hold It It and finished In the ruck The look of oC In Intense Intense intense In- In tense gloom that pervaded the midget as he descended from the grandstand when his horse had finished way back was convulsing Standing beside me by the rails as the tho horses were going gain to the post ORt forone for forone forone one of the races was an un elderly Hibernian Hibernian Hibernian Hiber Hiber- nian who looked queerly out of place on a a. race raco track He was rigged out Inthe In Inthe Inthe the garb of or a n. workingman and he looked like a truck driver or a ware warp house porter But his e eyes were ablaze I with expectancy as the last horse Inthe in inthe inthe the procession to the post filed b by the stand lIe He surveyed ed his hh horse hors critically I and his grizzled countenance was illuminated Illuminated with happiness as ns he did e so Obviously Ob he had sot got a tip on that ani ani- animal mal mat The horse was wa one of or Father Bill Billi i t Dalys Daly's a a. no good brute named Trump 1 I and on this afternoon his price was 1 If u the old Irishman next to me hadn't played the hor horse because e he was II possessed h by an Irishman then it was because some joking tipster had mean meanly I II I advised him to invest his mone money on the to 1 shot I The Tho old excitement Increased fn- fn I creased visibly when the horses took I their places before the barrier harrier and his I dumb pantomimic rooting for Trump was funny to tee see After a aver very short r-hort delay delay delay de de- lay the barrier harrier was sas lifted and the horses sped ahead The favorite e at once drew out ont In front and led lerl all the way home All Ali the other horses In the race were well past the wire when the no account no-account Trump was still clomping clamping heavily down I the stretch The old Irishman's consternation consternation consternation con con- and wrath ere were tremendous As Trump beaten more than a sixteenth sixteenth sixteenth six six- of a J mile cantered canter d down the track past where we were stand standing Ins the theold theold theold old man made a a. funnel of hl his hands and with all the seriousness s of life he yelled at nt the Jockey Jocke on Trumps Trump's back O OI 01 sty say delayed yea ye cz II J I JI I went up Into the stand on the sec second ec- ec ond and floor to have e a look at the la last t race on the card and I found a L seat alongside alongside along along- side a middle aged countryman who for all the tho world looked like the conventional convention convention- al farmer as pictured In the funny Cunny DIe pic picture ture papers in the act of buying gold goldbrick goldbricks goldbricks bricks brick green goods and so 80 on How on onearth onearth onearth earth he ho had ever drifted onto a race racetrack racetrack track was more than I could make out but hut more particularly how he ever eyer Imagined Imagined Imagined Im Im- that he was capable of or picking a a. winner in that last race which was composed of no less les J than eighteen maiden year three was too deep for me But I had scarcely taken a seat b by him before beCore he handed over oyer to a L grinning grandstand commissioner a n note to be placed on a horse called The Beggar at to 1 to win He had to fish around In all of f his pockets a longtime long longtime longtime time too before beCore he found the thc five dollar hill bill and It seemed as I If it he had a pretty prett afternoon of ItHe It lie He was plainly in a a. great state of oC trepidation before the trumpet sounded summoning the horses to the post and fidgeted and squirmed about In his seat In a wa way was that Indicated his Intense e so solicitude solicitude so- so e for tor The D Beggar In the race The start was beautiful and this time too the favorite hopped out In front and tow tow-ro tow roped d his hla field from start to finish The Beggar gar came In a rank hopeless last beaten belten about an eighth ofa of or ofa ora a mile by the entire field The old agriculturist agriculturist agriculturist ag ag- at m my side Jumped up when he saw the jocke Jockeys Jockey's s colors on his horse as the animal lumbered dismally past the judges' judges stand He shook hook his fist fiercely in the direction of oC the last of the rans' rans and shouted The D Beggar sg-nr sg are ye yc yer hide hide and and yeve eve made out o 0 me by jimmy I would have been willing willingto to bet as ashe ashe ashe he stormed out of the stand that that would be his last visit to a race track Washington Star |