Show 1 Easy Money Actual Lure I To Turf Fan FanI I I Talk Is of Sportsmanship But All Hope for Great I Wealth at Track By PAUL GALLICO LOUISVILLE K Ky May 3 There is always n a lot of loose talk around horse tracks about fine old sportsmen and the sport or of kings and I Ithe the lore of the turf anti and no doubt most of it is true talk There are many solid and splendid citizens and fine old fam families Ues of the country who get a kick out ot of matching match ing ina and mating up equine aristocracy in the attempt to make out or of two good horses one better one Sudden Wealth What Js Is really so o fascinating about horse racing is the lure of sudden wealth Optimistically speaking you could arrive at the track with a two two- dollar bill in your our jeans and it if you but knew the rIght answers to the six or seven races you could depart with between tween fifty and a hundred thousand thou thou- sand dollars if the right long shots came galloping gallopin home This would be an unusual case but the possibility is there T dollars at ten to one would become twenty Twenty at five to one would grow to toa toa a hundred A hundred at three to toone toone one would be Another ten to toone one shot md and you ou would have Get ten to one on your our next bet and you have Be satisfied with five to one on the last horse and leave tle track with without haying hay hay- ins ing turned in a lick of oC honest toil It H never has happened But it could And really that is all that human beings demand Nobody goes to Saratoga to 10 buy automobiles or sables or diamonds or similar luxuries But the salesmen sales sales- men have discovered that horse play play- ers who make killings who came to town with nothing and are very liable to leave with the same are excellent prospects flagged Touts And the most curious part of this business is the ragged pinch faced gulde to wealth and independence This town is full of them as is every spot where the horses run For n a five dollar bill they will sell you information worth small for for- tunes Was there ever such dis In wares for sale and the salesmen thereof The frowsier they are arc the cheaper their handbills printed on wrapping paper the more extravagant their promises If you ask any of these touts why if they had such a good thing last week they arc not more prosperous themselves they will whine about a couple ot of bad days a arun arun run Of bf bad luck But the curious thing is that human greed overlooks this ridiculous discrepancy Some horse must win |