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Show PLUNGER RYAN IS TO QUIT THE TURF . i i John J. Ryan, enatlonal plunger and get-rlcb-qulck man, announce hi Intention Inten-tion of retiring permanently from the gambling game. This resolution, he ay. is taken at the request of his wife and children. "My wife and three children are dearer to ma than riches, and I have only bowed to th wishes of a mother and woman,' said th blue-eyed plunger who waa the enaatlon of the Metropolitan tracks last summer. Behind his retirement from the paddock and poolroom 1 Mrs. Ryan, who for the last few year ha urged her husband to give up the pursuit of a turfman and peculator and retire to life with less vlct-sltude. He will live hereafter in - O Innati, the city where he was born atsJ reared, and where in the last year he las been buying up desirable property, both In and near the city. Whatever Ryan has turned his attention to recently has been a sou roe of revenue for him, and it is said among those who know him well that Ryan 1 worth more than 8L000.000. With a beautiful home tn th fashionable fashiona-ble resident district of Cincinnati, which cost him 8125,000, the man whose career from newsboy to millionaire Is known to many will spend his remaining years with his family, 8everal months ago Ryaa bought the controlling interest In the .Arkansas club, and also held 16000 worth of harts tn th Hot Spring Jockey club race track. |