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Show JOHNSON Passing of One of the " 6reatr"frettofs off the Turf New York, June CO. The death here' yesterday of David C. Johnson marked tho passing of the last member mem-ber of the best known trio of 'bettors on the American turf. The other two were "Pltt6burg Phil" and "Plunger" Walton. Perhaps the greatest plunger of the three was Johnson. Ho differed from the others In that he was a luyer as well as a backer of horses and when horses we're not running he found other methods of tempting fortune. His cronies tell a story of his spending spend-ing hours in a room In a local hotel one night, a few years ago. flipping a cent with Theodore Hostotter of Pittsburg at $1,000 a flip. Johnson's winnings at the raco track were vorv heavy. After the last race one nfternoon, a few years ago, he told his friends that he had won $52,000 on iho afternoon's speculation. specu-lation. Bets of $10,000 on a race wero not unusual for him and Bass and he would go higher, especially on the great Rosbeben But. But the money that come to him. lir big chunks melted away just as easily as his friends say that he left little of the fortune ho won. Johnson was about 50 years of age. |