Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-12-09 | Page 2 | Trinidad Man Wins Coffin

TRINIDAD MAN WINS COFFIN James S. Long of Trinidad, Colo., has to die in order to win a bet that he made on the outcome of the recent re-cent world's championship baseball series se-ries between the New York Giants and the Boston Red Sox. Long is a pioneer resident and an enthusiastic enthusias-tic baseball fan, and, being mentally mental-ly and physically sound, hopes to review re-view tho result of many world's series se-ries in seasons to come. On the day before the recent series opened Long wagered $50 against a metal coffin with B B. Slpe, a local undertaker and deputy coroner, and the same amount against a marble tombstone with R. S. Gregory, monument mon-ument maker. Long picked the Red Sox and won The next day he received a letter from Slpe stating that the coffin would be delivered upon receipt of advice from Long's family that he was dead. The following day he received a letter from Gregory stating that the tombstone would be placed- after ho was buried Long fired a letter back and suggested sug-gested that his epitaph be inscribed on tho tombstone: "Here lies Jim Long, who made a bet On the Impulse of the minute; He took the odds, but, by the gods, Ho had to die to win it."