Show I 1 A NEW of the expression let her go Gall acherl 11 aeto K ew york eowna sun let lot her go gallagher Galla gheri I 1 eaid said mr I 1 william bepley of chicago n as he lie pent fent a lignum vita vitte ball down one of the P bowling bow ling alleys at the whito white elephant theothor the other night lie ile scored a astrike lie ile was wait asked why he lie made use of tho the expression let her go gallai flierl I 1 ite its sure good luck ho he said its better than meeting a man with a straight tip before I 1 tho races I 1 saw by y tho the papers out west last summer I 1 that it was all tho the go gb on oil change here and I 1 MW faw a lot of funny stories I 1 as to where it started all wrong I 1 everyone every one of lem cm one aid said it came 11 I 1 fr from om a new orleans car driver drivers another g KIO ave alio credit to a chicago roller coaster and others said it be I 1 tan gan in troy and baltimore the I 1 gallagher who raie gave rise to it was thomas J gallagher formerly sporting editor of tile st louis globe he lie is well known all over tile lie west he ile is one of the bet best horse re portera in the country lie ile used to iw Z etters a first clies class printer and ho lie is it line fine billiard player george blomn 81 says there arc only two three cushion barrom placers besides shaefer and the other big ones who can beat tom tom gallagher Galla glicr used to ply play a rood WI many billiard matches matche a in old room at fourth and pine streets st louis when lie was practicing inc a crowd would always be on hand 0 they oil all knew him and liked him now tom liae has a it deliberate way of 1 walking around the billiard table and I 1 viewing a hard from various points and then fiddling with his cue I 1 reflectively before ho lie shoots not ner lous like but it is hii hill way so N when hen the crowd got tired waiting some one I 1 would call out as TOBI toni rowed sawed with his cue cule oh olt let il her er go gallagher V finally I 1 nally it kot got to e be a common ephram F around st louie louis then it got into the poolrooms pool rooms and on th the 0 race 0 courech cou afterward ard the billi billiard a rd play ers erg with whom tom had I 1 ried it aw ay with them maglioli Ma gRioli to new orleans 3 carter to cleveland lon lin morris to the coast and eo so on until it worked its ita way east two tyro years ago and struck change here contagiously last summer 11 ali 11 II there is to let her go G 12 her |