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Show Four Persons Known to : Have Picked Blue Blood Only four known per-ons, Indud.ng the owner, bet on n horse that paid odds of lS'J to 1 nt the II. uiewood track near Chicago the other day. nnd when the long .sinit came dome a vie- ' tor, two almost swooned, and anotder. a negro stable boy, turned hand ; springs until he was exhausted. It was the Kentucky thoroughbred Blue Blood who wrote race horse history his-tory for Illinois when she finished two lengths In front In the live fur- . longs race. The horse's owner. Carter Car-ter I'verett, apparently was the only person In the park who wagered more ; than J2. lie wagered $20 "on the ' nose." and collected $:'.(V.l. Ho waj overcome when the odds were posted A glass of water had to de hurried ' to a woman In the clubhouse who bor- ' dcr. d on h Merles when she saw that her ?2 ticket across the board dad ' returned her $'10,20. , ,... ,..,r Judges' stand who had squandered JJ , on a win ticket was overcome with Joy when he saw he had gained S.-'sUO. The ,,egi(, stable doy p. ' peareil to de the only other person who had bet $2 on the horse I |