New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1924, Page 15

f | “ 9 1}) dice brought him food, but he did handicap with any expectation of'Juuulh(‘e, carefully hiding his cough, | knowledge that he possessed an im- | not eat, All day he remained hud- ‘winnluzv The colt needed work, [rode forth for thé first time in (our}morml soul was from hearing it God dled in the hay, covered with horse and he wanted to see how well the | years wearing the colors of his old |damned by trainers and others. | blankets, his face turned to the |three-year-old could carry weight |stable, A week later I heard that Jaun- board wall. He was thinking and |racing agatnst all aged horses. The Lookmakers were laying thir- |dice was in a Brooklyn hospital and hrist-spirit in the worst of [his mount Jump the Grand Cane e indiwis Gothsomans 7 I 1 " 1 us, perhaps, but the *most |had the course led in that direction. | ve These two had nothing in| ] 5 j aundice had not slept. His cloth- [ty to one against Doc Grausman, |in bad shape. I went to see him to optimistic of missionaries would [IPalls and broken bones failed to [common. Race, religion, birth, | and a wit in the ring said it was|get for a newspaper the story of & | | touched Jaundice with his hand anad | ¢oughing, For the time his abiding [ten to dne the colt, twenty to one |jockey who, while sick to death, hardly have assayed the soul of |break his nerve, but his subcon- |breeding, and education mide them | 1 L “Jaundice” ('Keefe with the hope |scious honesty was shattered. On |different, hut they met in the thiek | Waked him. Very qu and with |love for Doc Grausman was put in|the poy. What was not known was |rode in a race to win money enough of discovering even a trace of that 3“"’ fat he never vhad ridden a |scum of vice and became insepa- | Teturn of long:forgotten dignity, |the background'while he went from |{hat Jaundice had tuken the money to bury a friend. He was propped quality. Jaundice was a product, or | crooked He was restrained rable. For Lord James, Jaundice | rets, | velope upon which was written an |Lord James what he considered a|Lord James and wagered it three had told me he had but a little time % |boys Lord James had preyed for TuF,m.; remains some of the |body he would have tried to make levery winning race. Upon such During the night L James |ing still was damp and he was | | | e entrusted to Jaundice an en- | Man to man begging money to give |that had been contributed to bury |up in bed, coughing. The doctor by-product, of the race-track. " He by mno consciousness of right or[stole and betrayed stable se ¥s to win be- | pulled race-horses, bought drinks, and furnished food and lodging. 1t |to mail it and allow no one to s the beatings administered by a|Over the jumps he hdd no such |is not recorded that Lord James|He asked Jaundice to see the Loys fifty dollars. Jaundice was deter- of jockeys faced the start, u gen- |fungral. i |ever did anything for Jaundice. These two sank lower and lower [ Then he ped Jaundice’s hand |afternoon's sport ended, |skill of the boy who had ridden | pest | ever attended.” tozether. When the majority of the |and died gamely, sustained by the| Shortly before the bugle sounded. |champions. The new boys, with the | P 1 int were | traditions of his ruce and class. calling the horses from the paddock |contempt that yvouth helds for the | addr in England, charging him |Proper and fitting funeral, The un- |ways, straight, place, and thow, on |to live. lle was glad to see me and had run away from his home in St. |wrong. e tried alw e it, [dertaker wanted one hundred and Doc Grausman. A giew generation inquired how I liked Lord Jame Louis at the age of cleven, to escape | cause he loved the horses he rode. em to bury him decently, |mined to raise the sum before the |ey: knew nothingt ot tha || “Gaeat maes ¢ drinking father and a sodden scruples. The stecplechase horses 1 ask them to bury him decently. G vefore the feration that knew nothing of th Great class to that, Jaundice; mothe nd had found refu in alwere “has-beens” like himself and freight car loaded with horses which |entitled to no consideration, Ile “No one can't say that I piked,” e-tracks of the he responded, beaming at the praise, were Lelng shipped to a race-meet- | conmenced to ride queer-looking he (closed they disappeared from world of t, sturved, and seryed |first time in many years he had |lashed out with his feet and kicked hurled insulting epithets at him as - lirn ST ep ae the for the first race, = fractious colt | “has-beons."” SR ing in New Orleans. Two hostlers | races. 1le was nineteen when the | Jaundice al wept. It was the OTt | “has-beens,” jeered at Jaundice, and |y pianted Lord James swell, and his were drinking from a boftle when | fell off the favorite in a steeplechase i folks can't ever say I didn't.” | wept, and he was ashamed of his|the jockey who had been employed |they: wheeled and maneuvered for e to ride Doe Grausman in the fourth, \the advantage of the break. Jaun- not sleeping on a pile of hay. The e to permit an outsider to win | Prison terms “w|l‘lw' s le‘ ou're looking better,” T lied. : : ! e e e o onche ey reappeared. welcomed the boy, gave him a drink, |and the stewards ruled him off the ’ “Be back on the track pretty soon fod i Srenow | fracke & o Juundice had developed a cough.| Around the 'k no man Jaundice heard of the aceident with- dice did not retort with oaths and | g : % ed him, and allowed him to burrow |tracks for one year. | afe ¢ 5 Lord James won't beat me more lin a few minutes. It was he who vyilifications as he would hayve done into the hay for warmth. Perhaps What Jaundice did in that year of . ) hurried to the clubhouse and in- in other days. He was afraid he it was kindness, perhaps they saw | hanishment he alone knew in detuil 5 o omething busted inside Kindn: i i y i formed the caner! e Cps e tion. mething busted inside me in him n means of escaping the rred from the only home and th I i “Thanks Jaundice” the owner| o during that race. Have you heard ork o eed ane atering [only ¢ iates he had ever known 4 1 s " he harrier flashed. Jaundice had work of feeding and waterin y ! 1 ) said carelagsly. *T wanted the eolt than a neck,” he said without emo- how Doc Grausman is comin’ along? |been holding Dpe Grausman steads 11, |Quring the milling of the othe Out of the corrier of the eve he I horses during the long journey, the great ?'-lrj"l‘n";‘ cut "' “I"“; him. | 4 1 il \ to have the workout. Now, I sup- L QuEnLLO it iat aixhe Chia Ja di was appy. Y { e was broke, le stole and was i Jaundice as happ. He loved | An pose 'l have to serateh him. 1 tly he spoke of the little caught the betraying arm movement “What do you think of that ed, rather contemptu- orges. Perhaps ths s the re- |sent to prison. When the susper 3 horses. Perhaps that was the re- |ser prison 1en 1spen don’t want to put a strange boy up.” | : | 5 = (rava of w¢ the rest | sion was lifted he went hack to the A 4 o o maining tra rest e i Mister Phil,” said Jaundice, in- | ¢ 5 . s before the had been bred or beaten out of him . He had grown heavier and | of the starter an instant before the i spired with a sudden idea, “let me He had loved the horses which drew | Iis eves and his mind were blurred | { {h 5 ride Doc Grausman, I'm down to the coal wagon hi fat drove | by drink, He 7!\‘»11 '\'.h the horses, 3 1 Y i My k g weight, Mister Phil. T only weigh a when sober, and the sizht of the |attaching himself to the stalle for ) i (1 A hundred and twenty-eight now. Tet trim thoroughhreds filled him with | Which he had been & r : f ) ft B { me ride him, Mister Phil, and T'll awed admiration.® Arrived in New [and lived in the stalls and the cars i i L . I win.” |barrier flashed upward, had shot ; flashed upward. had eh S it Doe Grausman at the starting line : d [just the nstant it fickered past 1is | youping, but e woulint back his nose, had beaten the start a length | i "\ [and a half while the others were taking the first jump and sent hit | g .cese roaring down the long straight- | o away for four and a half furlongs, ! argy of those who follow the races, [stinet, When hie daved he hecame ; : n o e e Thwhed s “1':: :{'":IHT“J”‘":V‘;‘V"’fifi!p.fl;‘llfl'\- at the A yenr duter he had acquired a|a tout, whispering information t Wl 7/ 5. N d afraid it cannot be fixed, Jaundice,” ,n" PRt e Rl . " [length over the favorite, thastorta » I profanite and |petty gamblers at the edge of the ; A B watd Lokl “tHose about? Say, Lord James has about ? \ o suid lightly, “ITow do you stand | | A8 the horses paraded back past [as much chanst as 1 have.” 1 strove to explain, without much wleans, Lie followed the horses to | His love of the animals themselves s voice was pleading, his eyes is voic 4 ding, hi he race-track, found ref in the [had waned gery and vicious = i i 3 1 s @ ght,” the r el " nt u g \ and manver appesiing. ond ke it little guy is all right, stables, and adopted into t vin ad ' ven that i 3 . % coughed harder. The owner said Jaundice, “Did you hear what he said about Lord James havin' a chanst on that track ho was talking oL i R AR ’ o ) " with the sewards the stands he held his lips tight] slousnex iou oop- | trac W night it was (o betray . X X . et o stan eld his lips tightly | “versy one has & chance.” I sa yielouma hou' vor i e \ I'm clean with them now, Mister | Every one has a chance,” I said nered a lersized and un- [stable information to bartenders ir I I : | \ [ Phil. They ain't got nothiw' en me. | N the remnants of [return s > {little as he weighed out, and in the Me?" he asked in surprise, pressed together. e staggered alfeehly dernourished, wit or drinks \ WA 1 They never could prove T pulled rlht ing rit from generitions of "hen hie was vo there [ . saddock his lips were reddened, The | “gyre o0k Says eve n fightir t from generations of Whey : W : t 1y 1l ' RGN \ A \ I Lady Rose. I'm down to weight, P k ¥ n h Sur 1 Book says every one Trish susts him. Stable-boys [remained two loves which it Wik ! - | Mister Phil, and that Doe Graus- earned 1o foar the savagencss of his | was proved that all good ecannot be | 4 | " learned ! 1 t P be | o \ | 7 man horse likes ms. strain of the ride had opened the |has who repents,” 1““ wounds in his lungs, “I ain't got nothin’ to repent of methods and left him alor ) melts . On \ \ i \! |4 ‘ Hin eagerness and the troth of| lkv ur later he ordered the un- |exceptin’ puilin' three or four of sionally a trainer table | wa gallant : ‘ the fnal statement decided the |ICrtker to give Lord James the them bum chaser The stewards | best funeral he could for one thou- [conldn't got nothin® on me at that” s i | R \ : \ 4 “PIl see the stewards and ex. |"" tWo hundred dollars and paid | “The Judges up there fnow it an.” | | Lord R R el TR L e money. There remained| “Know evervthing? Then, {for his share of the victory just| what chanst has a guy got? hag with & whip and eursed | b ) the stable, whose » ¥ \ RN beat Nim wit) hiy 1 cursed 1 wh : en Instinetivel In one yenr he was an exercise At fourteen, with all the wickedness | ¢ . ontetling twenty-seven dollars, | As r prospect the 50 and viclousne of the race-track 3 fee received his TR \ 4 s v / The news spread around the track | Was too N 1 telephoned the / {that evening that Jaundice wax to little roctor and gave it aver to him, {give Lord James a “swell funeral” |Ho called upon Jaundice several Curiosity was aroused. Touts, stable. |times, and the following week 1 conld ri anid ' \ 1 rd Jumes was so jockey's lieense the one spark of des colored wilks, cency remaining in him eaused him | |boys, hookmakers' helpers, a fow went to the hospital again, Jaundice e rode winners, Winning, with onceal his family name, 1t was | jockeys, attended. It happened that | was weak hut smiling Jaundies, was unscliish, 1o re reputed that he was the son of Jaundice eame to me to consult ns Ray,” he whi red hoarsely, I not for personnl glory or for money, | English nobleman and that he ¢ [to the minister, and I had secured got a chanst. That little man says |the services of a wonderful little [that them Judges yp there knows I but for the honor of the horse on [have a title and estate if he r | 1 rector who s much interested in all | was carryin’ ton much weight to run which he was mounted, When he [turned to Englang Rugn of an old was beaten he gulped dry sobs and | pride and remnants of decent breed. {human beings, . true and that you can’t hlame any= et o teh Rl ol o on ¢ restrained Lord e P / A / ¢ % » | The funeral was the strangest one for losin' when he is handieap- gole it mentioning the family name ns his s g ? 177 ¢ Z |one T ever attended. The littie min- [ped out of it. T told him about pull- r four vears he roda races on own or from returning home to is- ister was doing his best to comfort [ing them chasers and Iyin’ and the flat, at tracks all over Amerlos. [krace them, He hnd coma to |the mourners, but plainly was at a |stealin’, and he sald that didn't Durine these four years he made as|Amerlen, & yo ofi, with disadvantage because Jaundice was |make no differcnce, that the Judges much money as the average man 8, [ high / ‘ E / & ‘vh- only mourner, Jaundice, thtough don't =et a gyy down forever if he had P s Z J {smn" instinctive senge of respect is gorry he done wrong” He re- for the detd, was standing very ned thinking for a time. awkwardly and tears were rolling “He didn't have to tell me to be makes in a Hfetime, and at the end of it had nothing, To him money | “quit” Jaundice cannot be spoken meant only expensive meals, clothes |of as having degenerated. His orig- remarkable for eolors and patterns, |inal height permitted but a slight down his cheeks, He was weeping he whispered. “Ifonest, 1 wine, women of a wort, and large |fall. But 1, mes had eunk to v ' the rave [connected with the gume dies and [In for the wobkout, and perhaps |for the sgecond time in his life ways was sorry when 1 pulled one vow're |Finally the little rector read from [of them hum chasers when he was vellow diamonds. At eighteen he |even lower Je «. 1o was a cadger, N y Lord James |lacks a decent funeral, but there |they'll stand for It. Sure |the mervice: “He is not dead, but trying, It wasn't square to the s vel- and eak-thief at L wn Y with tiful effort to | was ean mpathy for Lord [strong enough to handle the celt?” was an old man, s face v low and drawn; he hafl ceased to be 1o wh » risk was involved 1in an ale of deceney, a suit | James hat was passed, book- | The owner had observed the ' O'Keefe and hecome “Jaun o arcind the tracks hated wased with his last remittance |makers, jockevs, trainers, owners, |cough, and Jaundice checked it with | an effort, reached instinctively for his pocket, | play Them's good odds—n | sleeping.” horse, This is the softest bet T ever K Jaundice: started, then siared, had” he whispered. “I'm going to diee.” 1o v aining welght and |either Tord James or Jaund money two years hefore | gratter on the plekpockets, con- heginning to pa y penalty of the They pitied Jaundi but the touts e horses « tributing, but their contributions “Yes, Mister PHil, U'm all right. and sobbed in a whisper: “Ten dol- | char to win all them thinge he carouses which followed each tem- themselves despiecd Tord James Jamaica and the weatl aw | were small, The whole amounted to |Just caught a cold. Get this mount 1are will win vou twenty-coven if rainy, They experienced dif- |eighty iz co was not|for me, Mister Phil. I've got to ¥ou think old Lord James is only It's like writing your own ticket. slepping.” T found the little rector wvery me alont and only be sor porary perlod of prosperity. For a He bad lost all his courage vear he fought to hold his standing, [ever possessed any, and drink had ficully In gaining an entry to the satisf n satisfied plant Lord James decent.” Hie monunts heenme fawer and [sapped his health and his in. track and were sompelled to remain | there wou v o story to| “That old bym dead at last?" 1is reversion to instinet raised a | thoughtful and amazed at this new I've got to get a hun- 1augh. For the first time the aseem- 'm of man he had discovered, fewer, When the ownera censed to | Of the trin, only Doe Grausn re ontside, shivering S tell “Yes, sir. employ him to ride on the flat, he his name honestly, His v were the day's eport ended na ne On the . following the horses dred and fifty to plant him, and the Mlage was getting it money’s worth, | a1 1 he buried Jaundice the became a steeplechase jockey, tho=e of his sire and his , stable-hay allowed h to sleep (moved to Belmont Park to open the (boys ain't kicking In fast. Let me that tra and ride this Doec Grausman hoss and =hocked. He could not understand us ar ed about handicaps and means in the majority of cases|years old, procured for m the camp fire o G n was entered to start Il plant Lord James swell, like his |that Jaundics neant no disresy and keeping on trying an ndicap. Doc family would want him.” e arg: that no man could o v talked juet as if he The little rector was very much next he got right down among Riding steeplechasers in races and he was of ro o ree | with him in 1. and Jaundice . W on moral and phisienl s, Jann- When Lord James s where no one refused 1 E h eht ) dice had no fear of phyeical conse- had become friends n Y tord James @il . an belong to n wealth The owner passed over a twenty- |in the United States and be so oo 1 ok halt his quencs, mor any coneaption of Probably it was dn ndice’s next morning, 11e 1 : 1 | ) " Jaundice had dollar banknote, What he told the | pletely ignorant of religior i life t thing aid was morality, With twe drinks of career as Ning Jockey, w the hay with wet clothing and ten care virtory, This owner | track whiskey poured iInte his outraged he secattered m Klessly after the morning F the when the fourth race was called ¥ a curs word #nd that b officinls no one knews, hut |that Janndice thought Jesus re a hookie lay odds that - L . . . Ia id 1 avoide ) 1 i Gosh, do we ne the | give them t gs e o ' " She The Fairchild Donation ¢ avine er o srond ot 1o e o o Lo, we et that v, bovween. e WU R e' - ’ tep by step—f ag ¢ applos a f this is furniture, |library 7" 1de hid ".ANE et ] ric b r sproe Iet's give three cheers for Fairchild “Didn’t you v r t " tale th ; now-—=not giving them th t of Cle ole Meantime, ¢ 188 MONROI ay, Miss (take—and when t 0y s come over fell never Vo . the fulure mavor! M 1" George Fairchild a truck take 1) A . ande ) ' ' 1 And the enilings of the eld Lord, no ~thos * wldn't just f ‘ t tell any one Monroe 18 impatient ae he stood i That 1 des " . nans d with the quate e se for 1vic mistake about yvour dona at the threshold of his office about |clear, jsn't M ' i . " " N ing bt 1 cers )t ou boys that ' ' tion to g liked them w0 to depart for a luncheon at a busi Um-hum oh, Mr. Fairchild 1 1eh—of er Aot understand ness men's elub. ith Ingging = detained er a little trem voice lities, but vt all your “I'm ™ absently asked Miss Mon- the keys offer ashamed of 1 ros, looking up from a folder that| “What's got i ¥ : ! .oy it entirel 2 “Come on into y i the wrong this t we () v 1 Fair- was apparently more ng than G - Ever si 1 z 1 her emplover at the nent or v " k the dnor opened “My, that mn o sent t he ” 058 of sixteen or eorge Fairchild 1ed ] 1y doffing ca ‘ ¢ } t t maybe Listen, please, a fins * seemed 1o be something of edging to the wail before speaking. | the ' ireatly to Lau and don't for : « ment in this com Mr. Fairchild said he nad sor . il those | a freshly made choco art Mr. Falr ing for us,” they #a and Third | pantry—made, to be sure. for Georee said. “Mr. Fairehil or something ! tin N "¢ ! v t fathers are—and he had b sa meantime some plorer. 1 I gaess the and some politieal e he o for hit pected after d nt Laura ¢ aren’t cheer Meing up * hesdqnart ' . . 1 . v 1 poured out wards are goit nst } phenomenal victoty in and theyve 1 n appe 1 i . ; ) a : ' Tosur # + quart thing. That's «h t 1o the Third Wards, No oné the fannai’s Gay out under N ri " oo Ioe ' ol 1 - 1 < aq ” ' i " 1 roprett 2 e 1 his influential from the B one will 1 went o strong arm on he “Miss Monros y did ie all right "t how, thinking.” t from 3oy any lonke h b wonderiag, t's what malkes » hare it | Lawra, whether mayhe, after all, yoy to the o yrrid 1 v ch sect r y " - e and your i aren’t itician than 1. ¥ o g " ¢ f ' : riably in ¥ 3 erriliing 1 sar. If owe th ctory to you—and Yiere's the V1 4 rehild, = 3 1 ' torme s wo rested. | now wy t to marre me before e wants the { 3 e 1 ' ot | y . i ay ha duze to Jive up to the fine reputation