The evening world. Newspaper, September 30, 1920, Page 19

PALait Word’ Horse Players Blindly FollowCalculations of Paddock’ 8s ‘Wise Man’ _ Latter Day Reminder of “Pitts-| 7 burgh Phil” Makes Betting |Goa! Purely Business Proposition, By Vincent Treanor. ae A casual visitor at the race- track a most amusing sight is the wild rush before each race by hundred men or so from the entrance to the club house down the lawn to where the layers congregate. They are of the latest school of horse Players, Everything is, as a rule,|” quiet and peaceful just an the horace tart through the paddock gate down past the steward's atand, to gallop away b the post when the sudden commo- tion begins. One man jumps down the club house sta(rs, whispers to an- other waiting outside the sacred por- tals, He in turn whispers to a third, and the human race is on, all sig- nailing the same word to others who Join in the chase, The visitor might think it @ contest for men as a pre- iiminary to the one for the horses. Innocent bystanders are knocked this ad and that in the wild scramble | Baceged making their paths to = various price makers are loca’ “ What the deuce ia it all about the uninitiated visitor will ask. an if the cops are chasing | On them,” and go it does. The scramblers are the “last word” followers of a bettor, whose turf wisdom is need Ay po a8 wonderful, and jose knowledge of handicapping is believed to be unerring, maa, quict mannered, gentie- manly in appearance and altogether wnobstrusive, walks around the pad- dock in measured strides before races with dope book and his “fig- ures” in hand. He carefully looks over each and every starter In the Yarlous events. He views them from behind, moves around in front, thon takes in tho side elevation aw it were, notes the pasterns, hocks, knees, legs, flanks, and all the various parts that & racehorse is supposed to possess. Now and then he'll stop and talk with a trainer or two. All give bom mn, and soma teil With tho er as they start from the paddock. He gives them another careful once over as they get out on the track with the jockeys in the aad- dies. To him the betting on races is & serious businon.. He starts toward the club house, never in @ rush or at a quickened pace, bis face a study. Sometimes it seems that the horses will get away from the post before he reaches his commissioners, but it hasn't hap- pened yet. Ho is strictly a last min- ute bettor, In the club house this horee student stands for a moment tn deep thought before making his final decision. He looks ut the ceiling, then mentally surveys the floor, When he arrives at his conclusions there is a scurrying around. Commiastoners jump hither and thither, backing the horses whbse s he bas estl- mated as being best “What is he taking?” everybody, !t | weoma, wants to know. “So and So,” and the word reaches the groups outside in turn, and the rush, as told #bhove, begina. Not a “Pittsburgh PhitY by any means, as measured by the sine of Dis wagers, this man who enjoys the acquaintance and respect of the big. gest men on the track, has made such # success of betting on races t haa few bad years. In other words, he usually winds up the season a winner and goes back to his California home to spend 4 quiet winter with Dis family. He has been #o uniformly @uccessful that many regulara have found it a waste of time to try to Bick winners on their own account Aw one very aptly says: “Why worry yourself and spend hours doping horses out when you can get the the benefit of all this man's brains for | nothing but by simply waiting for him to make up bia mind on what he bets and the ng?" As every one kn beating the races is no child's play, It has thinned the bair of many a one and mad nervdus wrecks of others; but this man, apparently unperturbed by it all, goes his way day in and day out end ppare ntly enjoys himself, If he buffers from suppressed emotion, which is said to have killed "Pitts- burgh Phil,” nobody notices it, He wins and loses with as little expres- on as did the Smoky City plunger, ut whether he cashes or pays @ wager he always has the satisfaction of knowing it was on his own judg- ment. Trickery or manipulation evi- dently isn't in his make-up. Yesterday, for instance, he must have won, for the word carried in the peparate and distinct rushes toward the. ded layers poor, ur was, ae vd in the first, Beaumarais in third, On Watoh in the rere, in the @fth and. fn the Jast, bil of ‘Son home ae ‘ot meaning to hard luck to-day, he may decide on losers; but if he does, the groups outside the club house rails that patiently await the horse he is betting on, will go down with him to a man. HERE AND THERE AT AQUEDUCT Follow @ man when he’s running in luck, An old mying, but it doesn’t a)- ways lead to paths of id. Hear that, a Fitzsimmons? We 4 that Vibrate and Captain Aloook did ther al best, but that wasn't good Sly old dog te * that Jack Goiddbor- ough. He slips Mile. Vivian over when all the friends of the stable are ‘4. Fruit Cake, Elected IL, a. pt Reg ot Maid, in faot, everythin, what @ panning got for Me delay on Tailor Maid by" those who followed the Atkinson mare! He was one jump late with her at the wire. Johnny Moran got a thrill! when he saw his Le Gauiois i vn ft out in the front ranks in o third, This bird was backed from 80 down to about 4 to 1 at the end, but those who Le Bn Pong lal ata laaaal | against di third Notice the confidence with which Captain Alcock was played to beat were tain, “but Ptr} Watch? Looked as &. oo 4 sndotin high with the Cn bia stable connections thought b “a kick in the pants,” whatever th. means, He ran & good rae, at that: Joser® Prince of » of Jacksonvitie, Fis. who dropped dead at the track be- fore the running of the third race, is sald *. —. remarked, “No one is going to me off On Watch to- day.’ ‘Dvidenuy he didn't figure on the pare g oy He was stricken down before he had a chance to bet. ——>_— Tony Marto Trounces Mt PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 20.—Tony | Marto, the hard-hitting Marine, won easily over Freddie (Young) Hicks, tn the opening show of the season at the |Lyceum Theatre last night. 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