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the 2:20 class. No one paid any attention to him. 



The first two heats of the race in which Ethel 

 Starplex started were won by John Arnold with 

 Walter S. in 2:121/4. She did not show in either of 

 them. 



On the next trip Ethel Starplex rushed off in front 

 but Ben Jones caught her in 2: 14 14 on account of 

 a little hard racing luck. The next three were won 

 easily by Shelton. 



Prior to the third heat, a slim built man with 

 white hair and a scar on the side of his chin was very 

 active in the betting ring. As soon as Bob Anderson, 

 the race manager of the meeting, saw him he knew 

 that there was something being put over. The man 

 was A. E. Richardson, who rung Jack London. Arnold 

 also spotted the brown mare by her behavior when 

 scoring. He called the turn when he said she was the 

 same mare that had raced against him the preceding 

 year as The Princess. The money was held. 



The following week at Clarksburg, the Michigan 

 raiders decided they would get the money by copper- 

 ing their pacer, and bet against her. She started 

 favorite and finished last in the first two heats in 

 2:23l^. The judges put up another driver. He won 

 with Ethel Starplex on a jog in 2:171/4. The bets 

 stood. The purse was held and the marauders were 

 trimmed again. That night they shipped out. Ethel 

 Starplex was Edna L. dyed brown. She was under 

 the management of A. E. Richardson, who used the 

 boy who owned the genuine Ethel Starplex for a 

 blind. 



