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Barnes, if I remember correctly — and in the meantime 

 Grannan rushed back to the ring and bet Gallilee to a 

 standstill. When he got through half the slates were 

 turned to the wall. 



Grannan must have won twenty-five or thirty thousand 

 dollars over the race. He put crimps in half a dozen 

 bookmakers and that was said to be the reason why some 

 people were anxious to bar him from the track, although 

 they refrained from injudicious action of that sort. 



