94 CHARLIE SING. 



with Gossip, Jr., and won two. The judges did not 

 take very kindly to the way Jewett was being driven, 

 so thev assessed Mann a hundred because he waited 

 for Gossip in the stretch, and told Jimmy Doughrey 

 to put on the colors. From that time it was a romp 

 for Jewett. 



After the deciding heat in the pacing race the 2 124 

 trotters came out for the word. As thev scored I 

 could hear Herdic saying, "Graylight sold for 100, who 

 will give me 50 for the field?" That was the quota- 

 tion on the last ticket sold. The favorite did not go 

 away very brisk and Bowen was not hurrying him 

 when Feek showed in front at the quarter with Wil- 

 liam Kearney, Lucille's Baby and Jeremiah being 

 lapped on him as they marched up the back stretch. 

 At the half Green's mare showed in front. She re- 

 mained there to the finish in 2:21^4. Del Monte was 

 fourth, Graylight sixth and St. Elmo distanced. After 

 the heat I brushed up against Ragan and on taking 

 him one side learned that Charlie Sing's $700 was in 

 the box and that the Chinaman would be broke before 

 night or in a position to go back to China and buy a 

 yellow button. I told Ragan the money was as good 

 as gone and he might just as well tear 'up the tickets, 

 but he smiled and said something about its not being 

 my funeral. 



Del Monte did not go away very brisk in the 

 second heat. He either did not like the footing or his 

 driver was not trying, which I was not clever enough 

 to decide. The track was soft and a trifle cuppy, and 

 as Graylight was a big, heavy going horse he marched 

 through it like a quarter horse. Bowen growled at 

 him when they got the word and away he went up into 



