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THE DAILY SHORT STORY
ANNUAL FAIR.
Last year
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we appointed Barney, pari-mutuel, system of botting, and Bridges chairman of our annual Fair everyone was happy. You could bet as in Burmcrest. Old Jake Fletcher had little as 50 cents or ›as high as been chairman for fifteen years, and thousand dollars. there were those who disapproved of
The day of the Fair arrived and it ousting him in favour of young Bar- seemed that most of the money was bet on a mare named Homing Pigeon, Cyrus Gill, the town's leading and driven by Charlie Colewell. Charlie richest citizen, voiced the sentiments had won plenty of races in past years of the majority. "Jako ran a good and it looked like he was going to win enough Fair, but Jake's getting old again.
We
ney.
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and his ways are out of date.
I sat in the grandstand and watched gotta keep up with the times out the sulkies line up. They made a here in Burnerest like everywhere else. pretty sight. The band was playing, Barney Bridges is young and has the sun shining and evorybody was modern ideas,"
happy and feeling festive. Dana This was true enough. Barney pro- Easton had proven his showmanship mised to zip up the Fair. The first by decorating the track and grounds thing he planned to do was to mod-, and issuing silk shires and caps to the ornize the horse racing event. Here- drivers. He had also hired the band tofore we'd just had races that were and installed a loud speaker system. run for the honour of the thing, trot- A minute before the race started I ters, with folks making side bets: saw Jake Fletcher down near the rail. Barney's idea was to import some fam- There was something tense and eager ous promoter and make the betting in his old and wrinkled face. I felt
open.
sorry for him, It was the first time "It's a heck of a lot worse to have for fifteen years he hadn't been in the a lot of undercover betting going on judges' stand. with no system to it than it will
Then the race started, Around the
to have open betting with everyone being given a chance to throw in his track, they went, six of them, Burn- crest's best, stretching out their necks, dime's worth," Barney said.
in perfect stride. Homing Pigeon led up to the half, then Jasper horse came abreast of him, then Hector. Dryson came abreast of them, Fergus Cross.
Everyone except Jake Fletcher agreed. "The only trouble with that is," he allowed, "this professional pro moter jigger you're going to import ain't known to none of us. If he's a slicker, look out!”
Bush's
then
It looked like a neck-and-neck affair, "Pshaw!" declared Barncy tolerant- which struck me as being strange.
By Carl Grayson.
ly. "The man I have in mind has Then suddenly I stopped yelling and been in the business for years, Ho the crowd stopped yelling and just wouldn't dare try nothin' funny." stared, Coming down the stretch the "Dunno about that," said Jake. "You four lead horses had slowed down and got to figure that every last man of the other two came up. Then they all us is endowed with criminal instincts,, alowed down and by cripes, fifteen Oh, we're honest enough on the sur yards from the finish tape they all face. That's because we're smart, stoppeth st bien But you
give us a chance to pull a It wasn't until Ints then hig that fast one an' we'll jump at it-if we're I got all the details.
Easton Bure we can get away with it.".
had bribed Charlie Colmeli; And Jasper "Now, Jake," Barney patronized, Bush to pull their Hoo Hector "you're just peeved because I got Dryson could win. Heche a long your job, that's all.”
shot and would have paid?ekaty, But "You're a hundred per cent. right, it didn't work that way. young feller," was Jake's surprising cause Jake Fletcher had figured what reply. "You ain't fit to run this Tal. Dans Easton was up to and had secre- You don't know men an' you don't-tly and individually bribed the other know horses. I do. I been running four racera to hold in their horses. the Fair for fifteen years an' doing a With all six drivers bribed the race good job. Folks in this town simply come to a standstill and nobody
| fools, what with their modern banished.
and 'all. Why, shucks, firing me is
like firing Tex Rickard from running just proves my contention that every "Which," Jake Fletcher pointed out,
prize fights afore. He died.”.
Barney-laughed and so did the rest
Thama a crock in he thinks họ cần một
right, 1939,
The Associated
of us. Curiously enough, nobody took away with it? offense at Jake's words. Everybody So Jake was reappointed to his posiễ liked him, and when you thought tion as chairman and now our annual about it, it was rather a raw deal fr. Fair is a very nice event, as always, ing him when he'd done so well for fifteen years. More than, one of us thought twice about what he'd, bald.. Anyway, Barney Imported this chap Dana Easton. Danau Baaton had pro moted everything from prise”ights to steamboat races. When we put the proposition up to him he said sure
to promote the burke racing
be
angle of our Fair, make a features i
Dana Ba
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