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LATE TRAINER MARTIN WELL LIKED Held in High Esteem by All Who Knew Him Incident in Life of Jesse Lewisohn NKW YORK December 14 W F Doc Mar ¬ tins death reported from Havana was a shock to his many friends in this city as well as horsemen all over the country While Mr Martin had been sick for some years he was able to attend to his duties faithfully and fulfilled his office so satis ¬ factorily that his services were in demand Person ¬ ally Doe Martin as his intimate friends all knew him was one of those characters one meets at times whose temper was never ruffled no matter what the aggravation Whats the use of getting mad at what people say so long as your conscience is clear was Martins reply to all arguments on questions when someone ut in a knock against him He always hnd a niUjantl ap honest grip of the hand for everybody and while he bottled up his stable secrets as in duty bound he was never deliberate in discouragement when asked concerning tlie chances of a horse in his charge to win a race His reply to such queries would be I think he has a chance or lie is not much of a horse horseOfficials Officials had every confidence in him and ac ¬ cepted his extilanation of tlie good or bad races which horses will sometimes run without serious comment Doc Martin was one of the popular trainers of this country and will be spoken of in appreciative terms with the best of those in the profession professionWhile While on the subject of those who have recently passed away one interesting incident in the life of Mr Jesse Lewisoim is wortli recalling in which a poor acquaintance of his once ventured an opinion on a race which caused Mr Lewisohn to win hand ¬ somely instead of losing Incidentally after the race the poor acquaintance lied about his own win ¬ nings and thereby lost what to him in those days was a princely present In a conversational way tlie story runs thus Mr Lewisohn is walking from tlie ring to tlie paddock at Sheepsliead Bay after making a large wager on the favorite in the coming race He meets the poor acquaintance who has just returned from California where he had attended the winter meeting at Los Angeles What are you betting on asks Lewisoim I have a wager on Jim Blutes colt Why he is 30 to 1 What kind of horse is lie asked Mr Lewisoim Just a fast youngster that can run like tlie deuce for four and a half furlongs then he stops but this race is on the grass and I think he will just hold on long enough to win as he will go farther on the grass i have bet 10000 on the favorite intimated Lewisoim Better go in tlie shed and save it by betting on the Blute colt suggested the poor acquaintance LewisoUn turned around toward the betting shed and was losi in the crowd for ten minutes What lie did to the boys on the stools in those few minutes must have been plenty for upon his exit to the onen air the Blute colt had been backed down from 30 to 1 to 10 to 1 To cut the story the Blute colt won tlie race just managing to nose out tlie fast coming favorite favoriteLIED LIED HIMSELF OUT OF 750 750Tlie Tlie following day the poor acquaintance who had wagered sufficient on the winner to win something like 900 a fortune to him in those days strolled toward the paddock to look over the horses being prepared for the first race of tlie day He stumbleil across Lewisohii who immediately said My but you saved me quita a little money yesterday advising me to bet on the Blute colt I saved all right and won sometliing on the winner Did you win a good but looking straight at the acquaintance Oh yes foi me I am but a moderate bettor you know lied tlie acquaintance almost shyly for he did not want to let Lewisohii know that he occasionally bet 59 on a horse How much did you win on the raccV asked Lewisoim Oh something like 150 was the reply That wasnt much oil a good tiling like that I just wanted to know how much you won because I have made up my mind to double up your winnings for the tip Here is 150 and 1 wish you had won ten times as much it was too late for the acquaintance to tell the truth after having already said his winnings were 150 He had to accept the offering as it stowl but he has not yet cooled out though the incident happened nearly seventeen years ago agoIn In speaking of the incident the person most con ¬ cerned in tin story says I just lied myself out of about 750 by trying to appear too modest and circumspect It taught me a lesson to either tell the truth or keep silent But I certainly was a mad guy when I heard Jesse saying he intended to double up my winnings and not a second before I had given him the lie for what I thought was a good reason In after years I spoke of the case not with any idea of revising my irO statement but just as ii race track incident All Jesse said was Its too late now and in future tell the truth
