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FAVOR THE FRENCH CLAIMING RULE Years ago Cupta:u Maehell used to put horses of much better daaa Than the other animals liUely to be entered into selling races in order to have a big gamble, and then buy his horse in after it had won. Sometimes the look-d-for result did not happen and the estate captain on the whole found that the game did not pay. Bnt the Indian plunger. J. c. GeMtaaa, v.as reeestry followed the Ma- ehetl plan and profited giPatly, though he had to pay heavily to retain his tools. From it all comes the English advocacy of the French eijiming rule, which America has found to work well, though the framed conditions 1nr;illy are not broadly enough applied to the spirit of the rule.
