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Anecdotes of "Joe Joe" Many arc the tales told of "Joe Joe," one of the most delightful figures of racing some twenty years ago Joe Joe he was to all the wiern circuit, and few knew that his narie was William Lucius. Joe Joe had a system all his own in the pi eying of races and he usually bet on five or six races each day if the bankroll held out. His was what he called "the alliterative system." To explain, it could not be applied to the first race of the day, but the winner of that race gave him his guide to the next. If Sallys Alley was winner of the first he would look for another horse whose name began with S in the next race, and so on through the card. Than he would vary it occasionally when the race had a name. Joe Joe bet on Schorrs Presbyterian with supreme confidence when he was winner of the Preliminary Derby at New Orleans. Presbjterians Preliminary made him a sure thing, according to the system. But the system was not always so successful. When Joe Joe was working for W. W. Lyles in Chicago a part of his duty was to make collections for the form book that Lyles was furnishing the bookmakers of the day. This particular afternoon the American Derby was run and though Joe Joe was the sold of honor he was just ten dollars short when he made his returns. "How is it you are ten dollars shy, Joe?" asked Mr. Lyles. "Dorians Derby; thats how it is,"growled Joe Joe. Dorian had failed him in spite of the system.
