"RIDERS UP."
unbeknown tq his widowed mother and his young sister who live in the | little New England village where he was born, "Sure Thing Johnny" has oecome'a race track tout. For several years he lhas been promising his, mother that he. will, come home, right away—just as soon as he completes a big business deal. After many disappointments, an<3 some weeks of particularly hard luck he chances upon some -information that brings ....... undreamed of wealth to himself and friends. He prepared to go home, bids goodbye to !his 1 -iends, but decides to do a last favour to General Jeff, an old friend who is about to enter the. Old Soldiers' Home, and takes him to the track. There the inevitable happens—not to. Johnny b"ut to his aged friend—and Qnce again the visit home is off. ' But compensation comes to reward -Johnny, in two wavs; and so this story of understandable human (humour and pathos has a true-to-life ending-. On Monday a.t the Maoriland.
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Shannon News, 21 November 1924, Page 2
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165"RIDERS UP." Shannon News, 21 November 1924, Page 2
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