The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-01
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How several "Touts1 sell Cheap Dtn.ena
Hochets % winninE netters.

| HOW Several "IouNhW beh OANnp mlnmoun
Iockets 20 winninE Dettors.
Several sharp-witted chaps have been work
ing n new game at various race trucks lately,
and their profits therefrom have been large. A
sporting man who is cup to snuff," and who
always hns money to bet on current events.
especially on the running Of the horses. told this
story In an uptown hotel the other night:
~ was standing in the betting ring at Morris
Park Yesterday thinking how l would place nv
money on the second race when i noticed a
young fellow who for years has been a notorious
tout Mt the big tracks. He was dressed to kill,
and flashed n couple Of diamond rings, besides a
big sinner in his shirt front. He looked SO pros.
porous that my curiosity was aroused and 1
quickly drew him aside.
whats the graft nowf i asked him as I
looked at his expensive clothes and his immacu-
late linon. Arc you playing thom and win
nlngf
"'Ployin' nothin'r was his response. i've
got a cinch.'
"'what is iti Can't you put me ont
"'If yer on tho level. and don't give up yer
brains. I'll tell YER ans werod the fellow, who
began to lead me to q secluded spot.
"'Now, / don't want yer to git me into
trouble. he went on, fer l never done yer no
harm. But I've got the greatest graft that ever
come off. 1t can't be beat, and the cops can't
! do nothin' to me at that, when 1t comes down
| to legal business. / amt the only one to work
1t, though. There's q gang Of us. and we have
! been doing the thing up 30 brown that wo'ro
goin' to quit those parts in q day or two and try
out-o.town tracks
"'What's the game. any wayf' I said i'm
patiently. I'm not stuck on long yarns; toll me
the game
".All right. Now. don't lot anybody pike us
off,
with that the fellow unbuttoned his coat
and threw his chest out. lie had on o colored
vest and a watch chain, tho ends of which went
into his two breast pockets. In tho middle.
hanging from a pendant on tho chain, was q
locket. 1t was apparently of gold and platinum,
with q beautiful diamond in the centre. 1t was
30 finely finished and the stone threw forth such
| genuinely prisnatic colors that 1 instantly ex-
THAT a peach. where'd you get 1t q for 1
thought perhaps he had stolen 1t.
nnclasped the locket from the chain, that's
WHY, suy. tho guys is crazy over 'em when they
claps their eyes on en-.
Yer see Gdress SUP W. 10 the hands. Latest style Q;
clothes; got n real diamond in, me shirt. also
DfSl b bn abfog O ON me wfa fns siSsf. Thi %nte %a6 sSsu md
the track for some of them guys what has dumb
luck and wins n pot O. coin. When I've got me
cts. l never lose sight of him.. He is all swelled
up over his luck, and makes a Decline for the bar
drinkin'. and pretty soon they's all feelin' good:
Then it's me time to get in the game. As l
look like the whole thing in the way OF clothes
and real stones. it's an easy matter to take one
N'".see here. SRI. I want you to do me q favor.
got a sure winner in this next race, and the odds
Is Otol. All want is a ten-dollar note. and
ioc&eCta.' Then 1 flash the loctet and says: It's
worth fifty, but I'm willing to let 1t go for ten.
p %e a ahsSs soS 70 r eei Il b ts dGr two weeks and give
The guy generally shows it to his friends.
and they sh W how much they don t know about
good stones by saying tho locket's a good one;
to SIS. Kick hard, but finally gets excited and
this next race some way. / don't want to put
up me pin and rings until it's II case o must, but
yer kin have the los ;at FORT. I'VE and don't seiiit
uS %Hs feels Of his big o roll a and Look locks m ever 2vsr
while he gets tho locket. seci That's fair.
".whatis the graft 2 I still insisted.
lin getting to that replied tho fellow. as
he put his hands into his trousers pockets and
R@ss wild s Sns P Fss s Of lSski I know oRo a yer pia see o 'asT IN !,
a gross. They are made Of some new
/ that makes EN- Wear. The stones e glass.
but they've lom get, sos something ing pack o. ut them what
and I've seen en- in stores here sellin, fer 81
and So apiece. Yer kin have this one and show
IL to yer friends. I've made on an average $40
n day sellin' 'em, and | amt committing no
crime, fer IL a guy is willin' to give me SO fer
one o. them. that's his business.
~ got to leave yer now, as there's an old
geezer I've been watchin' for an hour. He won
a hundred on the first race, and I'm going to
sell him a locket and then skip out. I've sold so
many of them around the big tracks this year
though, a Teller wot buys one o dem has got tho
privilege of sellin' it over again. for they'll fool
some OF the best judges o diamonds.
The sporting man then showed tho locket,
which he had received as a present, and 1t was
pronounced a wonderful imitation of the real
article by those who inspected it