The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-06-10
THE TOUT'S MORNING WORK
Y0UNG MEN AFTER TIPS UP AGAINST
AN ELECTRIC FAN.
A Diversion From the Business Of Selling
sure winners at the Races Suggested BY
Nicely balanced Machinery - The Young
Men Surprised At the Dihnculty Of Winning.

Men Surprised At the Dinnculty Of winnias.
A tout who advertises in a racing paper
every morning that he tipped Ave out ~ tho
six winners M each Of the Ave tracks the day
before sat over his dope" books in his iOxi7
Office In upper Broadway one sultry morning
last week. He was arranging his information
as deduced from the dope" books, and wait,
ing for the appearance Of the punches Of young
chaps. feverishly ambitious 10 beat the races.
who called upon him before noon every day
with their two dollar notes In their hands and
forked over the two dollar notes in exchange
for hot ones. ready to win at a long price"
"short-priced babies, but ~cinches," -~sleepers
prepared for hoskillings." nc.
Doping" winners Ia heating work. The
advertising tout-he was a smooth-faced chap
with a pair Of shrewd gray eyes and many
| tiny wrinkles running away therefrom-looked
up from his form charts for n moment TO turn
| on the button that started the electric fan
on his desk going. The siS-bladod fan began
to whizz. The tout sharpened a pencil, and
then looked idly at the whirlinR fan. An inter-
ested expression stole into his face. and he
reached behind and shut the current on,
The fan kept on whirlinc for thirty seconds
| or 80 at a rapid rate. and then gradually came
TO a stop. The tout pencilled a cross on the
| surface OF the blade that pointed downward
when the blade stopped working. Then he
set the fan to whirling again. When the ian
stopped after he shut Of the current this time.
the blade with the cross pencilled on its sur.
| face was pointing upward. Then the tout
pencilled the figures from to Q on the six
blades, and continued his experiments, The
| experiments showed him, after he had fooled
with the fan for fifteen or twenty minutes.
that the fan was strictly on tho level. that all
six OF the blades took turns impartially at point
ing downward when he shut on the current
1t was a nicely adjusted electric fan, and all
of the blades were OF exactly equal weight.
The advertising tout smiled to himself.
Then he shut of the current that propelled
the fan and left his Office for n little errand
down the street, He went to n sporting goods
establishments the next block and boughta tiny
sinker and a couple Of inches of copper wire.
He returned to his Office, drilled holes In the
tiny sinker, ran the piece of copper wire through
the holes inseniously. and made some addi-
tional experiments with the fan. He then
took ST, slips of paper OF equal length and
width, and blue-pencilled on these slips the
names Of the following six horses Ethelbert.
Imp, Jean Beraud. Mesmerist, Kinley Mack
and Survivor.
He pasted the six slips on the six blades Of the
electric fan, started the fan agoing. closed o6
the current. and waited with apparent interest,"
10 see which blade was going 10 point down.
ward when the fan came TO a full stop Imp
won out the first time, He gave the fan fifteen
or twenty more whirls, and each, OF the na9s
had got the money money n by e pUllns expef dDwnt% WdhicCRR
obviously proved quite satisfactory 10 the
advertising tout, for he grinned more and more
amply as his experiment progressed.
sn lss ia TeadinV a stack Of kilograms con-
taining information straight from the track
business -when a couple Of eager,eyed Young
fellows with blue serge suits and straw hats
walked in on him. Then eisued LOT zen mn:
morals" and "skinches, and water melons.
and "walkovers. that were going TO happen at
sppeared TO Know all about the whole thing He
held up both hands deprecatlraly when one or
the other Of the young men SUGGESTED me name
Moons races. Then he wrote the names Of The
winner; on a slip Of paper, folded old lu swsy m the
chair with his hands behind his head and talked
horse some more; After a while ne turned ne
gaze In the dl lo1lsd 81 fba the w eISo, ,oo. 'aH Then he X
Young man bent closer TO the fan so rs to read
the names Of the horses on the blades.
What's this gagp" they asked the tout.
"Oh. j was just ~frittering away my time ngpr::
ing on the maturity OF chance last night
said the ton, easily. was trying TO see nov
S bofse with myself. that's all"
"WhS, do Won dop Lay to ! against yourself.
and then play , the pa ,bs You iS% ''Ae' one OF w"
' o"s was The reply. Got away with tho
game, too If Id been bucking some other
I'D stis1 si,s hat aapt thing ~ last night. 1'd'a' had nothing
0" That %S1' ssos" saiid the young man ~ Sho va.
% asainsi it tG @ys ,a3V Il ant to lay me a. Ducks e
one that | can't pick the one thatl rolntLby
the way, which way has the winner sott point
'"Down. said the tout.
Wan, to give me to against my picks 0s
Il don't care" said the tout. Might a.
we'll do that as any other old thing
The young man pulled out the bunch OF dollar
makers at Gravesend that afternoon, stripped
one of them of, and passed it over TO the tout.
"Iguess lmp1l do for that ace said The young
The tout reached behind the far. fumbled a
trine for the button, and they were of in a bunch.
Kinley Mack pointed down"ard az inc hhisn'
Huh" said the young man who was up
against the. game. That's about the only
US another shot at the sleepy old mare and
he passed another one OF his hoard OF dollar
bills over to the tout, Again the sn ,oi W. Iha ntin6G
bert. on the other side Of Imp. was pointing
'0S i iMs s" OF the century en- / / don't think.
said The youth who shared in the popular idoatTy
Of Imp. "Impll make Ethelbert look like.
freproof building in the act OF burning TO the
ground before this m over, ana, you
hear me. But she don't figure in this dope,
see. Gimme a dollars worth OF Mesmertst."
He handed over another w1thered dollar OIL.
and the tout. continuing. TO converse quite
industriously, felt around for the, button eSain
and sent them away TO a good start. Mes
merist wasn't quite good enough to get the
stake. He stopped just before the nnish,
and that left Survivor looking downwaro ana
Funny YOU don't hit IL, said the tout. rub
bling his chin. Il broke 1t wide open last night
Just playing for fun with myself
The Young man tried II again ana again.
and then his companion. went in. The latter
picked the winner the first %clatter, and this
encouraged him and caused the youth who was
that he was going to get II right once. anyhow.
or throw away his toe-weiRhts and 90 up In
the air. He didn't beat II once, however.
nor did his companion get u right again. al.
though the latter wedged In the 30 he had won
and Sl4 besides In his effort to repeat his nrst
success. They had to quit. s23 TO the bad be-
tween them, when a couple OF other young
chaps came In 10 get the winners from the ad-
y~ertising tout. The pair Of losers az TIE electric
sorry they had trenched on their store Of dollars
before getting over to the track.
Eighteen Young men, singly or IN pairs,
visited the tout before the latter closed up his
ONCE and left for the track. The attention
NJ all Of them was attracted by the electric
fan with the horses names pasted on the blades.
and they all went UP against the game. tho
tout appearing TO be Indifferent whether they
did or not. He'd Just got the thing up to amuse
| L..-..IS L@...I N a n fan ~ fhQTn win tnn