Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-04
WAR DECLARED ON
RACE TRACK TOUTS
Men Who Get on the Inside for
BOOkies Benefit Have Trouble
Ahead.
ON THE EASTERN RACE TRACKS.
First Step TO be Taken by Patrons
OF the Brooklyn Jockey club-0wn.
ers aud Trainers Protest

According to word received In Salt
Lake recently, from Brooklyn. there are
serious times ahead for the professional
race touts. In other words, war, war to
the knife. is to be declared. and per-
haps has already been declared, by
owners ana trainers who patronage the
Brooklyn Jockey club, against the AN
cient Order of Sons of Rest. who arise
early each morning during the racing
season, and watch the performance OF
exercising horses, for the benefit of the
astute bookies. These gentlemen OBJ
tain inside information. or misinforma-
ton, and sell It dearly TO the gamb-
lers who have need Of It, The own
ors, trainers. and other interested per-
sons feel that they are not getting
square deal and they propose to put a
stop to II If possible. 1t Is reported
that petition Ia shortly to be clrcu.
lated along the lines Indicated, and it
IS believed that 1t will he the first step
to general fight on the easy-money
gentry
Before the petition is presented those
agitatng the scheme viii make sure
that at least 90 per cent Of those who
have horses win sign, 1t is complained
that p. j. Dryer viii take action If
II Is the win of the majority OF owners
and trainers
owners claim that hardly II work es-
capes the sleuths OF bookmakers, and
me result is fair price is not obtain
able against horses that have never
been shown in public. There have been
several instances this year, and II is
sun very young, where horses have
been made favorites in races for no
reason other than the work they had
shown IN private trials. This gives an
owner no encouragement TO own horses
ana pay feed bills, when the ''touts"
ana book-makers get all the benefits.
AS one owner remarked some time
ago. Those guys made my horse a
faVorlte, did they2 Wen you see what
happened to him; he got left at the
post. He might have got away II they
had offered fair price against him.
There are some of the arly morning
boys who keep their information TO
themselves and don't put II on the mar
ket' There is no complaint against
those men, but the petition is aimed at
those who sell 1t to the bookmakers and
the professional tipsters"
Viewing the situation from an equlta
bic standpoint. all owners have a right
TO the protection Of Associations. for il
Is they who provide the material for the
sport and II they cannot make II pay
Ing speculation the chances are that
there VIII be few buyers, says the
New York Telegram
The rail- vird business is one that
mas been I'm operation many genera
tons. one can read in some of the
old turf records how men burrowed UNI
derneath the walls of an estate for the
purpose Of watching some famorlte can.
didate for a classic event work for the
race. Many really humorous methods
were used In the older times I'm Eng
land. 'Touts' would go and engage
themselves as farm hands and buffers
on purpose to acquaint their friends on
the outside as to the running Of certain
horses hidden IN the sacred precincts Of
the nobility.
While the Brooklyn Jockey club may
do much TO stop the practise II is an |
evil that VIII take a heap Of extermin- |
atlng. The eager eye OF the ever |
watchfu tout" can see from afar, and |
while he may not be permitted on the |
grounds Of the association during work |
Ing hours. II is even betting he will be
about the place with an eye to knot
holeorpe re hedupona | izhn zhnfm
hole or perched upon a telegraph pole.
The unlnitlated might now inquire.
how are they going to tell the horses
so far away? Foolish question. Those
lads could tell a horse they had once
seen Just as easily as Louie Tlschou
IAN tell his dachhund from Clancy's
bull pup,