Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-07
By Clarence L. Cullen.

by Vial OASS LIZ SNAASAs
Consider the tipsters; they toll not, neither
do they spin; and yet the way they ICON"
the credulous and cop the kale is enough to
make the archangels comfort.
Those advertising tipsters. we mean.
Those gunmy illiterate, transformed
touts of the turf press who. in the big black
block type. advertise that they've Got
50 to l Sleeper for Next Tuesday"
"Cinch Babesky for Tomorrow That'n Win
Pulled Double" "Can't-Lose Moral Tod ~
Thatll Walk In and thus on ad nausea m.
The depressing feature of it all is that
there are literally thousands of supposedly
intelligent human beings who fall for the
game OF these block type tipsters. All ma n
ner of people contribute to the lining of the
tpsters' bank-wads. Clergymen. even.
That huge turf Information" concern of
ST. Louis that blew up couple of years
ago had a considerable number of western
cIergymen it's books. men of the cloth
who required the coin so badly. 1t appeared.
that they were Hing to get % per cent
a week on their invested capital through
the medium of ony-betting. On those
same books, too investors were the
names of doctors, lawyers. merchants.
musicians, and even men who had played
! the horses for long years were there regis
| tered as subscribers to scheme SO laugh
ably impossible and phony that it was
| joke
1t is the old phenomenon of the magic OF
| the printed word The tipster spreads it
out in ornate. If vulgar. phraseology to this
! effect: Il know" He rings himself around
with the aura Of one who has penetrated
the mystery, unveiled the screened prophet
| gained possession of the lamp that needs
! only to be rubbed to erect into view crys
| tai palaces and heaps of gold higher than
the block type. says Il know, sings his
siren song Of furniture vans stuffed with
yellow money. until even intelligence and
thought are bemazed. Mayhap, on top of
his claim to knowledge, he actually, by
some lucky chance. delivers few winners
! Then he has to employ clerks to handle the
| tide Of gold that swrls in his direction.
The horsebugs discuss the new block type
| tipster wherever they meet or congregate
mo use in talking, that fellow Nailthemon
has got the goods, gurgleS the hOrSebug
whose own dope has gone wrong for some
| time, his voice breaking with enthusiasm
Yesterday he gave Skatesky as his guar
anteed special, and Skatesky traipses at Is
| to l. Day before yesterday he gave Crabo-
witch his one best bet, and Crabovitch
got bad start and was only beat a face
| on the tape with 20. 8 and 4 about him.
| Nothing to it, Naithemon is there with the
stylish junk. Me for him. I'm on the way
! to the post Office now to get twenty-five
| bucks worth of money order to send him
| for a weeks subscription. When you see
me next week I'll be lopsided with the nego-
| table securities. I'm in good at last string
| ing along with Nailthemon'
| Everywhere the horsebugs exude this
| kind of vacuum steam when the new tipster
| with the first line of lucky stuff swings
| along. Years and years of experience never
| teaches them that the big tipster of today,
| with the half-page or page of block-type
| advertising stuff. is the down-and-out bum
of tomorrow. But while his little day lasts.
| how the big tipster of the day does store
up the nuts for the hard winter to follow I!
| How he does grin-Ive seen him grin-as
| he opens up the pounds and pounds of new
l l.:
and sorts over the money orders and the
certified checks and the dog scared, faced
| currency!
I'm only May-fy. Twin FIR jes' little
| while" one of them, riding the top crest of
| tipsterdom. once said to me as he busted
himself at this engaging occupation of
money-sorting. but HI. look at wot I'm
| gettin' while I'm here!" and from his eyes
| to the base of his jowls his countenance
| was one sardonic grin.
|
| If the people who chip in toward the en-
| richment of these advertising tipsters were
| to be approached in person by the fellows
| at race track. for example and advised
| to get their money down on such-and- such
a horse they'd merely laugh in the tip
ster's face, or stake them to specimen of
| the boots, or hand them over to the Pinker-
tons It's the printed word. the block type,
| that does the witchery business for the
| tpsters.
They employ Checkers" you see, or
| they're 'clockers' themselves. They lie
! in the tall infeld grass of the race tracks
| all night and watch the speed trials of the
| horses made at the hour when graveyards
| yawn, the necessary illumination of the
! track furnished by lightning bugs. They re
| connected with or in good with this or
| that noted trainer They've got Dave
| Gideon's railbirds subsidized so that every
| thing Dave gets they get They're bunk
| ing up with this or that noted bookmaker,
] and all of the 'info"-nauseous contraction.
| that!-that the noted bookmaker gets they
] get. They are souse-mates with so-and-so,