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

proximate name. that is-setting forth that
he knew of a dead-sure winner for that
day and giving the name Of that dead-sure
winner. The ad. cost him his $40 note for
one insertion and he didn't eat that day.
His little venture was just q shot at the
moon with pop-gun. but 1t got by. That
dead-sure winner of his won on the bit at
10 to 1. That started Gaxim e. May off
on the right foot. The ad. was twice as
big on the following day. but no dead-sure
winner was given. Instead. the terms for
obtaining pipe winners were mentioned-$3
day. $25 a week. Office address was
named. and 80 on.
The man behind the Gaxim & May thing
has been eating ever since.
The money swung his way like Bay of
Biscay neap tide and right at the outset
he began to invest a goodly portion Of 1t
In getting hold Of sure-enough informa-
tion. Now. you can buy information on
race tracks II you are willing to pay for 1t.
Gaxim & May were willing to pay for
theirs. Gaxim & May got winners to burn.
and the clients streamed in as thick and
enthusiastic as pilgrims Mecca-bound.
Gaxim & May soon had a suite of offices
about a block long and more than enough
clerks to run a couple OF New York ma
tional banks. And all the time this Queerly-
organized tipstering outfit delivered the
goods Immense sums were actually dis
bursed among genuine insiders at the
tracks to get hold Of stuff that meant wins.
The advertising of the firm was something
prodgious. not only In the turf press. but
in all Of the big New York papers, and.
after a Bit papers throughout the land.
The bookmakers began to hate Gaxim &
May. The Gaxim & May good things were
being sent over with clatter day in and
day out. and 1t looked like the world up
side down for the layers The young man
behind Gaxim & May married an actress
of the leading-woman kind. quarreled with
her. separated from her and from that
time he lost interest in his business FL
nally he quit 1t altogether. but he had more
fhpn mil Of
away when he passed 1t UP.
The unique success Of this Gaxim & May
outfit was what started all the race-track
touts to tanning over the situation. They
saw how easy 1t had been for the Gaxim
& May concern. and SO when the decline OF
the big fitout began they started to tip
STEERING themselves. Not one Of them ever
meant to be on the level-to actually sh
out any real money; that Is to say. to find
out anything. They all depended upon
dope. cheap paddock gossip. the frivolous
predictions of brother touts and all that
sort Of buncombe. No human being could
have played their guess-work stuff at any
time without losing his shirt sooner or
later. And yet these tawdry tfpsters. fell
lows to whom owners and trainers would
not even speak. swing along from day to
day and from week to week annexing the
silk-threaded papers in bales and crOaking
like buZZards in private over the absolutely
hilarious gullibl ty Of the horse-bugs
They don't know.
And they know that they don't know.
Their stuff isn't whit better from any
angle than that of the holiday making
woman at the races who sticks her pin
into the program and plays the one the
pin punctures-except that the woman's
pin is liable to halt at some 100 to 1 thing.
whereas the tipsters just poke you out the
presumable favorite or the second or third
choice and take a chance.
They know that if you try their stuff and
lose out on it and quit being one of their
Clients there are plenty more readers Of
block-type tipstering ads.
And all the tine they lean back in their
swinging chairs in their comfortable New
York tipstering offices and jes' laf
Why wouldn't they?