Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-18
ROUNDUP OF THE
TOUTS AT NEW ORLEANS

the stanehion- Say, wasn't that like tele-
| phonin' { Mazie?'
You're punk all right said the wrong
man. dseonsolateIy. That mutt you put
| me on Is running yet
Oh, sugar, yes said the tout. taking
another look at his man and perceiving his
| the other gums is red 'Scuse me. Don't
| take it to heart, Reggy, and I'll slip you
| something alive in the next race, and he
| suddenly saw the right man across the
| ring, darted over there and gathered him
| In with a repetition Of the gioat, easily
| nexing his bit at the pay-of line.
You see, the eld-time touts rarely ex-
| pected to dance their clients but once. SO
| that they didn't have to waste any time
endeayoring to bind up the wounds of the
| losers They dropped the mask with en-
gagfng candor as soon as the transaction
was finished. l once saw ore of them cor
daily Shaping the shoulder of a mark
who had. at the tout's direction, put $40
| on 80 to 1 shot that traipsed in ahead
| of the bunch.
Say, it's a sin what a shine I am at
| this game o pickn' en- amt it. the tout
was saying, merrily, to the holder of the
| 5000 to $40 ticket. He was figuring that his
cut out of that win WAS going to be about
$3.50. guess 1 ought t git thirty days
f'r not KNOWN 'em better, hey?' and he
handed the joyous mark another warm
paste on the back.
Just then, however. the winners num-
Der taken down and that of the sec
ond horse showed to the top. The 80 to
to shot the winner. The tout's zap looked
sick over that switching of the numbers.
" Cooned out of It, by tinkst he gasped.
g Sad, amt it? said the tout looking
even happier than before
The man with the punctured pasteboard
couldn't help but notice the continued seren-
ity of the smiling tout, and he stared at
him hard and said
81 don't see any gloom clouds hanging
over you. at that. Where do you come in
for the cbuckles, now that this ticket o
mine isn't worth wax match?
Buddy said the tout, in jovial, whole
souied sort of way, getting the confidential
clutch on the disqualified mans arm, you
| don't want t whistle none O them hair,
cutters drge chords over Little Loris, IN
Leatherstockin' o. tn Loop-th Loops. Dye
| see that gay-lookin old weasel acrost tn
| lawn, wit TIL widowed map an tn
! changeable spinach on his chin?
:" What has he got TO do with
''Oh, nothin',' replied the tout. making a
| sudden breakaway to join the man across
| the way whom he had pointed out to the
| disqualified mark, 'on'y I'm Twin wit him
| FIR tn mex five minutes l got him onto
| tn mutt that runs second, an now gifts
| first, f'r $40 each way acrost tn tape 90,
| 20 and loan he cleans up $500. Tag,
| I'm it, and he raced over and gave the
| winner by the disqualification the cordial
| clout, and a few minutes later had 500
| of the winnings salted away In his nan
| keens.
''Oh, it was a case of The king has
croaked. hello Louie with the old-time
| tout, all right enough.
Tout Got a Real Tip.
| ''The totits of that gone time would take
a chance on trying to corral anybody who
looked as If he bad the goods 10 matter
| whether the man they tackled stacked up
| with a front like a railroad president or
had the drapery of Butch the Bite. /
once saw one of them tackle 10 less
| man than a United States senator from
of ,y1n IF fha
| famous strings of race horses of his day
| The California senator, gray-bearded,
| tociturn man. only recently arrived IN the
| east with his string, and as 1t was his hrst
| try on the eastern turf few of the regulars
| knew him by sight. The tout didn't know
| his man, of course.
Cap said the tout coufidentialIy, ad-
| dressing the senator from the Pacific coast,
| there's little sleeper of a colt In tn sec
| ond race that L been sleeptn' an splittin
| bran mashes an carrot wit fr two weeks
ever since tn colt got off tn Californy
| cars. He's goin' t breeze home tday VIII
| his little name a-fiowin like a Coney Island
| gals hair on a roller-coaster. He'll De
| 40 t. /. Git piece O. change down. All
! tree ways, cap, an pay y'r rent an IN
| iLstallinent man, seer
| is the horse so good all that, do
| you think?' inquired the California senator.
| who was a millionaire many times over
| nnocently.
Git chunk O. change down pop, that's
| ALL replied the tout, sagely. It's in
Well, I'm glad you think well or
| my horse, young man. said the California
senator. However, he's just as good as
| you say he is-probably better
| THE tout wasn't in the least abasned
| over his break.
Say he inquired of the elderly man,
| are you old man BlankT
That's my name good-naturedly re-
| piled the senator.
We'll, say look a-here. cap said the
| tout then, with a funny switch from ms
| former confidence, how IS that little nag
| " L don't see how he can lose was the
gcodnatured but acknowledgements reply
OF the senator from California.
Say, cap, y'r all right said the tout,
| with genuine gratitude and then he jump
! ed In and got every man that he could
| neck on the grounds to go down, hook,
hne ard sinker on the California senator
| colt.
| This colt was. by the bookmakers, one
| OF the Ieast-considered animals in the
| Califolnians string, and he went to the
! post at the average price OF 80 to l. he
won III a romp. The killing was a ceIe-
| brated one and the tout got such a big
slice Of 1t that he started to booking Gu
| his own account, and he's booking vet
! ''The senator used TO tell his friends.
with a lot of amusement OF the time when
! he had touted d tout on to one OF his own
| horses the bookmalkers being so Iarruped
! IN consequence that he, the senator. was
/ rever able to get much better than / 10 s
| against the colt during the remainder or
| the runners racing career" c. l.. 4.