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Show ,j " r s J v v v w J KJ ---T t:t-- p Estin:tedTL:tPaLlicII:s Invested That Sun in "theGet-mch-Quic NEW YORK, Feb. 27. Conservative racing men estimate . that , more than 140,000,000 have been gathered from. a gullible public In the past two years by the get-rich-quick turf - tipsters and "racing commissioners." who are now being raided by the police In all big cities from New York to San Francisco. Jack Sheehan, - a race-track "tout,' who six years ago started by selling three winners for 10 cents on the Long Island race train was the -originator of the general scheme which has since developed and grown to such great proportions. pro-portions. . ' ' . The idea developed into the great i concerns which . took : in thousands, where he had accepted - dimes, and which sought out their victims in every nook and corner of all the States In the Union. The uprising of the public against these so-called speculators and the publicity given their peculiar methods meth-ods have in a very brief time scattered them to the winds. .' To such men as William C. Whitney. August Belmont. James R. Keene and J. G. Follansbee, all lovers of clean racing, rac-ing, is due the work of cleansing the turf of these parasites, for It was the action of the Coney Island Jockey club in refusing the entry of Gold Heels In the Suburban that first directed the attention at-tention of the police to the owners the E. J. Arnold company of St. v Louis. With the downfall of this, the greatest of all the turf speculating syndicates, the war against all of them began. |