Show The Race Track TrackS S Tout of T loBY lo loI od I BY GEORGE nULL HULL I II I TOUT TOUT Anything Anything sticking out to look out for custom an age secures and dispenses information to customers J No according to old man Webster a tout is not a a. thief highway pickpocket which are the tho vocations usually ascribed to him by w w. not taken the trouble to find out what tho word really means T 1 Touts by the uninitiated are looked upon as something to fland n fl and to call a a. man a tout in the tho presence of this class claes of or people is mi ml I same as whispering that he has baa Just got rid of a a. striped suit and j is isto to grow his hair again True there are aro touts who are dishonest dishonest dis dill honest and to get et rid of these on 1 the he race rate track special officers who know their faces fael's are employed but up to the th present time no special officers have been en engaged a ed to protect the tho pub pub- him In- from the time mining brokers who are touts for a hole in a gravel ravel bank and whisper inside information on the prospects to their customers Neither is 18 there any protection from the real reni estate tout font who is ia also on hand with inside information about the boom which is due to come como shortly In fact toutin touting in in various lines line of business has bas mad made some of the great treat fortunes of the tho V A ral race track tout is generally supposed sup sup- I posed to 10 be a youth with an old and smudgy face fael wearing eari a sweater two sizes si es too lar large e around the neck and a apar pa par r of trousers which owe their alle- alle to one ine suspender Touts answering answer answer- ng ing this tins description have existed and doubtless 1 do now on some tracks but hut hr an sri hard to find nowadays The tip tiji I to 10 date tout i ill is generally a well dressed and optimistic young man who rises rises with the early bird and Md hies to the I Ilak to 10 wat watch h th the workouts in the gray lawn He lie practically lives liven on the track and thereby lie secures cures information for fur which he has worked hard to get et I This I man expects ets to find some one who is is anxious to wager h hi hi during the afternoon and toison toi tol son the tout hopes llopes to im imi knowledge he has and to reee rec compensation if the horse hone win information is at fault or 1 If other reason the tho horse does not tout gets fets nothing not even en a a smile while the man who J i betting un t any worse off oft t 0 his i ignorance be he bad had put his 1 on something that never had had By Br this it can be seen that j t mate tout is is not the fearsome is thou thought ht to be b bv by the gener and it should also be oe e taken int mt that every trainer jockey or stable empl gives out information on t a chances is a tout tont no better worse worle than those who make by gathering this information posing polin of it it j 4 Touting at the fair grou groi groW spring has bas not been encourage extent The men who follow cation on the local track are arc a ai painstaking in in their sear search h f mation and honest in illegitimates who combine thi th picking pockets with the I bO bogus lIs tips ha ha ha e e had har short eb forced to ro make a hun hurri from the track and from the c e |