THE NOBLE ART OF BACKING WINNERS I9I 



SO, I'll tell you what to do. Just lumber 

 all your friends on to reading the 

 ** Merry Gee-Gee." They may never 

 forgive you, perhaps, for playing them 

 such a fiendish joke, but you will have 

 the satisfaction of knowing you have 

 aided in a good cause. 



Of tipsters there is no possible doubt 

 but that Old Jack Dickenson is the un- 

 doubted champion. Not that I should 

 think it at all likely one tipster gives 

 any more winners than another ; in fact, 

 I should say that in a twelvemonth two 

 tipsters would give precisely the same 

 number of winners, or very little differ- 

 ence, just as two people playing at cards 

 together for a week would leave off quits 

 if they played an equally good game. 

 But everybody knows old Jack ; he's 

 always there at exercise in a morning 

 on the course, whilst many are not out 



