TIPSTERS AND TIPPING 293 



posted through the daily and weekly newspaper 

 issues. The stay-at-home tipsters are those who 

 advertise most speciously ; and if their flowery and 

 not always grammatical language — especially in 

 their circulars — could even claim to possess 

 relationship with truth, the fortunes of their 

 followers would be speedily made — although it is 

 apparently not good enough for them to act upon 

 their emphatic statements with their own money. 

 It is this class of tipster that really brings disrepute 

 upon racing, and against whom certain drastic 

 enactments were attempted in what is known as 

 the Bishop of Hereford's Betting Bill. 



There are still a few who, acting in their own 

 name, do geuinely try their utmost to guide their 

 followers aright ; and the same is the case as 

 regards some course tipsters — many racegoers will 

 readily recall the late Jack Dickenson, who was 

 quite a notoriety in his way, and worked hard at 

 his self-imposed vocation. The men who ought 

 to be suppressed are those who, to catch the 

 unwary, adopt the names, or very nearly the 

 names (merely altering a letter or an initial) of 

 leading trainers and jockeys ; for this is clearly a 

 false pretence. 



I would emphatically say, as the result of a fairly 

 lengthy and varied experience, that following any 



