MODERN TIPSTERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1937, Page 13

MODERN TIPSTERS

NEW WEAPON IN RADIO

■ No race meeting is complete without the tipsters, whose amusing patter never fails to enliven an afternoon's sport, writes "The Picquet" in the "News Chronicle" when describing a recent meeting at Salisbury. "Motorcoaches and private cars bring their loads of visitors from the town and station and put them down on the open side of the course, with its refreshment tents and other familiar paraphernalia, and it is there that these famous Turf advisers take their stand. The modern tipster, however, moves with the times, ■ and an amusing duel between two members of the profession, armed with all the latest aids to' peaceful warfare, was staged on this afternoon.

Mr. X was telling the world all he knew about the racing through a loudspeaker, tricked out on .' top of an elegant saloon car. His opponent, not '100 yards away, stood, radiant in •salmon-pink tulle, before a microphone, which was also worked from a car. The two instruments were pointed one at the other like guns in rival emplacements. The din was terrific. Later, however, one of the loud-speak-ers changed direction, although it continued to discharge its high-powered explosives from an apparently' inexhaustible ammunition supply. The new warfare was discussed with two established tipsters, who, more mobile than their opponents, moved here and there among the crowd. Neither was concerned with what one of them described as the new form of gas attack. "You could come dressed up like Charles Laushton or Greta Garbo if. you liked," said an old hand, "but there's only one thing that matters in our business, and that is tipping winners."