Word: tipstering
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...Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher started A. Mutt in the San Francisco Chronicle as a race track tipster, in 1907. Little Jeff was the inmate of an asylum Mutt visited to make wild bets in peace. Swift, efficient bundle of nerves, Mr. Fisher ran with Walter Eckersall on a championship team at the Penn Relays 25 years ago. His income, somewhere near $200,000, affords him art and idea assistants...