Show FAKE POOLS DO I BIG DAMAGE TO NATIONAL GAME In Pittsburgh They Cleaned Up UpS During One Series ANS playing In public baseball r ft F FAs L pools pool will do well to read how f fI I I tho they are stung 1 The September I Baseball magazine has an article exposing ex ez posing the crooked work Following t is part of or the magazine mas article A IA gambling spirit seems to have 1 seized upon the national game In Inmany Inmany I Iman man man- many parts of at tho the country colossal crooked syndicates lotteries or pools poola I have sprung up attained a mushroom growth sucked a 4 tainted fortune out of oC the lifeblood of ot tho gamo game and withered with with- withered ered away in the fierce glare of ot legal retribution only to bo be succeeded by other syndicates elsewhere So widespread widespread wide wide- j spread Is the evil so 80 menacing In its scope that tho concerted effort of ot fr 1 baseball aligned with tho the authorities 1 nt nl In and ord r r. r In Is lv q Id t to preserve re v tho the tho g game t from t that same malignant influence which has baa blighted so many other favorite sports sport 1 Honest baseball pools are no new J thing The They exist In a small and and- amateur scale in almost every office building In every hamlet in the country coun coun- try It has become a n. habit with young 1 men to set apart GO 60 cents or 1 a a. week of oC their savings to pla pha place e in a pool with their associates the whole sum going at al the end of ot the week to the fortunate individual who se selected selected selected se- se the tho team scoring the greatest great great- est cst number of oC runs This custom IB Is a rather mild symptom of oC a general lov lova 1 of ot risk and chance which reaches a afar i far more sinister form torm In the patronage patronage patron patron- age of or public pools 3 But fake public pools the open- open law defying swindles of ot the professional professional professional gamblers merit no such passive passive passive pas pas- sive Indifference pools Ilka ilke poisonous growths have no proper I. 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D I I rather fatten fatton upon it its public popularity popular popular- ity and confidence and in the end tend to break down and destroy the tbs solid structure of the sport Itsel itself Such Such I pools are arc a f freal real menace As typical of oC the methods pursued I Ib b by these parasites may be taken the I case of ot a pool operated In Pennsylvania Pennsyl- Pennsyl 4 vania vanla but It had ramifications all over the eastern castern United States and the middIe middle mid mid- dIe dle west A list of or Its prize winners for one week shows names scattered over no less than six states Some Somo revelations of at the size and scope of ot the company were ere brought to light in the tho trial which exposed tho working of ot the colossal swindle We Ye quote from the sworn evidence as produced in that trial when hen tho the superintendent of the printing concern which did all of at the printing for tor the I syndicate was undergoing exam cross i What was the tho average a number of or lottery slips and tickets printed for forthe forthe forthe the company It ranged from Iron to to- 7 three times a week week- How many tickets did you OU print week weekly for tor the pool Well the highest for tor a week frock was Wen Well what was as the average weeks week's quantity They started at about a 3 week and kept Increasing every even week In passing it Is wen welt to mention that the gross Jross receipts from these tickets at 30 cents apiece was was for tor the hl highest hest week 1 President Dreyfuss of oC the Pittsburgh PIUs Pitts burgh club said in the baseball magazine maga maga- zine We Investigated In and round that tho the pools poole were getting setting more money out of ot Pittsburgh than the Pittsburgh ball club In one week we e estimated as nearly nearh as we could on the actual figures that they absorbed from that one city We also Investigated investigated gated and found that a considerable number of oC alleged prize winners did not live at the addresses that appeared or were missing from the tho city directory directory directory tory or hadn't received any prize prize- mone money One of the tho worst features of I all these pools is that even with the tho heavy odds acids against him that are the nature of oC a lottery the purchaser of ot otone one of ot the lying tickets doesn't get set atall a a. fair tall chance to win He has members of the concern to compete against and andall andall andall all kinds of oC crooked work to contend with so that the prizes which are actually given are the smaller ones and In no case the tho larger amounts al alleged alleged al- al leed In the lIsts Hats The Pennsylvania distributed Its tickets through fifty agents who in turn had harl subagents who supplied stead steady customers It Its payments for tor police protection and other forms torms of or Illegal connivance with th the authorIties authorities authorities author author- totaled for one week It maintained an office staff of ot thirty clerks and antI yet et its weekly profits were OOOO Another pool averaged a profit prof prot- it of another and many manly others all cut their individual slices from the Juicy melon of or public gul gui For amid all these colossal operations the fact tact stands out conspicUOUS conspicuous that tho on only 1 prizes actually given flyen were the smaller ones except In certain well wen marked cases caes where re renew new territory was being exploited There ma may be honor among thieves but the lottery lotter kings were wore Sure of enormous profits they hogged the whole |