Show BAN JOHNSON AGAINST BETTING i I President of American League I Orders Club Owners to En Enforce Enforce force Gambling Rules Chicago Aug 5 Efforts to stamp out gambling in baseball will immediately be made by b the American league President Ban Johnson of the league it is an announced announced today toda will issue a bulletin to every American league e club calling atten attention attention tion to the prevalence of ot and I asking each club owner to enforce to the letter the section of ot the league con constitution constitution prohibiting betting President Johnson Johnon figures that in order to discourage e the gamblers it may ma be necessary to place under arrest every everyone one caught eau ht making bets at nt n a ball baU park parl If the city police cannot be trusted to enforce the order he will recommend t the club owners assign a force of private vate detectives to ferret out the bettors and those receiving bets There Is no question but the gamblers ham bIers who have ben been put out of business by ad adverse adverse verse legislation against the turf have flocked to baseball said Mr Ir Johnson It Jt has become an evil which must be nipped now If It the game is to be kept clean Of Ot course I am powerless to do anything against the handbook makers around town outside the ball grounds and that is up to the authorities of ot the different cities Gambling inside the American league grounds around the circuit however must be suppressed at once |