Show Cubans Drive Dodgers Daffy With Their Betting Systems By SID FEDER HAVANA March 11 UP This P-This This is just a friendly tip to Baseball Commissioner Landis You'd better tie a chin strap on that fedora if youre you're planning to drop over and see the Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- lyn Dodgers train Because when you get one look at the ways the boys and girls hereabouts have thought up to bet on the pure sport of baseball that famous sky- sky piece is liable to pop right off your head They'll bet the family jew jewels jewels- ls- ls or una peseta anyway anyway on on any any- thing They'll start with such simpIe simple simple sim sim- pIe things as the next pitch or whether a man on base will score From there they go on to whether the next batter will take two and hit to left or whether Ducky Medwick Medwick Med Med- wick will come up with a brown or white bat or no bat at all All during the game bookmakers bookmakers bookmakers book book- makers run up and down the aisles quoting prices not only on who's going to win but also on the color colorI I of Larry MacPhail's sports jacket creations The pools are something cial Before the game the odds- odds layers are around selling slips sUps each of which has the name of a diamond diamond diamond dia dia- mond position pitcher excepted printed on it These sell for a dime dime up The fellow who who buys the slip on the player scoring the firs first run picks up the marbles at odds odd 5 of 7 to 1 They still tell about one occasion occasion occasion occa occa- sion when the New York Giants Giant 5 trained here back in 1937 Pancho a Snyder was coaching on third anc an and 1 the Giant shortstop had jus just t reached second safely in the firs first t inning The next batter bounced bounce 1 a short single to left It looked hooke ci like ike the runner might have score scored from second but Snyder held him bIn himat ri riat at third The following batte batter r rolled into a double play retiring g the side without the run The fans especially those holdIng holding hold hold- ing pool tickets on the shortstop got up steam with some simple e booing Then they started to corn come e charging down out of the stands stand 5 This was a new wrinkle for Sn Snyder der but he realized they weren't t coming to congratulate him s she so o ohe I. I he lit Ut right out of there |