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Show BEAT A CBAP GAME WITH BAD BICE FOB 87200. SARATOGA. Nov. 18. The " sportinf world centers here have learned that the. Empire club, one of the gambling "Joints" of the Spa, had been fleeced out of J72O0 by trickster Id the last few eights. The Empire club Is one of the second-!lasa second-!lasa gaming houses In town, but well Known. A big crap game is Its specialty. It was over the crap table that the club was victimized, and two ex-New York-room York-room employees worked the trick with the aid of two confederates on the outside and a set of crooked dice. As soon as the Empire club proprietors learned of the plot and the consequent discrepancy tn the cash box which banked the game, the entire crap-playing paraphernalia was dumped Into the street and the men under un-der suspicion discharged. It appears that the grafters managed to have thenrwelves appointed cashier and raker, respectively, to the big crap games. For three days a circle of players beat the game so consistently that the pro prietora' suspicions were aroused. Investigation Inves-tigation disclosed the simple and effective ef-fective plan of substitution of fake dice at the moment the outside confederates needed a certain point to win. However, the discovery did not esxne.aoon enough to head off the loot of C2PO. Crap playing play-ing Is now a thing of the past at the Empire. |