Show HAVE THE MAGNATES TIME TO TACKLE THIS By RALPH S. S DAVIS Baseball pools Illegal megal In every sense of ot the word are operated operate all an allover allover anover over the tho country this spring PiUs Pills burg Is a veritable hotbed hotbed 1 of at them the The They are known under various names and backers o of these thle schemes mes have gone In working out the details In their heir efforts to catch the coin of at the Eric Erie Isone Isone is isone common people The Fort one of ot the most elaborate in existence It t is operated from Cana Canada a. a It has C agents in almost every ery city east of oC the Mississippi l he river and m l makes es the specific announcement on all its literature that no communications r re received re- re ct through the mail mall will be ac ac- ac All An monc money paid for tor tickets must be he turned turne o cr to Its Us authorized t rn In the agents who are are said ald to turn coin via express companies The grand prize In the the- Fort rib and a a. number of oC the other pools is 1000 per week for high score and the he prize money totals more moie than per week In man many of or the pools there are ml midweek w ek prizes and anda a number r of oC other inducements to the public to get rich quick It Is 18 hardly possible to estimate the damage done by these nefarious lotteries lotteries lot lot- teries tents The They I interest terest not only men hut ut thousands of ot women and chil children ren office olce boys bos stenographers clerks and others who invest 25 5 cents or more morein morein morein in tickets week after week in the hope that some da day they'll be I luci lucky y I Baseball men are alarmed over the I prevalence of ot the tho pool habits Th Their lr alarm Is caused not only b by the fact tact that the pool business is undoubtedly hurting the baseball business to an appreciable extent There are arc any number of ot persons who have only 25 or 50 cents a week for tor spending in mane money Heretofore they I have invested In It in a n. baseball ticket on Saturday afternoon when they were at leisure Now many of ot them are buying a weekly pool ticket with It it it an and getting their baseball second second- handed Their only interest In the sport appears to be bo how many runs this thiN or that team tam made on a certain day It Is not Improbable that In the near future the baseball powers that be will viii take definite and drastic c steps to stamp out this evil which Is growing growing grow Krow- ing so rapidly that It I is almost impossible Impossible im impossible im- im possible to gauge at present Its reach and its Influence |