Show Ute Scoreboard By Dick Ek J A Little Sick What's wrong with big time Never in history has such of corruption and crime run Football professionals a wave Merle Hapes and Frank Filchock Rocky Grazianno receives bribe offers A basketball in the Something m definitely rotten in sports and it looks as though the rot has a good chance of But these attempts to corrupt athletics are as holding a candle to the sun when compared to what goes on m the of and receives relatively little scandal The Races Horse racing is a fantastic seven billion dollar a year Yes seven billion That's a bigger business than the steel or movie industries in these United And the figures have quoted are placed in what can be called the conservative To be so the turf sport must be highly It is even better than for there is hardly a town in the country that is too small for any little bettor to be able to put his on a sure thing in the fifth at Except for one or more wagers are made on the nags by about people who have never seen a race horse in their The idea of easy money is draws them like so many To put it in round about six billion dollars was handled tax free by thousands of illegal A common but secret goes on when public officials are corrupted and criminal and political groups are in a constant turmoil trying to get all 10 fingers in the juicy pie for more than their share of the lush Vice is supposedly against the But when have you ever heard of such evil smelling politics as exist in some towns where the municipal budget is estimated far in advance and used the fines on bookies as a regular item The bookies are raided once a month and fined according to their volume of I haven't the space here to write the statistics which show many prominent people to be heavily in playing the But I cannot pass the chance to mention one baseball recently much who was nearly banned for eternity from his game because he was too friendly with the Many of the prominent personalities use all sorts of clever blinds to carry on their Probably the most interesting case is that of the Connecticut doctor who employs an extra to keep track of his betting- system and cany on other These may appear to be staggering They are a very few of a great The seven billion dollars spent annually on the horses is an awful lot of But you can divide that figure by 53 and still have the amount that the Red Cross takes in annually in their March of In a the racing racket takes in more than four times our national income from No Fumigation lit seems that to attack racing is futile for two The first is that many states have become so to in the racket by passing legislation in the form of taxation that nets them close to in a That's a big source of as a wartime the race tracks were closed for five three states had hurried legislative sessions to frame new tax Nevada is the only stats that is really above board about the whole The second reason is the fact that the little guy who has to bet does not want to give up the chance that may turn that into or Any effort to stifle the bookies does not work out simply because the public wants to play the horses and is willing to go to any shady places to lay a To have money is to have The big time bookies are if raided without their knowledge and often their If the people are loud m their outcry for reform and abolition of vice in a certain the bookie is fined some amount not a peanut in comparison to his If the reform voice is not so the police usually report simply evidence to Say the Least Any spirit in sports but that of betting seems to be When running into the billions of dollars is appropriated year for some national purpose plenty is heard J Ay appropriations are cut to save a few millions our national when six or seven 25 over the sills ot betting windows for of which bag of groomed f w firsti little if anything is said and those of us git thingS f Can who is a wade a lousy w m open he Ule That may be the the trouble with e country as a whole for it g at least in seems to have died |