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Show "ilLYER BELL" RILEY IS SERIOUSLY ILL Chicago, Maj 1 J Colonel "Silver Bill" Riley, ouo of the best known race track and poolroom men of thirty thir-ty years ago is critically ill at a hos pital here. Riley's gambling rooms In Calhoun place in the early '80s, when there was no check here on games of an kind, were well known from coast tj coasL Calhoun s place at that lime was known as "Gamblers' Alley." When a reform wave stopped gambling gam-bling Riley moved to New Orleans He acquired his sobriquet from hl3 wealth of silver white hair. How he came to be known as colonel was never known, but the title was never questioned. |