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Show Officers Uncover Coast Baseball Betting Syndicate STOCKTON, Calif.. May 1 Twelve men were arrested and a quantity of material which the officers ea!d Indicated Indi-cated the existence of a syndicate organized or-ganized for gamlillng on Pacific i oast , league baseball games, was found in a raid on tho Fifty club here Sunday Two of those arrested were charged! with gambling, eirht others with visiting vis-iting a gambling resort and two were accused of violating the prohibition laws. The officers said the material seized Included printed forms with names ofl batters. Including locally prominent I business and professional -"en; gom-j hllntr devices and cancelled checks some for as much as $1,000. . quantity quan-tity of liquor was confiscated. The officers said that apparently as; hlKh as 20 to one was paid on bets that four teams named by the hettor would vln. oo |