Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1911 — TO MAKE BOOK ON BASEBALL [ARTICLE]

TO MAKE BOOK ON BASEBALL

temblors, Finding Turf Betting Dwindling Proposition, Prepare to Invade National Pastime. Gamblers who have lost business because they could not arouse bettors to Interest in the running races at iamestown and'Pensacola have turned to baseball with the opening of the season, and already handbook men snd others are preparing to drag the p-eat American sport Into the betting ring. Betting schemes which have been known In Pittsburg, Boston and Buffalo for some years are being introduced in New York, and it is likely they will be followed by attempts to “make book” at the grand stands. Handbook men who operate on Broadway from Forty-sixth street down to Fourteenth began to take bets on the results of games with the very first contest of the season. Ticket speculators, whom the new'ordinance has driven to cover and trouble, have also gone Into the business. Enright, the well-known commissioner, who handles much money on races and acts for poolrooms in New 'York and Cincinnati, has prepared the most comprehensive scheme of all. He has solicitors out seeking clients for a weekly pool on the number of runs made by clubs In the American and National leagues. He has figured out that 1,500 combinations of four clubs of sixteen In the two leagues may be made, and a ticket on each of these sold for $1 will bring In $1,500 a week. Here is the list of prizes his solicitors have offered: First prize, on highest total of runs made during six days’ play by a combination of four clubs, |3OO. Second prize, for second highest total made by a combination of four clubs, SIOO. - Third prize, SSO. Booby prize, for lowest number of runs made by a combination of four clubs, SSO. Dally highest score of a combination, S4O. Dally lowest score, $lO. Thus the gamblers can pay out only SBOO a week out of the $1,500 taken in. That gives them a percentage of between 75 and 100 per cent. “May be there are bettors In New. York who will like that kind of a game,” said a gambler. “There are more farmers In this city than In any agricultural state in the union and such p plan ought to prosper. “But, you consider that in faro bank the player has less than one-half-of 1 per cent, and that In roulette he has between 5 and 6 per cent, against him, can you Imagine how a sane man will prefer to lose his money against such a bunk and still keep away from a faro layout?”