Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1916 — GAMBLERS GET EARLY START [ARTICLE]

GAMBLERS GET EARLY START

Try to Obtain Foothold by Publishing Odds on Race in Major Leagues— Syndicate Active. Judging” from reports coming out of New York, It looks as if the gambling element is trying to obtain a foothold again in baseball, writes Ralph Davis in the Pittsburgh Press. Odds have been published on the coming major league races, and the chances are that a bookmaking syndicate is already ln -metropolis. It is to be hoped that the powers that be in the national past|me will not relax their efforts to ' keep the sport free from the gamblers’ taint, and that every possible effort will be made to squelch the bookies before they get a fair season’s start in their operations.