, 1876-07-30
ots of News Of Interest to Low.
ers Of the National Game.
Yacht Races at Geneva Lake and on
the Atlantic Ocean.
Running and Trotting Mattcrs--.
LaCr0sse---Biuiards,
Etc, Etc.
THE NATIONAL GAW,

seller, named Scibert, had made an attempt to
corrupt Mathews Of the Mutuals into selling out
games for money to him paid. The negotiation
commenced when the Mutual Club were here,
aud was carried on during their week at St.
Louis. Mathews had acted in a manly way OIL
receipt Of the first overture, and had shown it
TO- Manager Cantncyer, and plan was concoct-
I'll to catch Mr.. Seibcrt- 1t was entirely sue
cessful, and the would-be corruptionist was
nailed to the cross by the publication of letter
Of lis distinctly pro1fering Mathews $500 game
TO sell out. It should be added that the Chica-
. 70 agent Of Seibert was one Loudcrbcck, for
Incrly an employc Of the W. u. T. Company,
but since discharged.
These disclosures were printed in two OF the
three Chicago morning papers, but the third
wouldn't give publicity to them, because day
OF two previously it had asserted that the club
1nanagcnents were corrupt, and it couldn't
swallow its own words SO quickly.
THE BOOKSELLERS AND OTHER GAMBLERS,
as we'll of Chicago as New York, saw at once, on
reading the Scibcrt disclosure, that it would
rudanger their business of plucking the public
by giving the latter all idea Of the way jobs
were nut up on them; something must be done
to throw dirt on the other side, and only one
avenue was open. Of course they sent to that
paper. In response to their request tncy we're
furnished with d reporter, who wrote up their
allegations in the form OF interviews. About all
tha: two booksellers and Mr.. Loudcrbcck would
be jointly responsible for was that the last
named was. pure patriot, who assisted the
pool-buyers to pluck each other fairly while the
booksellers captured their lions share OF the
money. It was, to say the least, pleasing to
witness the unaaimity with which all three OF
the men testified to the honesty and purity OF
intent OF each other: One point, however, can
hardly be passed over, 1t was matter OF general
notorietv when the Mutuals were about to play
their last game with the Cincinnatis that certain
narties here claimed to have sstixcd the thing'
so that the Cincinnatis were to win. This was
nub1ished in Tue TRIBUNE, and with it the fact
that the management of the CLicagos had tcle-
graphed to Canmcycr, manager Of the a1utua1s,
telling him to look out It should be added to
this, as matter OF
JUSTICE TO THE MUTUAL CLUB,
that the dispatch sent from here to Mr.. Cam
never in Cincinnati never reached him, for the
frst-class reason that he had gone home to
Brooklyn two days before it was sent. It
should therefore not lie considered at all in
commenting on the action OF the AIutuals.
There never was. and is not now, a particle Of
evidence that anybody ever attempted, or pro-
posed. or thought Of selling the game, and the
Mutuals, without manager or any other gov
ernor, simply went on aud won the game, us
they had right to.
Concerning Mr.. Loudcrbcck, who was so
thoroughly yindicatcd u By the joint tcstimo-
NJ Of men from whom he bought pools "as the
agent Of Mr.. Seibert,' - and who appears before
the public in IN attempt to corrupt q ball
PLAYER, also as "an agent OF Mr. Seibcrt,n it
may be worth while to say word: He is, he
says, engaged in supplying to pool-roons and
where; but the public don't know what that
means.
THE METHOD Is AS FOLLOWS:
During tue progress Of q game, say IN New
York, the firm Of Louderbeck Gc Co. ret three
dispatches from there, each containing the re-
suit Of three innings. These cost the firm about
IS per game. They have Tor had) twelve sub
scrlbtrS for this intelligence among the saloons
rents per inning, or $500 per game. It is clear,
then, that the twelve Subscribers paid $500 for
what cost Louderbeck d Co. So, plus the cost
Ut small boys to curry the messages around.
1t will not take thu average reader long to sec
another point i'll this method Of doing business
1t was stated above that Loulcrbcck & Go. re-
relyed one dispatch for each three innings.
When the first one came to hand hc would copy
off on manifold the first inning, and send It
around to his subscribers. Then betting would
reeolnmcnce furiously on the next inning, which
the audience Of betting men naturally supposed
was then in process Of playing, and considerable
sums would bc wagercd that the Alutuals, for
instance, would or would cot make 4 tally in i.
that inning: All the While this betting was go
Ing on the reader is asked to believe that LOU
derbeck,
ttTuE AGENT FOR sE1DERT,"
Kept the other two innings concealed, and never
result aud never gave a .'pointcr" to
simple fools who were betting on
Innings which had long ago been decided: by
ths system Of threc-inning. dispatches, the re-
eeiver here has been certain Of the result o1
a,game before the seventh inning was Posteo III
the poolrooms. And yet the silnpleton VINO
bets On innings is asked to believe that Inc
pool-business is honestly carried on Let US
take IN example well remembered IN Cmcago:
June Is tic Chicago and Mutual Clubs played
game in Brooklyn, and at tho end OF the clShth
inning to score stood to 2 in favor OF Chicago;
In the ninth inning the Alutuals made aug
to 60 into pool-rooln ilabitually will remember
that it was nearly an hour between tue an,
Iouncemcnt Of the eight and ninth INNINGS auo
In tie meantime
EAGER BUYERS WERE FOUND
for every pool offered that the Mutuas would
not score, or for the long odds that the Chlcago5
would win. It almost passes belief that mct
should be crcdulous enough not to see tnat 1t onc
Or two men in every pool-room had the result
full thirty minutes before it was posted Dur
Ing that time they calmly pluckcd the puollc-
Or rather the idiots i'll the public who put then1-
selves in the way to he pluckcd.
That is only ali example. and very lew games
have been played in which others might not DC
found.
a few words in general way on this Pool,
business may be OF use to the amateur gamblers
81 this city who frequent gambling rooms.
Broadly spcaking the man who goes a 1nto 19e.h igst
to bet frnes intA Them tn he rOUbGu-TODDeuJu JUST
as clearly as if he were assaulted on the high
way and deprived Of his money by force Ii ne
bets on innings he is tolcraby sure to be opposeo
by man who is
STALKING his MONEY ON SURE THNd,
very likely with telegram in his pocket g1'1HnG
course the aycrage bettor may be on the TIL
side, and may win, but the chances are Terribly
aanSt him. But the beauty OF xgers tne money
Is always, giving odds to on,v tile vjdneq: RU9t:
be gets his dividend in any case, and tnen' III ~
addition, often employs confederate to,rod to oG'
according to the advance adVeesne mas feciu nt;'.
To understand this, tho reader should I noslic ai
the remark Of Mr.. setbert, tho Brooklyn pool-