Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-25
PittSburg Phil'S Manager Tells of a
New Move That Eastern Book
makers Will Make.
THEY WILL ORGANIZE NEW CLUBS.
The Princeton Football Team Writes for q
Date to Play the Local Team
in Pittsburg.
MORE EFFORTS FOR BASEBALL PEACE
The Stallion Nelson Breaks Another Record, and So
Does Nh. Hsmln's Team.

The Eastern bookmakers will inaugurate
a system to-day that will certainly be OF
great interest to everybody who patronizes
sporting events. The system is of great i'm
portance, because it will prove whether or
not book-making firms can evade the law
that prohibits their business. The details
OF the new move were explained yesterday
By Edward Lear, manager of "Pittsburg
PhiPS" business. Mr.. Lear arrived in the
city from New York yesterday and will stay
here until tomorrow evening. During a con-
versation with the writer Mr.. Lear said:
MI. Smith, whom we all know as Phil, has,
along with other bookmakers, been arrested for
betting on a race track and the book-making
firms have resolved to adopt plan which will
keep them safe from the effects of the law.
WILL ORGANIZE CLUBS.
The plan is to have every book-makiug firm
organized into a club, and tomorrow Mr.
Smiths firm will be known as the Jochiel
Club All of our business will be transacted in
that name, and suppose that other firms will
act similarly. The object of this move is that
If we do business as a club The
law officer cannot find out who is
the bonatide proprietor. For instance
If an officer comes and accosts me can swear
that am only an employe of the club, and so
can Mr., Smith. Whether or not the plan will
he successful we don't know, but we have re-
solved to jrv it. One thing is certain viz. that
1t will be difficult to find out when the clubs
begin operations
"An the trouble,' continued Mr.. Lear, .'has
been caused by the selfshness of the New
York pool-room proprietors. They have made
hundreds of thousands of dollars on the races
and have steadily refused to contribute one
cent toward the expenses of the various tracks.
/ will cite case: The Dwyers have track and
a. n "a val ne fOr-r
Ih>re may be an event for a guaranteed purse
tOG which only one horse starts and the attend
ance may be mlserably small That one horse,
Eoweye" can walk over the course and claim
the purse.
THEY WON'T GIVE UP.
The Dryers Will then be losers, and they say
10 .he pool room proprietors: Now, you people
have made fortune out of our races. and YOU
ought in fairness to pay something in return
toward the expenses OF the track To this
question, and it has been asked, the pool-room
proprietors have emphatically declined to fork
out cent As 4 result no information regard
ing the races and their results was al
lowed 10 be wired from the tracks. The pool
room proprletors to get even have unearthed a
very OLD law in New Jersey which forbds bet
Ting on race tracks. and they have enforced the
Jaw. Hence all the trouble. Our new scheme
IS novel one, and l think it will work we'll"
Nr. Lear then went Oh to say c~at ''PittSburg \
Phn' has cleared 100000 this season bv his |
extraordinary nerve and Judgment relative to |
turf matters. In his book-makinC business his |
poorest paid employe receives So per day and /
Others receive as high as SIS per day. He now |
has SIX horses, including a very promising > /
year-old named Nllroy. The youngster will |
not run any until next wear. and Mr.. Lear says |
gooC judges think he will be another Tourna- |
nent. Good things are also said about Mon |
iague, another of ''Phirs'' horses. "Phil'' has 1
decided 10 keep harn and Sluggard gong on |
the winter tracks, and ne expects the former |
to do very well.