Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-24
WAR TO THE KNIFE.
Law and order Authorities Mean to
Close the Guttenburg
Track for Good.
DESPERATE STRUGGLE EXPECTED.
Interesting Baseball Gossip About the
Louisville Club and Fred
Pfeffer.
DESPERATE STRUGGLE EXPECTED.
A NEW LOCAL LEAGUE TO ORGANIZE.
Ted Ptchard Sent TO Jail for Month-General Sport
ing News Of the Day.


NEW YORK. Jan. 2S.-The war between
Guttenburg's big four and the Law and
Order League is attracting attention from
all sorts and conditions of people in New
Jersey. The state of New Jersey politics
that permits such open violations of the law
as she maintenance of Guttenburg, is bring
ing high officials into disrepute. The Law
and Order League are apparently tireless,
and claim that they will resort to the most
extreme measures in order to close the track.
Every effort will be made to pass pool bill
this winter, and if such a measure goes
through it will be the death kneil of Gutten-
burg Thompson, of Gloucester, wants a
bill. and it goes without saying that Mon
mouth, Elizabeth, Linden and Clifton want
legislation that will enable them to open
their tracks and race in seasonable weather
under the guardianship of the law.
The HocuIs' Oath.
The moguls of Hudson county have sworn
that there will be no pool bill, and Thomp-
son. of Gloucester, as vehementlv declares
thar there will be ahill. The Hudson county
authorities would rather have matters con-
tinue IN their present shape, as they were
thus able to race without opposition,
whereas, with Linden, Elizabeth and Cliff
q great many DAYS. The men on the hill
top are becoming desperate, as is shown by
their actions in engaging police and pre-
venting the constaSles of the Law and Order
League from entering the grounds TO serve
warrants This sort of thing will continue
probably until some fine dav in the heat of
passion revolvvers are drawn, murder will
be done, and then the public will see that
GuttenburC's gates are closed and remain
closed. RevolrerS were fiourished on the
hilltop when Captain Jack Graham made
his first raid. 1t is evident that the pool
room rnen in this State, and particularly in
New York City, are going to have
The Figh: of Their Lives,
as Assemblvman Shields, OF Kings county,
has presented bill at Albany, which, if
passed, makes it a miSdemeanor for any
person or persons TO register or record any
bets or wacers on the speed or endurance
Of any horse or other animal, ex-
cert on the race tracks or
grounds of an incorporated association.
The commission fake will not work if this
bill goes through, as there is neatly
worded clause which puts IN end to that
subterfuge. This commission dodge is the loop
hole through which every pool seller ever
arraigned in this city inveriablv escapes
ANYBODY who knows anything about pool
room keepers and their methods is aware
that the special wire used by them is for
the purpose OF receiving track quotations
and other Information from their corre-
spondents, and that not a cent is ever LAID
~ the track unless in the way of "hedge."
Philip J. Dwver, President of the Brooklyn
,Jackoy Club, gets the credit of being behind
this new move against the poolrooms There
are fully 100 poolrooms in operation in New
York alone