Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-20
TAKING OFF THE LID
What Troubles the Inhabitants
of New York.
POOL ROOM PROPRIETORS
Having Difficulty in Getting Racing
News Promptly.
FOR SUNDAY ADJUSTMENTS
Base Ball Games Expected to Be Per-
mitted-The Sunday Saloon
Wide Open.
special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
NEW YORK. May 10. 1905.
Uneasy lies the town that wears a lid"
the old proverb has been paraphrased New
Yorks uneasiness is but fading memory,
family outlined on the screen of the past
About the only sembiance of lidlke condi-
lions left in Gotham nowadays Is the diff
Guilty the army Of amalgamated pool room
proprietors are laboring under In their en-
deaVor TO get racing news and to evolve
some scheme by which the delayed and
censored news which finally reaches them
does not reach the other fellow first. This
restricted gambling phase Is not due to the
authorities. but to the efforts of the Jockey
Club. which controls all the running tracks
In the east. Bennng included. The racing
magnates have determined to save their
own necks by trying to break those of the
pool room gentry.
The farmers from up state were nrettv
well stirred up about race track gambling
during the session of the legislature lust
closed. and. while the anti-race-track bill
was Killed IN committee this year, the
racing off1cials realize that something radi-
cal must be done to vethe sport In this
state, which Is really the backbone of the
American turf. Without the rich prizes
which are raced for over the metropolitan
tracks thoroughbred breeding would not be
profitable and good horses would be thing
of the past. The racing men claim the real
harm or the sport Is done in the pool rooms
The entrance fec to the New York race
tracks Is now 50 steep that 1t is no longer
poor mans game. and unless a person
las money and lots OF 1t his visits to the
tracks must be few and far between. The
difficulties OF reaching the tracks and the
time required for the journey make it NEG
essary that one should have at least half
holiday or from work to invade the betting
ring. with all its glittering possibilities and
Its dull gray disappointments. Thus an
other obstacle presents itself to the young
proportions. The initial outlay for days
racing Is at least Stand no spiker" can at
ford It.
influence Of the Pool Room.
But with the pool rooms It is different.
They are scattered all over the city and
present . continuing temptation for the
clerk or small wage-earner to slip around
and put q small bet down on some favorite
horse. This interferes with his work and
makes him lose his small earnings, to say
nothing OF the fact that when he chances to
win the odds offered by the ungenerouG
pool room sharks are out Of ali proportion
to those available at the track and which
must be available II one II ever to keSp
anywhere level with the game. II the track
owners are able to crush out the pool rooms
they feel the sport II saved for SOME years
to COME
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