The San Francisco call., 1908-11-02
MONEY ON DUNNE
POOLROOM DRUG

The professional layers Of big wa
gers, basing their odds on a careful
analysis of public sentiment. have Of
fered more than $4,000 on the trium-
phant reelection of Judge Frank H
Dunno. and at odds that would tempt
the veriest piker to lay his money on
Boer Unholz against Battling Nelson.
and have managed to place less than o
per cent OF the total offerings.
Dunno money has been a drug In the
local pool rooms, and in the offices Of
the newspapers through which big
slices at long odds have been offered
With no takers OF even money on
Dunno, the big bettors were forced to
lengthen the price to 2 to 1 and 10 to 4
within ten days. And even those odds
did not tempt the adventurous money
of the allied forces OF graft which are
working night and day to defeat the
honest judge.
No form OF bet against Dunno appeals
to the wise layers In the betting fra
ternity there is the usual ante-election
interest and the big fellows have loaded
the pool rooms up. At Corbett's there
is $4,000 Dunno money going begging.
One-half of this sum is offered at even
money that Judge Dunno will receive
more votes than any candidate for SUI
perior judge. That bet analysed is a
10 1 bet or Dunno against the field.
but it has failed to attract anti-Dunne
money. Another $4,000 at Corbett's is
offered at to 1 that Dunno is elected.
The Taft odds offered at Corbett's are
below those obtainable locally and far
below the eastern prices, where the bet
ting holds at 8 to and TO 1 on the
success of the republican national tick
ct. Corbett announces that he has vir-
tually limitless money at to L on Taft,
but not the same enthusiasm attends
the announcement of takers for that
money at thosesodds There Is plenty
of even money that Bryan will carry
San Francisco. and the speculation on
Bryan and Taft as the favorites in San
Francisco is the one brisk branch of
election betting. There is no dearth
OF bettors who are willing to lay either
way at even money.
The best local bets on the national
results were made by Frank Daroux,
the Sausalito poolroom man. Daroux
got down $3.50 at 31k to 1 on Taft
with one Bryan enthusiast who laid his
money in two bets. John Payne of
Cincinnati nibbled at $500 worth of the
Bryan end against $1,750 of Daroux' 5
money and came around the next day
with $1,000 which he wanted to place
at the same odds. Daroux, who has
never established a reputation as a
Col c1c6S VI 6CAcEOuS OOllOIs SOL So.0UU
on top of Payne's $1,000 before the man
from over the Rhine had a chance to
change his mind.
The outcome OF the national contest
in Maryland and Nebraska has also at
tracted some attention in the local
poolrooms. At Corbett's the men with
the Taft money want the long end OF
the bet at the rate of $500 to $1,000
that the secretary OF war carries the
commoner's state. They offer the same
short end on the result in Maryland.
Two commissions at Corbett's. which
on their faces appear to be good pick
ing, have gone begging. The first OF
these is plenty Of money at 2 to 1 that
Cabaniss beats Golden by 5000. and
the second is even money that Murasky
will beat Melvin for the supreme bench
by 10000 In San Francisco.