The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-13

includes Greater New York, Jersey
City and Newark.
Today the gamblers brother declares
that Allen was slain by carefully ad-
ministered poison. That is possible but
improbable. If true, it is a matter for
police investigation.
What is important about the death
of 1.-THE" Allen is tina his campaign
against race-track gambling was as
potent as that of Governor Hughes
himself to end betting at the great
metropolitan tracks. And, strange
anomaly of existing conditions, Allen,
the poolroom king and relentless foe of
race track betting, who gained a geld
en- store of wealth from those who
wager on the running of the horses,
personally sconcd at those who bet
and told them more than once that they
were poor fools to stake their wage
against another's game.
1 saw The Allen about one month
before he died n talked with him as I
had many times before in his fine old
home, just off Fifth avenue. And be-
cause ''The" Allen KNEW what he was
talking about, his opinions on race-horse
gambling are of interest to those who
try "to beat the ponies"
You want my advice on how to beat
the game?" said Allen, as he lay
propped up in an easy chair with his
poor withered legs on a cushion. well.
sonny, there is just one sort of advice
and 1t is summed up in one word,
Don't
Jibes Mt "Suckers.,
81 know what 1 say. because l have
seen more ruined lives from betting on
the races than any man in the greater
city. No man can peal the races. Do
you suppose that August Belmont and
his crowd are in the game for their
health? Do you think hat 1 was in
the game for MY health? The race
track crowd n the poolroom interests
are simply making suckers of those
who bet. We saw the chance to take
the public's money and the fool public
has fallen, as it always did, and appa-
rently always will, for the plant of
others.
~"Gnmbling is hell for the bettOrs and
L know ID. l have never been a saint
and 1 am not my brothers. keeper, nor
ever want to be, but 1 Will say tina
when I've seen some young fellow with
bright prospects whom 1 knew start
ing to play the ponies, Nv had the
grace to tell him that he was a fool
and that he would end a suicide or a
disgraced man, If he played the game
to the end
81 never saw a horse race In my life.
/ never wanted TO see one. 1 was too
busy right here in little old New York
taking the easy money from the asses
who tried 10 beat my game!
Il preach no sermons and I've taken
my money where I've found it, but 1
to say right here that it will be
a blessing for the State of New York
when its Legislature makes race-bet-
ting a felony punished by fine and i'm
prisonment.
That's what they did in New Jer-
continued The with a savage
smile, and it cost me tens of thou
sands When l was unable to clear on
he crooked races at Guttenburg, Cliff
ton and Gloucester. New Jersey ap-
to wake up to the fact hat
race-track gambling meant ruin to hun
1reds and thousands of its citizens and
the damnable game.
Has that happened in New York?
Well, l am no especial admirer of
Hughes. but in the name of
he future happiness of tens of thou
of wives and mothers, / say God
speed to him in his crusade to wipe out
he wealthy rascals who form the rae
trust of New York State.
Hughes has lost his fight tempo
'arily, but he will win out il the end.
will win because his fight is a right
'ul one and one that will prevent the
'ools from casting their earnings into