Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-24
WAS BETTING ON
TELEGRAPH TICKS
Bookmaker Makes a Cleanup
With Atlantic City Base
Ball Fans.
Bv Clarence L. Cullen.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.


ATLANTIC CITY. October q, 1909.
A n-eyed chap who was at once both
smart and stupid cleaned up pretty tidily
down here during the bulletining of the
first two of the championship games be-
tween the Tigers and the Pirates. His
scheme certainly was smart one: but he
displayed stupidity by working it too hard
and hoggishly. Had he been adroit
enough to bait his bunch of fall guys
by permitting them to win from him &C.
casionally he would easily have got by
with his little frame-up perhaps until the
finish of the championship series of
games and his cleanup would have been
several times larger than it was. His
haul down for the two games was about
$1,000. according to the calculations Of
some men who were watching his betting
operations.
The championship games were played
on one OF the big piers on one of those
electric boards, such as The Star has,
which. by means of cleverly worked cleo
trio bulbs. show every move made on the
base ball diamond. In addition to the
electric board there was a man on the
platform to call off the progress Of the
game. AS a general thing, however, the
people sitting in front of the patent cleo
trio arrangement were aware of what
callers announcement of the moves was
made. for the bulbs illustrating the games
twlnkled increasingly.
Vast numbers of big, comfortable rock
electric board. 1t was coy way of
watching a ball game. and all Of the
chairs We're held down by interested fans
throughout the series. Hundreds Of At
lantic City business men. base ball bugs
OF advanced degree. rocked back and
forth in the chairs watching the unfold
Ing Of the games on the electric board.
and there was big sprnkling of male
visitors who wisely do their seashore loll-
ing down here in the autumn instead of
during the hot crowded months of July
and August.
The pier space devoted to the bulletin
ing Of the games was densely packed
with chairs at premium, when the first
game began to I've unreeled on the board
The telegraphic outfit chirped away mer-
rlly on table placed out of view of the
crowd behind the board. and the partisans
OF the two clubs were kidding each other
at great rate when the bulbs began to
glow on the board.
The sharp-eyed fellow, who had a rock
Ing chair right in the middle three rows
from the front. began to do business as
soon as the game began. He produced a
big wad OF bills, which he proceeded to
fold lengthwise in the way bookmakers'
cashiers fold currency. and soon after the
first man up for Detroit got to the pan,
dCCOIulls " Lille DUllclillluS, lie OcRdn.
I'm laying to l tina, Davy Jcncs
doesn't make first base" he announced
to the bunch around him.
All no nds in his neig,iborhood cilirked
up. Here was a chance TO get little
change down on the games as they went
along. There was nobody around 10 step
betting. The two or three cops who stood
on the fringe OF the crowd nearby didn't
mind the betting. That was made plain
as as the betting began. They rub
haY at the hof p,r v~ra hon
Erinned at each other and busted them
selves elsewhere.
The Detroit rcoters figured that Q to
was pretty good price against Davy
Jones making the first bag. and they
snapped up the odds with five ana ten
spots The last man to take the odds
had barely slipped his money into the
layers hand before the bulbs rwinkled,
announcing that Davy Jones had been
thrown out, trying to bunt, by the pitch
or. TIE money was the layers something
easy.
I'm giving 5 to that Bush doesn' t
make q hit. said the shrewd-eved chap
sanow. black haired fellow Of thirty OIL
around the New York tracks-a little
while after the board showed that De-
iroit's d'minutive shortstop was at bat
NOW. Bush isn't any Cobb or Crawford
but the Detroit bugs knew that Jennings
wasn't putting him second In the batting
order for nothing, So 3 20 that he
wouldn't do anything first time up in the
championship series looked inviting to
them. They thrust their bills at the LAYER
and they were still swapping at the odds
like Great Dane dredging into cooked
beef liver when the bulbs indicated that
Bush had been easily tossed out after
grounding in q lady-like manner
Next up for Detroit was the mighty
king Cobb" and the gang sitting In the
neighborhood Of the fellow laying the
odds were curious to see which side Of tn.