Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-12-15
MEN RUINED RY POOL
ROOM AND HANDBOOK EVIL
Supporting Cast Of RefWmers, Both
Male and Female. With Former
Turf Shark Before Senstors-ehl
Prohibiting Betting Orders Over
Wire Under Consideration.
lRy Associated Press.l

WASHINGTON. ID. c., Dec. IA
With a SUI porting cast OF reformers.
both male and female, Henry pr0-
Iaski. Ct MCnrovia. Cal. who profess
ed to be a gambler upon race tracks,
was ths. star feature Of hearing To-
day before the senate judiciary com
mission in support of the Bnrkett Dill
To prohibit the transmission OF race
track betting orders over tele graph
or telephone lines. tie told how the
public is mulcted by Lookmakers at
race tracks. by pool rooms and by
hand boOkmakeTs
NJ. Brolaski was one Ct the owners
Of a Mexican track which was regard
cd as the tasis OF gambling opera
cons IN the United Stats and was
put cur q business at the instance OF
the G pertinent OF state through CO.
CD .at.nn with the Mexican govern
uAnt
IL IS now see king to have tracks
In which he has no interest dealt
with ~ Ike manner.
Mostly in New York.
In:coGncing himself as having heen
q GAMBLER. pcol room pror rietor. book
maker upcn race tracks, and a hand
bcokuaker, Brolaski said that amcns
the places he had worked in his line
were Atlanta, Charleston. S. c., New
Orleans. Laton.a. Louisville, and Ben
nings IaCks.
He roughly estimated that there
were now in the United States be-
tween go and 40 pool rooms and that
fifty of these were in NV York city
H calculated that there were In
operation nearly 1900 hand books,
which business he declared operate
as the initiative CT the unsophicated
TO gamble On the horses. He said IN
New York city there were at least
100. 900 hand book and pool room
players and that the evil was grow
ing daily.
The play that is handled by the
hand books and pool rooms" salo
Mr.. BroIaski. is usually from q ciaai
of peorie that can Ill afford TO lose
and their bets average from nifty
cents up. The man OF family VIII
take a chance and lose his board
money; the girl will take a chance
ard use money that she should ex-
pend on herself. II is the greed Icd
more money and the gambling fever
that becomes innoculated into theii
systems and it is growing, growing ali
the time"
Condemns Ticker Service.
Brclaski condemned the ticker ser
vice OF the Western Union Telegraph
Company or sub-lessed lines as
great evil that should be stopped
1T is the service giving the Re
srlts and prices as they finish,' b
/ said.
Pointing cut the poor chance g.vei
the tettor for a returneof any par
of his wager. the witness said that II
a pool room the percentage agains
| the player world run from p 10 l5'
DC. cent. and In a hand book the per
| centaxe was from TO - per cent. 4
rlsyer had that much the worst OF !
10 start with. Brolaski said. and Their
was no possible chance 70 beat tn
fgsmes.
One Way to Eradicate ".
There IS only one means. rai'
Mr.. Brciaski. of putting this evil on
Of business effectually and that = b
the United States eOvernmf Mt enact
ing a law prohibiting the transmits
Sin % pool room and race track IN
, formation over telegraph w'Tes eitne
or MY or in cipher. and by haVtn'
he laws enforced after they ar
r ssed: also prohibiting the use Q
J TIE nails 20 newspapers that pusiisi
race track prices or results.-
Ee sad he could describe 10 IN
| conm-st-e Gees which he had pcT
soraI acqusintaace wis -eADer M
boone absconders drunksrds an
fhiero. ct account % the roOl raon
Z ard hand box cviia
NJ. Nelson Not Wise.
After b. had concluded chairHa'
I Nsle-n. who had n-v-T seen a ra-
aas 1ew nothing q race beiiins
/ rsid.
= thcunhf a pei rom vas = piac'
4here rou paved a game of BILLIARDS
1 Non / wait 10 know what the opera