The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-24

New Haven. May 24-The first blow against baseball pools that has beer struck in this State was delivered last night by Chief Cowles of the local po lice department, at whose orders six arrests were made of persons charged with selling pool tickets. Those ar- rested included several well known saloon keepers and others of promi- hence in the sporting world. The six arrested were:
 George Ramon, the former State league ball player.
 Arthur Janswick, a prominent bowl CT and manager of the Tuxedo bowl ing alleys in Church street.
 Louis lime. proprietor of Hotel Mo- zart at 66 Crown street.
 John J. Carney, who runs saloons at 397 Grand avenue, and 227 Blatch- ley avenue.
 John Crowley, an associate with Carney.
 .C1uen Burch. an employe of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company who, it is alleged, has been running a pool from his home. Burch is held under $1,000 bonds and the others un- der bonds of $500 apiece.
 That baseball pools were being play ed to great extent was an open secret not only in this city but in every city in the State Indeed the baseball pool had apparently become an institution all over the country. It is stated that this method of gam bling has become much more popular than playing policy or lottery were even in their prime. There has been considerable adverse criticism of the running of these pools all over the State, but up to last night no steps had been taken by the authorities of any of the cities to apprehend those running the various pools.
 The extent to which the gambling on baseball pools has gone may be seen when it is appreciated that in the big pools there are something like %, 900 combina tions. Each of these chances is sold at from ten cents to a quarter and in some cases for more than that. The usual price for a chance however, is twenty-five cents.
 Thus it will be seen that on a sim gle weeks pool the packers could clear up $1O,O00, less than half of which goes out on the prizes. The first prize in the big pools was usually $1,- 800, the second, s750, and the others correspondingly large. It is alleged that of those arrested last night Car ney and Burch were running pools, the first prize in which were $1,500.
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 The arrests of last night came like lightning flash out of a clear sky. The packers of the various pools had been lulled to apparent security by what they took to be the apathy Of the police, and had apparently given up any effort to even keep the pools secret. Throughout the shops and even among business men these had become an ordinary thing.
 Chief Cow1es stated last night that he has been working on these cases for the past four weeks. The arrests last night were especially interesting, in view of the statements made yes terday by Chief Eagan, of the State police, that if something was not done he would throw the State police into the city to cope with the situation. Whether or not this had anything to do with the hastening of the arrests it is impossible to say. The evidence in these cases has not been gathered by the regular detectives or police officers, but by men especially hired by Chief Cowles for this purpose. The chief feared that the regular men might be too well known to carry the