The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-24
BASEBALL POOL MEN ARRESTED IN NEW HAVEN BY CHIEFS SLEUTHS
 BEFORE THE STATE POLICE ACT

matter out successfully. The chief claims that he has ample evidence m all of the cases in which arrests have been made to secure convictions. Chief Tells of Warnings.
 The chief called attention to the fact that he had warned those run ming pools last year to give it up and said that he felt he had treated them with more than ordinary fairness. 'If they desired to keep within the law they would have stopped then" he said last night. This spring the chief has kept a watchfu1 eye on this mat ter and finding that the gambling was still going on decided to go about the stamping out of the practice in a sys- tematic way The warrants were all issued yesterday afternoon and were all served as far as possible last night between seven and eight o'clock. Sev- eral more arrests are expected, how ever, in addition to those which have been made already
 Except for Burch all of the men are connected with the saloon business in one way or another. Ramon was up to two weeks ago bartender in the saloon of Leonard B. McCrann on Con- gress avenue. He is known all over the State as a ball player and has played number of years in the Con- necticut State league. He was to join the Holyoke club to finish out this season some time this week. The Tux edo bowling alleys, of which Janswiek is the manager, is in the rear of Her mann's cafe and is owned by MT. Her mann. The others are all saloon pro- prietors except Crowley who is al- legged to be associated with Carney.
 Spotters Get Evidence.
 The evidence on these various men was secured by hired "spotters" who bought tickets from them, according to the allegation. The arrests are un- der the statute forbidding the sale of lottery, policy Or pool tickets. There seems to be no question of the validity of the charges if the facts against the men can be proved.
 Several tickets were found on several of the men arrested but the biggest hauls were at Carney's place where the officers got 2,5o0 tickets and at Burch's place, where Detective Ser geant Ward and Detectives Dornan and Dunlap found some 15O00 tickets. Bith of these men, it is alleged. have sold thousands of other tickets. The Burch pool is chiefly supported by Winchester employees. Both of these pools are for S1, 300.
 The Game Worked.
 The game is rather complicated one. The player is given ticket with a combination of five teams, one of which is from each of the big leagues in this part of the country, the Ma tional, American, Eastern, Connecticut and New England. The various com binations are drawn. The pool runs week. The prizes are awarded for the combination, the team which made the greatest or lowest number of runs in the week Or in the separate days of the week.
 The question which is botherins many of those who were in the pool was how they will fare out now that the pools are hit. In some of the pools thousands Of tickets have already been sold and unless the pool continues these players will lose their money. As a matter of fact. under strict fn- of the law any persons found with tickets in their possession are liable to arrest and for this reason it is not likely that many of those people holding tickets will put up any loud and long protest.
 The law permits of 8 fine up to s5o0 or imprisonment of one year in Jail or both for the offense charged in these cases.