The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-13
D||VKENSP|EL ASKS
EXCLUSIVE REPORT
Poolroom War Takes on New
and Generally Interest
ing Phases.
ILLUMINATING FIGURES
Payment of $500 Per Day
for Information by Wire
Only One Item.
ILLUMINATING FIGURES

Fuel was added to the flame Of the
local pool room war yesterday wher
joe Dinkenspiel filed suit i'll the Thiro
district court against Mont Tennes and
c;hcrs, composing the General News
arcau, claiming that that concern mao
violated a contrac! made last February
by which he was to be furnished the
exclusive racing news of the country In
taiS territory.
Dinkenspiel asked that a restraining
order be issued to prevent the dcfend-
ants from continuing to furnish the
news which hc alleges he had con
t,nctcd Tor 10 w II. BrinkWorth, Inc
pctition was presented to Judge George
e., Armstrong, who refused to Issue tue
temporary restraining order, but did ls-
sue au order 10 show cause why such
an order should not be made return
able Thursday.
Long Legal Battle,
The war between the pool room
operators has been carried on FOR sew
cru months in this city. Last week
a case was decided in the district court
in which Tennes applied for and re-
cevcd temporary restraining order
,uioining Dinkenspiel from using track
information from Butte, Mont. In
toe complaint it was alleged that
D;nkenspiel was secretly obtaining the
information for which Tennes and his
associates were paying $3.50 a day
from the Butte Jockey club, presum-
ably on an exclusive contract.
The order was made by Judge F. Z.
Loofbourow, and few days later
f)iuk kapSpiaI ur,s cife1 into court for
contempt of the order, and after u
hearing was fined $50 by Judge Arm
strong The following day, on motion
Of Attorney Soren X. Christensen, rep"
rescnting Dinkenspiel, the temporary
restraining order was dismissed by
Judge NJ. l.. Ritchie.
Claims Sliding Scale.
In the action started yesterday by
Dinkenspiel he alleges that he had
contracted with Tepnes to pay fer the
news on a sliding scale Should the
days betting at his pool room aggre-
gate $1,000 on any one day, then Tennes
was to be paid $50 that day for the
eastern race track news and 500 for
the western track news. Should the
betting fall below $4,000 any one day,
the rate for such days was To have
been 500 and $45 for eastern and
western news. respectively DlnkenSplel
alleges that notwithstanding that his
contract was signed in good faith
in February, Tennes began Oh
August | to furnish the news to Brink
worth and disregarded the original
contract entirely.
In the meantime the public is being
given an opportunity of securing some
insight into the cost of operating a
betting business in Salt Lake county,
Costly Information.
Tennes and his associates, in their
original complaint, said that they paid
the Butte track $25 a day for the news
which they distributed to various pool
rooms.
Dinkenspiel AYERS that he was to
have paid Tennes minimum of $145
a day for the news. In addition to
this the pool rooms pay the county
$500 month as license fee, and
still have to pay their operators and
rent, which is variously estimated at
from $40 to 500 q day.
At one time the pool room operators,
through Attorney Willard Hanson,
offered to pay the city an annual IL
cense of $4,000, payable in advance,
for the privilege Of operating in the
city