The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-09
BASEBALL POOLS IS CONSTRUED
 AS GAMBLING
Tom Lynch and Other Leaders of Game to Aid Authorities
 in Supppressing it

New York. May 9.-President Lynch of the National League of Baseball Clubs will do all in his power to aid the authorities of New York who have discovered and are trying to stop the making of baseball pools.
 Lynch today, land the club owners are opposed to gambling at the ball parks or downtown where pools can be made. We want to keep the Ma .tional game free from this taint and up to. date we. have been rather suc- icessful in doing it. ..
 club permitting gambling on it's grounds may be expelled from the organization. but that provision is en- tirely unnecessary as all of the club owners are watching at all times to keep the gamblers out of their parks.
 '.As member of the National Commission as we'll as being the head of the league I am arrayed against gam bling. It is the one thing alone that always threatens to pull down the game. Baseball at the present time is the big square and honest sport and all must admit that 1t would be foolish not to curb the at- tempt to put it into gambling circles gate receipts. Gambling downtown is up to the authorities and we will help them all that we can."
 Pittsburg, May 9.-sThe man who gambles on baseball is just as obnox- on something else. The practice of gambling in any form is abhorrent, and brings misery always" said Chan celIor S. B. Mccormick, of the Univ ersity of Pittsburg, today. ssN z 'I like baseball and I want to see it kept clean as a sport. am not sure whether law or education will drive away the evil but think edu- cation probably will be the biggest factor. Anyhow, I'm. dead against gam bling in baseball or in anything else."
 a- Boston. May :9.-"These baseball pools or any kind of betting on base ball games are bad-very bad, said Hughey Jennings. manager of Detroit. when told of the organization of a baseball pool in New York. .'I can not believe this New York pool is as bad as 1t is pictured. however, for federal and state authorities have shown by previous actions that such illegal commissions cannot exist long. If 1t took any capital to start the so- called pool I'm inclined to believe it's overdrawn, for it would be too big a risk. .".
 New Haven, May 9.-sT thing gamb- ling on baseball a detriment to the game.''e,. David Fitzgerald, prominent in state boxing circles.
 l. Gambling on baseball will eventu- ally work great harm to the game. F. S. Butterworth, president New Ha- ven A. A C..
 New York, May 9.-The belated discovery: of baseball pools has arous- ed the authorities and today steps are being taken here to. bring about the end of such gambling. Last year some gamblers attempted the same thing that is being put through now. Then they were bolder and started off by sending. booklets, describing their plans. through the mails. A town in Pennsyivania was selected as the home of the gambling corporation and offices were being opened for busi- ness when the officers of the Depart ment of Justice from Washington ar rived.
 The preliminary investigation here has discovered that the baseball pool is today as firmly established in New York aa was the policy game which ruthlessly robbed New York's poor in the past before it was killed.
 The authorities here have been un- able up to the present to find any central organization or any head to this newest gambling scheme. Office boys. elevator men, bartenders and barbers are acting as agents but the police appear to be unable to. find the chiefs.
 The success of the promoters has been such that already scores of pools, each independent of the other, have been organized.