Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-03-30
BASEBALL BOSSES
PUT BAN ON POKER
Most Managers 1I'orbi d
Game Entirely; Others Per
nit ",4en Cent Limit.
iBy Frank 6. Menke, J

Poker, as . form of diversion, is
disappearing from the baseball train
ing camps. In the few camps where
. the managers still permit the old
army" game, the limit is limited
usually to ten cents.
Managers have found that stiff linn
Il poker games lead 10 heavy losses
and resultant Ill feeling among the
players which lessons the harmonious
condition necessary for q ball cubs
lsuccess.
The ban was placed CT dice games
long ago. Some players sill indulge
they cannot subdue the gambling
fever. But those who play do so
against orders from the club mana
gers. And they do it secretly.
Pinochle for small stakes, hearts
at penny heart, rum at a penny a
point and casino for five cents a
game are played quite generally in
! the camps where the managers have
not placed the ban on all card games.
| But that's about as stiff as the games
now run.
The Browns are not permitted to
gamble either Gil training trips or
during the regular season. George
Stovall, manager Of The Newark Fed
erals, has ruled against poker. So
has Joe Tinker, Of the Chicago
Whales. Clarence Rowland, OF the
Chicago White Sex, forbids poker
playing. The Cubs haven't played
poker openly for a couple Of years.
Lee Magee, of the Brooklyn Feds,
permits poker playing the limit
must be very small.
A half dozen other name gers have
ruled against poker playing and II
is noticeable fact that there is a
better feeling among the men on
these clubs than. there is III CLUBS
where poker games with stiff limits
are allowed.
In the old days, and even un 70
few years ago, some mighty stiff po-
ker games were played among the
ball players. One Chicago Am 7rlcan
league pitcher won over $1oP on a
single trip from Chicago to Boston,
and during that season the same
players winnings totaled around
$500. The heaviest loser was d
pitcher who was a recruit that year
but now a regular. He lost nearly
$500 from the time the training camp
opened until June Ia sum equal to
his earnings up to that time.
Some years ago in the Giants
training camp crap games were stag
ed openly But McGraW put the ban
On The game. Despite this, crap was
nlayed under cover one day Hst
spring with the result that one play
ar lost something like 5000 in couple
Of hours. The losses Of one pitcher
ar craps over a weeks stretch are
said 10 have totaled more than 5000.
There have been tim3s-and not
so LONG ago-when ST.. 81 and table
stake poker was played anu when
! there was from $50 to $500 at STAKE
on tho single role of the dice. But
those times are no more.
The managers this year have start
od a general crusade against clga-
re+tp smoking. They assert that
ciqa,ettes shorten the wind and thus
shCrten an athletes career and lessen
~ effectiveness. But the managers
., finding the no-smoke rule hard
ono 10 enforce. The players don
wind the no-poker rule so much nut
tie different as to smoking. Inat
has hecome a habit--a1d a nara 9iit
&c. them to break Publicly ther Oh
s serve e. the rule but in the sec'usion
o eq' their r'' rooms or in some othe' lace &c
W Where ere the managers eyes Go moi
ndnatrate they make up foF los'
. time. -, +bo White
! oia i,as mt in force the most dras.
j. 80 ..l Ie' Of al Ha bars cigars, 2lpe
! nc s ! oisaTettes AID Ii: e-aye,s V1c
have wooed lady nicotine ~ ~