Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-06-30

supply the .kale.' A day or two later
ne arrived at Vancouver and rented
an upper chamber in the Windsor Ho-
tel, On Hastings street. f;Isl h5 ar
ranged with the telephone company to
install two telephones in his room and
contracted TO pay a fancy price for
service, when he wanted 1t, to Seattle.
when the races began he installed
quick-witted assistant in the room,
with instructions OF receive results
from the race-tracK on one Of the
phones and to relay them instantly to
his pal at Seattle on the other. The
expensive connection was retained for
an hour or two, at certain period,
| each day. He himself watched the
races and phoned the results from the
track, his track phone being safely
hidden away.
"The 'bookies' and others obtained
their results by commercial telegraph,
! sent from the track to Steveston,
thence to Seattle, this relay involving
J some delay. ..
"It was a simple, sure-thing propo-
sition. The men at Seattle received
| the results about ten or fifteen min
utes ahead of the 'bookies' and ju-
diciously put the money on dead-sure
| thing. Many races had been fun and
the losses were piling high before the
Seattle gamblers grew suspicious.
They acknowledged a loss Of $4,000,
of which the operator who devised the
plan received a fourth. One day the
| track operator became too bold and
the track detectives caught him.
| They took him to an isolated shanty
on the fair grounds and. after giving
him terrible whaling, forced him to
send a message to his confederate at
Vancouver, ordering him to come at
once to the fair grounds. The detec.
tives took him, on arrival, TO the
shanty and he, too, received the beat
ing of his life. The two Americans
put up a terrific fight, however, and
won the admiration of their antagon-
lists. But that ended the little tele.
phone game.
Down at Galveston, Texas, q few
| years ago, local sport, having too
much 'mazuma,' opened up pool-rJom
with sky limit. The Sheepshend bay
races were on. An operator working
In one of the commercial Offices lost a
months salary and 1t maze him sore.
In a chat on the wire, he told his fel.
| lOW-WOrKInan on the new 1OrR quad
about 1t. They put their heads togeth.
er, on the wire, and next day were
ready for business. The man at New
York, utilizing superior facilities,
flashed winner after winner to the
Galveston man from five to ten min.
utes ahead Of the regular poolroom
service. They started in small way,
betting 800 at time, and at the end
of two weeks the pool-room man was
looking for q meal.tiCket job,
Everyone has heard, of course, of
the great overlapping coups, when ex.
Derts smashed pool-rooms as II for
pleasure, but these two incidents serve
to show how the easy money tricks
we're worked"
Are the precautions now such that
the 'bookies' are safer" he was asked
:! Always safe; the 'bookies are the
wisest guys on earth. l passed through
El Paso few months ago, while the
races were on at Juarez. I went with
an operator friend to observe them
He confessed TO pe that the Juare2
temptation was almost more than he
could s:and. Just look at all that
easy money he said, and then he
showed me at least five safe ways in
which he could skin the 'bookies.'
Some day. something will happen
; thete and loud will be the howls OF
the wise ones"