Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-20
smith JOINS MIDDLEWEIGHT JAM:
OBJ. STOCK PUT ON CURB MARKET
New York Brokers Sell Bets
On Total Number Of Runs
Made in Big Leagues
Each Day.
By JACK VEIOCK.

SN~" VI tsAey sFeht W caJ
or sell few shares Of o. b.
Any day you feel like it all you
need do is visit the curb in Wall
street, and there you will find regular
brokers ready and willing to talk
business with you. \
Ever hear of o. B.? Certainly YOU
have, for y. B. is short for Organized
Base Ball. But as a staple stock on
regular market like Wall street
you probably have not heard about
it at all.
o. B. is quoted there. and every
week day ii is bought and sold with
just as much excitement as many
other stocks
No, you can't find o. B. on the
ticker. 1t isn't clicked off daily with
quotations On United States Steel or
Anaconda Copper, but it can be found
On the curb, and it is perhaps the
most unique of all the stocks.
In fact, 0. B. excels some of the
railroad stocks. and ito publicity along
Wall street casts a shadow over a
quarterly report on U. S. S. You can
buy 100 shares of O. B. at $3.50, or
you can dig down as deep as your
bank roll goes and plunge the whole
works. 1t makes no difference to
the brokers. You can either buy o.
B., or sell il short, and your choice in
the matter, Of course, will depend
on conditions. The conditions in
question are none other than the we'll
known ant tickle weather conditions,
that are watched like hawk every
day by the plungers who deal in O. B.
Here's the inside stuff:
Based on Number of Runs. 4
O. B. stock is based on the number
of runs made daily in the two big
leagues. The statistical fiends have
figured it out that the happy average
is forty, though, of course. the aver
age depends largely on how the pitch
ers in general are working, and how
the weather man is behaving. Some
times the quotations fuctuate from
forty to sixty, and the man who buys
or sells the stock takes his chances
just as the man who takes a plunge
in steel or wheat.
If the quotation today If forty. and
you believe more runs will be made,
you buy the stock. If you believe the
total will be under forty you sell the
stock short at that price. If you buy
at forty and the total goes over that
figure you p-oft at the rate of $40 for
every $3.50 you have invested. If
you sell snort and you've guessed
right, your profits amount to the same
thing. It's all up to your ability to
guess the weather and your luck if
all the teams play. It's a great little
stock, this o. B.
A wire from Boston or Chicago
which says that the weather is murky
or that rain is falling may set the
market in bearish turmoil. unless
there are a lot of double headers
scheduled. Bright sunshine, on the
other hand, will generate a bullish
sentiment and the market will go UP.
Wild rumors that affect O. B. are
often put into circulation. but the
wise bugs get their tips from the gov
ernment's weather report or the ears
in the upper corners of the morning
papers. -
Dealing in o. B. is a great little
pastime. II you don't believe it try
it yourself.
Fabrique Now Fixture.
Little Bunny Fabrique, the new
shortstop Of the Brooklyn Dodgers,
is now fixture with Wilbert Robin
sons Flatbrsh aggregation, and there
isn't happier ball player in the major
leagues today than Bunny.
Bunny was born of French parents
at Clinton, Mich, in 1889, so he can
rot lay any claim to chickenhood, al
though he plays ball with the spirit
and dash Of 2-year-old colt.
He secured his first professional
engagement in 1908 with the Tecum-
sch (Mich.) club of the Southern
Michigan league, the club which one
year prior to the date sold Fred Mer-
kle to the Giants. From 1909 to 1911
he was with Jackson, Mich, and from
there went to Fort Wayne. where he
played in 1912 and 1918. Bill Donovan
bought Fahrique for Providence at
the close OF the 1918 season, and the
following year he helped win a PEN
rant for Smiling Bill in the Interna-
tional league. He continued with
Providence in 1915 and 1916, and did
valiant work as member of the
Grays. ra.. ......
Last fall no less than four major
league clubs put in drafts for him,
and Uncle Wilbert Robinson won him
IN the draw. Needless to say, Uncle
Wilbert thinks he has the best short.
stop in the world. We can say truth.
fully that he has one of the best.