The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-04-15
POLICE ARREST
FIRST SCALPER
Chicago Man Hawks Tick
cts to Prize Fight at
Increased Rate.
HELD AS 'DISORDERLY'

Enter the scalper to Kenosha. A real
live one with tickets to sell to people
who had money enough to pay for
them and as sheer for any one who sug-
gested that advertised prices should
prevail for the buying of tickets to q
night Just the same as to anything else.
The fellow, Adolph Nasck, was ar
rested by Detective Rock just before
the beginning at the boxing show at
the coliseum last night He was work
ms along the curb brazenIy Offering
to enthusiastic fight fans tickets for
the show at two dollar and a half
advance over the price set at the box
office. He was doing a long Office bust
ness when he was arrested and Detec-
tive Rock took him to the police sta
ton. "He was only one of the Chicago
men who were selling tickets to the
hight at a high price" declared the
detective. Il stood and watched him
sell eight of the tickets and then
took him in. The other men who
seemed to be pretty well supplied with
tickets for price higher than the
box office ran away after I picked up
this fellow"
Nasck left some seVenty-nine dollars
in the police office as bond for his ap-
pearance on charge of disorderly
conduct and went back to Chicago.
The Police department had orders
to plead guilty for him and send the
change back to Chicago.
Telephones Urge Action.
This morning the telephones were
busy urging that the case be disposed
of and that the Change" be sent to
the Chicago man. The fellow told the
police that he was q good friend of
Manager John Wagner of Racine, who
was in charge of the show He said
he had secured the tickets in Chicago,
The first four men he met were four
lieutenants from the naval station at
Great Lakes. They were ticketless
and had burning desire to see the
fight. They hurried to pay the Chi
cago man $3.50 a ticket and went into
the Coliseum On account of the de-
mand for tickets in Chicago a lot Of
Kenosha people who wanted to see the
battles were denied admission. They
wanted to buy tickets at the regular
prices and held that the fact that Ke-
nosha was furnishing police protection
and lot of other protection would
naturally mean that Kenosha people
would be given the preference in
getting into the show.
Say ScaIpers Had Lots of Them.
Chief o'Hare said this morning: "It
was the toughest crowd l ever saw.
They just can't run these shows on
the square" The scalpers declared
that the management of the show had
nothing to do with his selling tickets
and said that the venture was a priv
ate one. Wisconsin has no law against
ticket scalping and the only offense
that can be charged against the scalper
is one of obtaining money under false
pretenses or disorderly conduct.
District Attorney Peter Fisher when
informed that the scalpers were work
ing here and that the crowd at the
fight on Wednesday night was partic-
ularly- rough, said: "If Wagner wants
to pull this kind of stuff let him go
to Racine and pull it. We are going
to insist that the people be protected
against usury in the sale of fight
tickets the same as anything else"
What Are You Going To Do?
what are you going TO do about
it % was the suggestion of some of
the fight fans. "We are going right
up to the Wisconsin boxing commis-
sion and demand that no more permits
be issued to other than Kenosha men
for boxing shows" was the prompt re-
Spouse of the officials. Manager
Frazier, who has the license for the
Coliseum, declared to the police Of
icers that he knew nothing Of the
scalping work However, he, admitted
that. the men had called him by tefe-
phone and asked him to aid in getting
the money back. Frazier told the po-
lice that he had not countenanced any
advance in the price Of the tickets.
1t was admitted that the Chicago deal
ers in fight tickets got an unusually
heavy supply of the tickets. Some
CHlc3So men VINO came up on the Train
declared that they we're offered a
ticket at double rate but that they
refused to pay tribute to the Chicago
syndicate Of scalpers and did not go to
the fight. Five men who had come to
Kenosha for the show expecting to
get seats at the price advertised and
who had refused to pay double this
price, went back to Chicago without
going near the Coliseum.