Evening star., 1922-01-28
BET ON RACE HORSE
OPENLY PLACED IN
P. 0. DEPARTMENT
"Runner" of Bookmaker
Does Business in Corridor
of Public Building.
ANOTHER "BO0KIE" TAKES
MONEY ALONG D STREET
Five Found Operating in Down.
town District-Exposure Drives
Them to Cover.

A IS bet was placed on race horse
in the Post ONCE Department build
ing yesterday afternoon by a repre-
sentative of The Evening Star.
The horse was Jago, running In
the third race at New Orleans. The
horse won at to 10 odds. The bet
was made "to show" or run third.
The man who took the bet is a
runner" understood to represent one
Of the big bookies" in this city. Daily
he has been taking his station in the
corridors Of the Post Office Depart
ment about noon and taking hum
dreds of dollars in bets from en-
ployes. The runner" is not himself
an employe Of the department.
Bet Placed ON Street.
The Star representative placed an
other IS bet to win on Pastoral
SWAIN" a reported hot thing along
the line yesterday morning. ihou-
sands Of dollars were played on TINS
horse. He was regarded as sure
winner" by the tipsters. The morse
ran second in the fifth race at New
Orleans.
The taker of this bet was a tall
bsavv-set man, who has been operat-
inp along the curb in and out OF ID
street, from 7th to 11th street, ms
"bookie," like the runner IN the
Post ONCE Department, did not know
The Star representative, YET hel.nei
of them hesitated or asked any ques
tions when asked to take the be-
.Ao,,;no hou, a2Sv if is to ganiDi'
openly on the streets and In publ
buildings in Washington.
Trim to .Bookies' Omces."
After placing these two bets. II
Star representative stationed himse
before the Post Office Department 4,
nearly an hour to watch the custom
ary number of daily bettors ell
ployed in the department make the
trips to 'bookies' Offices"
The number coming from the build
ing was not as large as usual. bu
one postal empioye a1ter the othe
struggled out during working hours
and made his way to a 'bookie" VIII,
has his office" on 12th--street no.
far from the Raleigh Hotel. The bet
tors met with q little surprise and
looked about sort of dismayed. Thi.
closed his place temporarily because
of the publicity which has been given
to bookmakers.
Not to miss their bets. however.
the bettors walked down E street
from 18th and placed their plays
bets in the neighborhood of 1otn
and D streets.
Bookmakers Work Everywhere.
There is evidence on every hand
that bookmakers can be found al
most everywhere. Yesterday The
Evening Star exposed the location
of the big bookies" along 14th street.
In addition to this The, Star has
found no less than five places where
bets can be made within a radius of
several blocks from the Star build
ing. And this by no means includes
all of the "bookies" plying their
unlawful trade in this city. Other
locations will be referred to later.
Three of the big 18th street book
makers were not 'at home" yester-
day, having taken to cover for the
present This does not exactly mean
that they have given up their busi-
ness. On the contrary. they undoubt-
edly are taking bets in other loca-
tons where they are not SO we'll
known, and thus for the time being
are escaping police detection.
Not Stopped by Arrests.
Arrests of bookmakers in the past
year in this city show that the book
les" are not out of business for
long time. In fact. perhaps half of
the bookmakers now in Washington
have at one time or another been ar
rested.
There have not been any recent
raids. perhaps because of the fact
that the bookies had found new loca-
tions, which. however, are again be-
coming more or less well known. In
view of this It'll Is to be expected that
grand moving is aginst under way
among the bookmakers, for the more
they keep on the move the safer VIII
their business be.
Chief Clerk Mooney of the Post
Office Department declared today that
he did nbt believe that bets were
being placed in the corridors of the
department building, but that if any
agents of the bookmakers were
caught in the building he would
throw them out"