Evening star., 1922-05-05
At Odd. n. to Charity.


Manager Milan and Trainer Martin
have on boxing gloves, figuratively
speSSing, and have been looking dag
gers at each other for a couple OF
days. Zeb insists that Charity should
go in and work. thereby forcing out
his charleyhorse, while Mike is posi-
tive that Eddie needs more rest. and
Is fearful that he may be permanent
ly injured If he dons uniform too
early. 1t Is the old school against the
dreds of cases where hard work
knocked out charleyhorses, and there
were no trainers around either.
"Ill grant you all that" replies
Martin, but suppose it fails this
once. where's your ball team. Charity
you. to take any chances at all and
then what are two ball games"
Charity sits back and enjoys the
controversy immensely. taking sides
sion that Pat will be in there the min
ute he thinks he is able to don the mask
and pad.
Gambling Still Rampant.
There must be something radically
wrong with either the city or state
laws around here when a group of
gamblers can collect in the grandstand
Of, q ball park and do business with a
Couple hundred people without being
: Wednesday there were only 5000 fans
1t the game, and as result the bunch
of gamblers who collected back OF first
base stood out. The situation was re-
game started. and Information asked
3or as to why the gambling had not
iAeen suppressed. Politics, of course,
Is the one big factor that stands out,
but the excuse given is that no money
is passed between the handbook man
6v>l hakf oil HnfC
next day. Before the game started,
washington ruled the favorite at 8 to
5. went down to even money when quinn
Eetired the first two batters easily ana
then jumped up to to aiter hce
had made his double and Judge
single. When Brewer closed the in
ming with roller to Pratt, he had to
stand for considerable jeering from
those who had already placed money
On Washington and wanted to get on
to a good start. -
The offering Of the. odds quoted above
was not done in whispers, as Wouid
naturally be supposed, but called OUT
loud enough to be heard on the neid
by. the players, and although there musl
have been at least fifty policemen m
side the park, they kept away from the,
group as though smallpox was prevalent
among the gamblers. This is the poiiti-
cal end of it. Private detectives, could
be employed, but the bookmakers nave
4DleS everywhere anu d icSuit ooSiT
ness slackens up whenever the sleuths
IRE around.
President Ban Johnson of the Amer
lean League persuaded Harry FraZee,
the owner OF, the Red Sox. to tackle
The situation last fall. but he had to
give up in disgust. the Boston gam
bling ring being much stronger than
ne. The situation is brought up here
as. the season has just started and un-
less President Johnson again taxes
4 hand. will have reached gigantic
proportions by the middle Of the sea
son. The danger to the game comes
when a group ofsfheses handbooks get
loaded up with ten or fifteen thousand
dollars. all on one club to win. and
fhey resort to all sorts OF underhand
methods to keep the money.
: In Washington bets have been made
on a game in different stands, but so
quietly as to not be noticeable. But
of course. politics is a small factor In
The capital and gambling has been al.
most wiped out there, as President
Griffith won't stand for it, generally
ifipping the movement in the bud