Evening journal., 1922-10-16
Millions Are Cleaned Up
In Baseball Gambling
Throughout Country
By NEA Service.

By NEA Service.
NEW YORK-Basebal pools In
the major leagues levy their greatest
toll in New York. Chicago and phil
adelphia.
A million dollars week Is spent
| in New York alone by upward OF
100000 players, according TO estl-
mates by pool agents.
New York has probably 25'OoO
pools. all except 100 or so being
small private pools In offices and
factories. and semi-private enter
prlses operated in cigar stores
There are four big pools.
Chicago spends about 100000 a
week in some so professional pools
During the last world series tickets
sales in these pools totaled S45O,OOO'
police estimate.
Philadelphia baseball gamblers
spend at least $4,000 week ac-
cording 10 conservative estimates.
Sales in Boston weekly are placed
at $4,000. in Pittsburgh. at s1O,-
600. Cleveland and Detroit are in
the same class. survey shows.
Operations are small in Washing
ton. n.Cinclnnati and St. Louis. Horse
race betting has the call in Wash
ington and Cincinnati, while police
cleanup in st. Louis a year ago is
still effective.
In Chicago, Police Chief Charles
L. Fitzmorris says 200 arrests have
been made during the past season.
I'VE find 1t hard to get the ring
leaders" says the Chicago chief.
"Only the small fry are caught
usually agents. while the ring of d.
rectors operating the pools on ma
tional basis remain under cover"
Twenty Per Cent Cut
For Agents i'm New York.
Pool agents in New York work on
20 per cent commission. They say
they usually sell about $500 worth
OF tickets a week each. They have
regular routes through office build
ings and retail districts. Employees
ac. as agents in many factories.
In a survey Of one 2O-story Office
building 10 separate pools were
found in operation. in addition TO
those larger ones represented by
agents.
Most Of the $4,000 pools-the
small fry-have tickets selling for
25 cents a week, with from 16 10
80 members who buy a chance on
one or two, major league clubs. This
1t is estimated. totals
$3.50. 1000.
Fewer players in the aggregate.
but with an investment of three
times as much weekly, patronize the
four big pools.
Most exclusive" of these big New
York pools is the Forty-second
Street Pool. Tickets sell for IS a
week, the buyer blindly picking a =
combination of three teams out OF
the 80 teams in the National. Amer
ican and International Leagues and
the American Association. Highest
combination score for the week
draws a $4,000 prize, lowest score
$500.
Another big pool. name unknown
sells tickets for 81. The Lyons
Pool, operated from Albany, and
Fort Erie Pool, operated from Buff
falo sell tickets for $ in New York
Both operate elsewhere in the cas-
md the New England states, Fort
Erie tickets in some towns being
,nly 80 cents.
Tapital Prize Sometimes as
High as Five Hundred Dollars.
Some pools distribute daily awards,
he capital prize as high as $500.
Philadelphia's largest pool, known
ft1,TfpHr
ickets for 35 cents bearing combin-
ltions of six teams out of "a in the !
National. American and Interna- ]
ional Leagues. {
This pool. which has headquarters {
n Camden, y. j.. offered $1,000 in 4
,rizes on a particular day recently;
500 for highest score, $3.50 second :
odrth highest, and 500 for lowest
core.
twenty-five pools operate in Bos-
on. and Police Superintendent NJ.
/. Crowley places the players at
not more than 5000" Some 20
100 tickets are sold weekly for so
ents and 81, and a few at 25 cents
n Eastern League teams.
In Pittsburgh baseball pools have ,
ecreased, owing to raids and con-
lotions, according 10 District Attor-
ey II. H. Rowand. Ticket sales
re made In secret to possibly 10000 6
ustomers weekly.
The shoe-workers' strike. on nearly
Il summer, is thought TO have help
d 10 cut down baseball pools in Z.
incinnati Horse-race betting has I
lways been more popular there, as A..
/ washington. and also in Cleve-
md. where Safety Director Thomas
Iartinee says numerous arrests :,
ave helped to cut down pool selling. !,
,EEISTR ALTON III