San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-19
Folks Go So Daily
ey'd Stop Matching
for Carfare.
Bling DOESN'T co
Friendly Wagers on
|prting Events In
creases Interest.
y ROBERT EDGREN.

Ir6efe is a zap about betting on
ches, betting between the play.
We're growing so daffy over re.
everything that first thing
Nv some bird will pop up with {
|Ftick a penalty of 80 years in
psegow on any disreputable
III caught in the act of match.
y lies to see who pays the care
states have passed laws max
ling on baseball games a prison
4 OF course betting on ball
|Sn't an offense. morally. at all.
L is crooked betting on fixed
ne going to a ball game with
1T friend and saying bill. bel
bucks we beat the team from
|!vn today"
5ust then a thick-necked. crop
blat-footed gent in the row be.
.ans over and snaps a steel
on you with the remark:
HhiHg else you got to say abOdi
tyou can spiel to the judge, 30.
he lucky you may get off with
|fhs."
isn't It? But It wouldn't be
|ft happened to you. 1t would
in some states. Nothing i'm
about it at all.
| ke authorities absolutely ban
|bn college sporting events, with
,alties for violation.
by Not a Friendly Bet?
silly stuff. Years ago at
fepsie they used to open pub.
bling rooms at every boat race,
Ibfessional rooms swarmed with
oys and old grads eager to
|agers on their own crews. That
bad proposition. because max
Is with professional gamblers
fting only for profit, a habit
|troys ones idea of the value oi
Rnoney. Also. college boys oft
Lmore than they could afford t.
good thing to stop that!
here is no harm in making q
Eager purely for the sake Of
HE adds a lot Of interest to q
ANY time nv old college foot.
I5is playing a good hard game
he acquaintance from the rival
Homes along and challenges me
\ my pride and confidence with
bot. I'm going TO take him un
tbrmers" are standing behind
d rows deep. listening to every
Fith ear tr1mpets and waiting
/ an Identification mark on the
Bill the instant it changes
Fr golf. why there wouldn't be
NJ language without Nassau,
Eats" and "double for brides"
! golfer.
hardest slams jess Willard has
ce Toledo are the polthogues
Ia by the Boxing Commission.
hugh his only tro ould be
4 Dempsey's manager to agree
Itch on financial terms the pro-
could meet. He didn't dream
commissions would refuse to
The boat.
| Cuba has been begging for a
TO put on a world. champion
HIT. Jess might induce Demp.
10 down there.
4 Dempsey would go any I. here
|, fight. Jack has tied u. his
Earnings in future payments on
ate, and he will be in a hole
The future earnings materialize.
to fight somebody.
| how the attacks on everyone
led Us an opponent for Demp-
beginning to look like a con-
/ to keep Dempsey out of the
Dempsey isn't so terrible that
has a chance to beat him. Yet
ling commissions refuse to give
that chance, alleging that each
proposed would be a set-up for
|mpion.
hook at the New York stand on
His matchi Last year Mr.. Null
|rmly demanded that Dempsey
e. bit Wills, refusing Dempsey
Iss-~.t draw a color line when
FORFEIT was deposited with his
lie. Tire was talk of "bar-
Dempsey in New York state. and
|feiting his title TO Wills" un-
signed. But Dempsey sur
Everyone by being eager to sign
Wills. He signed. And sud
he Boxing Commission lost, in
n that match.
common talk that certain Off
hit around word to certain in
\ parties that there must be no
|alk of a Wills-Dempsey match
Eter election. Now Dempsey is,
only by the fear that politics
Iutly put the kibosh on bis only
t for a real scrap until after
|ection-and the next-and the