The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-23

AEnit0rA Note. WINE Joe Williams - on
his vacation this column viii be conducted
by Daniel NJ. Daniel Of the New York
Norld-TeleErAm.)
NEW YORK, Aug. 23.--It is the
IN fourth inning-perhaps the
fifth or sixth--of more or less ex-
citing ball game at the Yankee sta
dunn. Make the time Monday Or
last Wednesday. 1t doesn't matter.
Suddenly a tall, grsy-haired man,
dressed in unobtrusive blue and
wearing kindly, even benevolent,
smile approaches the two men seat
ed across the aisle from you.
The tall one whispers something to the
customer They leave with the man IN
why, isn't that nice Of Colonel Rup-
pert 70 have a paging service for tele-
phone callsl' exclaims the sweet lazy
with you. They must be doctors or
Well, the men across the aisle aren't
doctors-at least. not in a medical sense.
vacation at Ossining at the expense OF
the state OF New York for doctoring a
signature at the bottom OF a check. His
companion Is sure thing gambler and
They are being elected from the
New York clubs who's who" Of un-
desirable patrons and are being escorted
10 the gate. where they will get their
Il is possible that thew have been
caught telephoninR information as to the
progress OF the game to some rendezvous
thirty such incidents occur every time the
Yankees play at home.
A LII of which brings me to de-
"A partment of the Rupert base
ball organization about which prac-
tically nothing hitherto has been
written. 1t is the secret service bu-
reau of the Yankees. In the of
fees of the club it is known as the
U. C.-the under cover branch of a
sports enterprise which represents
something like $6,00O00 in ground,
steel and concrete, and human in
vestments.
This intelligence corps costs $4,000
year in salaries. Occasionally q gambler,
who has been thrown out of the park
starts something legally. but not one of
them has yet gone through with an action
in the twelve years in which the. fight
against betting has been conducted here
under the direction Of Edward G. Barrow,
business manager OF the New York club,
Under Barrow there is Mr.. x, who works
for the Yankees all the year round, not
only in the stadium, but all over town
in speakeasies, hotels and other places
where gamblers who specialize in betting
on ball games may gel together.
Assisting Mr.. X during the baseball sea-
son are six operatives who work all over
the stadium. Mr.. X will roam the grand
stand on Sunday, and bob up in the right
held bleachers on Monday. These opera
tives know 30 per cent Of the betting
gentry
There is no suggestion of spying on the
fan who comes to the ball park to see
through the competitive phases and the
high skill demonstrated by the players,
but the U. G. department of the Yankees
is an implacable foe Of the gambler who
a betting ring.
TN so far as 1 know, only the
Il Yankees and the Giants employ
undercover men in a fight against
those who bet on ball games. In
this they have the wholehearted
support Of Judge x. M Lands. In
cidentally the popular conception
that Lands has his own detectives,
who spy on gamblers and keep an
eye on ball players, is not true.
I went to Barrow Monday for the details
on his secret service bureau. He was
loath to discuss this almost unknown de-
partment of the ball clubs administration
l insisted that the man in the stands. the
fan in the bleachers, should know about
it,
Well, I started my fight on gamblers in
the ball park when 1 was in Boston,"
Barr0o,W said The world series scandal
OF 1919 knocked me over. l did not think
that anything of that sort was possible
in baseball, made VOW then and there
to fight those who engineered the deal with
those crooked White SoX, and those who
presumed to gamble in any ball park with
which I had any connection.
Il barred the late Arnold Rothstein from
the Yankee Stadium. The American
League followed my lead and he was kept
out of all our parks. have a list of
perhaps ten others Their money is no
good at the stadium. If they happen to
sneak in we lose no time in throwing
them out"
Barrow gave me their names One was
mentioned in connection with the 1919
scandal. The others are we'll known pro-
fessionai gamblers-not race track book
makers. but men whose histories and
pictures are in all newspaper morgues
here, and whose finger prints no doubt
are in the large collection down at police
headquarters.