The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-10
Death OF Doyle Interests Sports World
Mir. O'Goofty Gives Inside On The MISC.
 Ups And Downs Club
By JOE WILLIAMS

The Ups and Downs Club, an or ganization dedicated to the im- provement oi the bank roll without benefit of toll, is located in the lob- by of Madison Square Garden and is composed of large number Of sportsimen who will lay or play, de. pending on the immediate circum- stances.
 The members assemble in the lob by, or paddock as they call it, when- ever there are competitive events programmed, such as prize fights, hockey matches and basketball games. Their enthus!asms are such that they remain stoniiy indifferent to ice shows. political rallies and the circus.
 "You can't get any action on them thing" explains MT. O'Goofy. How you gonna lay a bet on guy like Willlxie talking. or on that Henie dame skating by herself?"
 No Squawks
 But the members do not complain. Indeed, these monastic interludes are often welcome. They give the boys time to go out and dig up some fresh scratch or ready money. any, way they always manage to get plenty of action over the year and this winter the action will grow in volume.
 In years past 1t has been the cus- tom of the boys to spend their win- sers in Florida wooing the sun and the daily double, but not many of them have been able to make it this year, due to one thing and another 50 they are conf1ning their opera sions to the paddock.
 The facilities offered by the Ups and Downs Club are not altogether complete, but as MT. O'Goofty points out, we got everything but a mutuels board in the lobby. at that"
 The operations of the sportsmen are somewhat curtailed because from time to time the contempo- rary spokesman for the Garden will raise highly moral finger and pi- ously assert that gambling is sim full, closing with 8 crushing tut tut" The sportsmen early recognized the delicatessen content of such sham reproaches but being cooper ative and understanding they have continued to operate with certain degree of anonymity. They firmly refuse to make bet unless proper ly approached.
 Since the club is not chartered by the state and therefore not subject to the supervision of any policing agency, such as our horse racing is, for example, the amount of monies involved over fiscal year is un- known. When a good betting fight comes along, the action is extremely heavy. Hockey. MT. O'Goofty re- ports, gets good steady play. Bas- ketball in recent years has excited spectacular wagering. The aggregate sum bet in the Garden lobby is ob- viously anything but trifling.
 Help State Treasury
 MT. O'Goofty resents the illegal status with which the Ups and Downs Club is handicapped. Tt don't make no sense. All our mem bers are horse players. They go out to Belmont and do their days work and they are fine outstanding citi- zens, putting money in the state treasury. They come into this place, the lobby. on the night shift to do some more work and they are dirty crooks and should be tossed into the clink. What kind of crackpot think ing is that?"
 It may be that Mir. O'Goofty has. something there. Plainly, what the Ups and Downs Club needs is leg islative leader like Senator John Dunnigan. It was the senator who led the fight to legalize betting at the tracks. His argument was that everybody bet at the tracks anyway, so why not move in and get some of the dough for :ke state treasury. The last audit showed the state picked up more than ten million smackerS for its end of the years swag.
 We wouldn't do that good, but we'd do good enough" MT. O'Goofty promised.
 The proposition has interesting possibilities. Of course, the garden bettors would have to have a com- mission and inevitably the commis- sion would have to be headed by , distinguished member of the group. That's what happened as soon as horse betting turned square. MT. Herbert Bayard Swope, a familiar figure at the tracks, was named to head the commission.
 Meet MT. Morgan
 While it is doubtful that the Gar den Boys would ever be able 70 come up with an individual to ap- proach the magnificent MT. Swope in either flamboyancy or fluidity, there surely must be one among them who would serve as a satis-s factory substitute. Offhand, the name of MT. Dumb Dan Morgan occurs to us; MT. Morgan is char ter member of the Ups and Downs Club dedicated to keep its finer tra- ditionS alive.
 By way of stressing the need for organization and state sanction. MT. O'Goofty points to distressing in cident of recent date. One of the sportsmen overlaid the price on the Jack Holts fight and was hooked savagely. Unable to get 1t up, he took powder. leaving his lobby vic- tims squawking frightfully. "A thing like that is very bad l nI. RA ak@