Clipping:Club communications in cipher

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Date	Sunday, May 2, 1880
Text	All telegrams from Capt. Anson to the home management while the Chicago team is on its travels are sent in cipher. It has been demonstrated that telegraph-offices are very leaky, and that information that belongs of right to the Club management alone frequently finds it way to the possession of gamblers, who use it to their advantage at the pool-rooms. We will suppose Anson and Flint were to be taken sick to-morrow forenoon in Cincinnati, so that neither was able to play. A telegram to this effect written in plain English would at once be made known to such of the sure-thing gamblers as have confederates in the telegraph-offices, and the sharpers would use the knowledge to pluck the uninformed. The use of a cipher code would render sharp practice of this kind impossible, and for this and other sufficient reasons the system has been adopted by the Chicago Club management.
Source	Chicago Tribune
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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