Clipping:Insider information in pools
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| Date | Monday, September 22, 1879 |
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| Text | As a matter of interest to pool buyers, who fancy t make their investments with as good chance of wining as any one else, the following information is given: Throughout all of last season the telegraph operator stationed on the Cincinnati grounds was provided with a cipher for use in transmitting an account of the game, as it progressed, to the managers of the pool-rooms, where no figures were put upon the blackboard until the inning was completed. Those familiar with the auctioneer’s method of selling can thus readily understand how great are his advantages. For instance, let it be supposed that neither side has scored for the first five innings. It is fair to presume that the game is being characterized by good pitching and fielding. Let it be now imagined that one side has gotten the hang of the opposing delivery and made five runs before the side was put out. The pool-sellers are cognizant of this fact and their audience a innocent of it as unborn babes, and they suffer for it in consequence, as the ringsters supplied with the information, offer the most alluring bets as to runs being made in coming innings, their offers being eagerly snapped up. Cincinnati Commercial September 22, 1879 the Cincinnati Club to disband The Directors and stockholders of the Cincinnati Base Ball Association have one and all determined that they shall not reorganize a nine for next season, having been led to this conclusion from a want of patronage of the game as well as a lack of co-operation on the part of the team, and also on account of the difficulties experienced in attempting their management, so that, as the case now stands, Cincinnati will be without a League team, unless others step in and purchase the shares, or form another corporation under a new name, that of the Cincinnati Base Ball Association belonging to its inceptors. Cincinnati Commercial September 22, 1879 |
| Source | Cincinnati Commercial Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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