Clipping:Pool room manipulation 2
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| Date | Sunday, June 10, 1877 |
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| Text | An experience related to the writer yesterday may be of interest to those people who are in the habit of frequenting pool-rooms to bet on innings in ball games. The speaker was a well-known sport of the better class, and what he had to say was this: “The man who bets on innings in the pool-room is, as a general thing, burning up his money; he cannot win except by chance, and I will tell you how I know. I will give you an instance. The day the Chicagos and St. Louis played their second game in this city my friend {call him Jones} went out to see the game and stayed until it was over. Then he came down on a car and stepped in to tell me about it. As soon as he had given me the result I went over to the pool-room to see if they had posted the returns from the Boston-Cincinnati game which was going on in Cincinnati. When I got over there, judge how astonished I was when I found them selling pools on the Chicago-St. Louis game, which had been over fully forty minutes, or long enough for Jones to come down in a street-car. While I was there a man got up and offered to bet $100 to $50, then to $25, then to $10, and finally to $5, that the Chicagos would win. At this time the eighth and ninth innings were not posted on the board. Now I say that if the pool-man gets his dispatches by telegraph, and then don’t post them fast enough to beat the street-car, there is ‘funny’ business going on. It is pretty good advice to men who bet to let up betting on innings in ball games.” There is more than a little sense in the advice about the betting on innings given above. It is quite possible for a man to get a fair show for his money if he bets on a game before a ball is struck, but if he goes in for innings he is quite likely to be opposed to a man who knows the result of the matter on which he is arranging to rob the unsuspecting innocent. |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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