Clipping:The reemergence of pool room betting

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Date Wednesday, September 15, 1886
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Very few people know that pools are at present being sold on base ball in New York, Washington, Baltimore, Chicago and several other cities represented in the National League and American Association circuits. This news may take the directors of these two principal associations by surprise, but The Sporting Life knows whereof it speaks and will not only point out to them the danger that confronts them, but explain where and how it is done and how it can be stopped . … [An explanation follows that Western Union has monopoly contracts with all NL and AA clubs, runs inning-by-inning information to its offices, and sells this data to any buyer; and proposes that Western Union be barred from the grounds entirely.]

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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