One big reason why there is so much organized gambling at the games is
due to the way the seats are ae

Years ago one could purchase a pretty good seat, a week before the fame.
Now the choice seats a sold in Sanesn sabsuekettons: Last year after season

subscriptions were in, a second choice was allowed for part subscription.

' Welts-a great many followers of the gane can not afford to dig up from fifty

toa hundred dollars in advance. So a& new crowd has taken over at the Garden.

They are @er dress and hat manufacturers and-so-on. what is called in N.Y.

the "cloak and suiters". This crowd is "gambling nhs In the summer it's the
"tracks"; In winter it's the basketball games. I oes ray eer every day i a man's —
cafe. ‘Gus Side of the restummant is peopled by men who are makers of ladies'
hand=-bags. It turns your stomach sick to listen to them. Adal they talk of is

points on this team or points on that team. The following day after a game

to hear them excoriate some boy, for mis sing a foul shot ond thereby causing

them to lose a Hohe ‘No talk about the ane points of the game, or no pity

for a youngster ead tightened up when the game was on his shoulders. They are

@ mean lot, money is their god and I predict they will eventually yaw the game.