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MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 11 (U. S.).
HE lads along Broadway have
oF a new betting divarsion.
They are now going to bas-
ketball games, and betting—not on
the general results, as they do in

s other games, but on points scored.

Incidentally, they say it is the
fastest form of betting that has yet
been developed by any indoor or out-
door pastime, and while some may

see in this practice a menace to the
welfare of the game, it is also indic-
ative of the new and tremendous

©} | general interest in basketball.

 

We have recently discovered a
curious fact about middle-aged
fellows raised around New:York
About 50 per cent. of them play-

ed a bit of basketball in their
youth. About 60 per cent. of the
youth now growing up in New
York are playing basketball,
When you talk about national
pastimes, you will have to give some
consideration to this strictly Ameri-
can institution, which is younger
than baseball, but is now played by
more youngsters, male and female,
than Abner Doubleday’s diversion.

We were aware that basket-
bail is a major sport out around
the Middle West, but we never .
suspected that many big town-
ers had been raised upon the —
game until we got to inquiring

Both BarrelS |

By DAMON RUNYON

 

 

 

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in both instances is supposed to
be more powerful, more finished.

MR. GALLAGHER A FAN

NE of the greatest basketball
QO bugs we have ever encountered

is Mr..Bill Gallagher. of horse
racing fame. He is a bland, rotund
man, of middle years, and of consid-
erable means, who is well-known
around the racetracks as the owner
of a big stable.

He is a great fight fan and a hockey
fan, but no one ever suspected’ that
Mr. Bill Gallagher’s real sports heart
throb is, basketball, until he popped |
out with a team of‘his own, called |

as a basketball player.

His team includes no less than six
former captains of New York college
basketball teams. They are Bill
Nash, Columbia, °35-'36; Tony’ De
Phillips, Fordham, °35-’36; Willie
Rubenstein, N. Y. U., °35-’36; Sol
Kopitko, C. C. N. Y., °35-’36; Lou
Bender, Columbia, 32; Lou Spindell,
Cr Cone Y Gf 3i.

- Mr, Bill Gallagher’s team

must hold some: sort of record

for number of ex-college cap-

tains, anyway. Basketball can’t
be anything else but, a- hobby
- with him, because he has nothing
to advertise, nothing to sell, and
doesn’t care for personal pub=
th He just dotes on basket-
ball, ae t eter te