Sport: Pindemonium

The pin-game industry is a $10,000,000 group of enterprises responsible for some 500 dingy "sportlands" in which an estimated 500,000 U. S. devotees of bagatelle gather every week to piddle away their time. It is responsible also for some 250,000 bagatelle boards, operated by a nickel-in-the-slot, situated in bars, hotel lobbies, lunchrooms and cigar stores throughout the U. S. Last week, bigwigs of the pin-game industry had the most exciting week they have experienced since, for mysterious reasons connected with Depression, nervous introspection and an appetite for echolalia, the modern brand of bagatelle,...

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