trade stimulator: Arrest Cancer It's Wanted for Murder

Damon Runyon, the notable author, died of throat cancer at the age of 66 in 1946. Soon afterwards, his friend Walter Winchell started a fund in his memory, which soon became the Damon Runyon Memorial Cancer Fund. Around 1948, the fund created a series of imitation punchboard devices. Punchboards were originally trade simulators but also gambling devices that were prone to cheating. Most states outlawed them around 1940. This example doesn't feature a gambling component at all, but rather simulates a baseball game and collects coins as donations to the cancer fund.