INCIPIENT TROUBLE.
» AT A SMALL .RACE MEETING. (By Telegraph—Press Association.). ! : ■.?. in!-,-! ••."•.iTlmarujr'January- 12/ '■ At'the Pleasant Point races to-daft. l , there was only a small gathering, th«- ; : "gate" - amounting to £20.' ; Seventeen bookmakers :■ were licensed- : at-'£3 "3s';'l 1 each.- There -.was great disorder over one.'race.''The>'.official starter • could. ■ not get>the horses off through the in- ) terferunce of the" crowd, and he leftl ■ An outsider sent them away, hut the , stewards ordered the race to be rerun;' ) one ; 6f. their number, acting as starter, t Again, however,'there was a great di's«- -.- turbance-"by" a^sectiotf-of 'the-'-crOwd;;, . and the start was delayed for halt 1 t an hour. Finally, however, anger ex- . ploded in laughter, and the race, wa|.' '■■ got off.-;'■'.'■ ■: ' N ".::.■■:■-:'■
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1024, 13 January 1911, Page 6
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116INCIPIENT TROUBLE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1024, 13 January 1911, Page 6
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