FOOTBALL BOOKMAKERS.
TWO FINED <CIOO EACH. By Heleiraph—Frees Ansoolation—CoprrisTit London, February 15. Two of the football bookmakers have been each fined J2IOO, and the other seven hayo been bound over. Nine men wero recently committed for trial in eonsequenco of the betting raid at Newcastle in connection with League football. The evidence Showed that the promoters'/profits amounted to .£7MO in four months. One professional footballer won i! 1000. Collins end Chaytour, the principals in the case, a fow years ago wero pitmen. The police found, six. telephones iin their officcs, and discovered that ten thousand coupons were arriving . daily. The firm had 151' agents in .England and Scotland, one of whom earned X 122 in commission 'in four months. A number of the agents were prominent men in tho football world, including the captain of a League team. Tho bets during four months aggregated J!1!),47G, of which JQI7S2 was paid'to the.agents and £7229 represented profits.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19130217.2.56
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1676, 17 February 1913, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
155FOOTBALL BOOKMAKERS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1676, 17 February 1913, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in