"Puff" on the Totalisator

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 84, 14 February 1888, Page 3

"Puff" on the Totalisator

♦ ■ : So Wardell's put the kibosh on the Totalisator ! Jolly good thing ! I hope his decision will stand, that's all ! But is'n't the Totalisator an im-, provement on the old style of betting ? Yes, but we don't want either of 'em! If they're done away with, it'll interfere sadly with sport ! "Sport," eh? I can't see where the sport come in ! It's sheer gambling at the best, and very often it's ..• low swindling ! The poor racehorses ■" are mere machines for enabling a •'* gang of rascals to prey on the greedy and dishonest section of the public ! A dice-box would answer the purpose just as well, — if dice were judiciously cogged and deftly handled ! By gad, I believe your right! If betting were absolutely forbidden in any form, we'd have real races, fit for decent people to go to for, amusement . as we used in the early dayß ! . . Are in those times, every family in the place who could go to the races went ! But you never see families at the races now !.-■■ Not much ! It would'n't suit ! The aort of " sport" that goes on there now would'n't afford much amusement to the wives and children ! It used to be the three "F's ! Fun, Friendship and Fresh-air ! Now, it's the three B's. Betting, Bookmaking and Blackguardism ! With generally two or three Court; cases to follow ! And the gaol at the finish ! Fees of Doctors. — The fee of doctors i« an item that very. many persons are in terested in just at present. We believe the Hchedule for visits is $3 00, whicli would tax a man confined to his bed for a year, and in need of a daily visit, over. $ I .' '00 -£■ -jtei" | r f"r niedica I attend aric< ■ alone 1 ■ ; rAud bne' single bottle- <?f Dt bouleis'AnjWicad Hop Bitters taken in iim€K«p>iiW. s**e the^i.ooo ttnd all th*yeari^W^si^^WstK-'. ■::..■ j ;v