The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. FRIDAY, MAY 1,1914. CAN THE PUBLIC WIN?

Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 May 1914, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. FRIDAY, MAY 1,1914. CAN THE PUBLIC WIN?

Iα proportion to its population, Australia devotes more time and money to horse-racing than any country in the world. It is the gambling element, of course, that sustains the racing to such an extent, mil in Life for .May, just published, the question is discussed, "Has the general public that •supports the racing a fair chance of coming out on the right side in iis transactions with the bookmakers?" MrG. }]. Dash, who has had a very long and varied acquaintance with racing, argues the question very closely, and produces a list of arguments and examples to illustrate the felicitous logic of the race-course gambler. He analyses many of the systems and superstitions upon which ihe nnm-in-the-street■ •' speculates his money, and shows how futile these are. Without in any wav adopting the pulpit attitude, but merely as a harri-headed business man. lie reiterates Punch's alvi'e ■ o those about to marry. "Don't." This is one of a series *>f sp'.vial illustrated articles which constitute the strength of the May ">st)c of this popular Australi in magazine, and make it most deeded 1 -, , Australian in tone. ">Si:vrkv ' Adams, for example, w: ~.<;b the "Wrestling Game, ,, and co:nf.ar« : ? Australian wrestlers wiih those on the other side of (he world. Dr. Douglas Mawson has been interviewed, and gives a great doal <.f fresh material from flic This is accompanied by a nu,t hr-v of excellent photographs: Charles Nuftall writes and illustrates o:u J of a scries of Australian mining stories, and Life's special plicti.grapher produces some snapshots of the Australian Davi; Cup champion'M play. Deali< v with matters of world-wide concern are articles on Treland and its troubles, the Mexican situn-on. and. Ihe newest developments \v science, literature, bus'ji:" and sport. Dr. Fitchctt \vr<\'> noto> of current history, and AT; y Hannay Foote, the Queensl.i <d p.iol, contributes an Faster doc , ,) entitled "Passover."