“CONTEST OF SKILL”
SIDESHOW GAME DISCOVERY), GISBORNE, Juno 10. Prosecutions from time to time have revealed how remote are the prospects of the public being successful in some of the so-called “contests by skill” conducted by .sideshowmen, but one of the most glaring instances of the lengths to which some showmen will go to ensure their own enrichment has just been revealed to the police. Among the equipment confiscated from a showman some time ago was the familiar red, white and blue dart board, which is generally regarded as a fair game, and is not objected to by the police. Even this, however, has been adapted to the “heads I win, tails you lose,” principle; In destroying the hoard yesterday the police discovered that the rod and blue sections were backed with tin, only the white being left to hold the darts In this game the proprietor offers throe to one on the rod and two to one on the blue, hut, since the darfc cannot penetrate the tin lining of these colours he has no chance of losing his money, and a player who has been inveigled into trying his “skill” hasnio chance whatever of winning, or even of getting his money back.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1933, Page 6
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204“CONTEST OF SKILL” Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1933, Page 6
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