RIOTOUS RACE CROWD.
TROUBLE ABOUT BOOKMAKERS
feeling has existed for some time in racing circles in South Australia on the question of whether bookmakers should be granted licenses. At present their calling is illegal. The police have recently exercised extra vigilance in the direction of arrests for alleged infringements of the law, and on a recent Saturday sixteeji men were apprehended on the Morphetville course, and subsequently brought before the Adelaide Police Court and lined. Subsequently a similar police “offensive” was made on the same course, and the spectators were on the qui vive for trouble. However, nothing transpired until about the third race, when a medley of catcalls from the Derby enclosure gave notification that one of the fraternity had been captured., The real trouble began after the running of the second division of the Trial Stakes, Avhen, at the rear of one of the grandstands, a demonstration was directed against the police officers, and for a time a serious riot was threatened. While one or two of the alleged bookmakers were being arrested a few men be,gan hooting. A crowd quickly gathered, and things began to look livelv. Blows followed the hooting, and in the course of a genera 1 , wrangle, in which a lloworstand upon one of the balustrades was broken to pieces, the two policemen were forced against a Avail. Mud and stones Averc pelted in their direction, and a couple of troopers in tho vicinity hurried to their Ijolp. The mob then closed on the police officers, and a trooper is stated to have been knocked to the ground and kicked. At this stage a baton was draAvn, and one of the police displayed a revolver. This led to mox - e “boo-booing” and mud throAving. The situation avus becoming grave for the policemen Avhen a detachment of troopers arrived on tho scene, and the trouble thereafter subsided. Later, when the mounted police Avcre leaving, another, although more mild, demonstration occurred.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2194, 26 October 1920, Page 1
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325RIOTOUS RACE CROWD. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2194, 26 October 1920, Page 1
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