LAYING THE ODDS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2800, 21 October 1924, Page 3

LAYING THE ODDS.

TAKING A CHANGE ON A “DARK HORSE.” The knowledge that a certain boxer in a coming tournament was something of a “dark horse” brought about the downfall of Arthur Ckote, one bright day in August.Charged before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M. at the 1* aimers tun N. Magistrate’s Court yesterday, with carrying on the business or occupation of a bookmaker on August 2d last, Ckote pleaded guilty. .... . .... Senior-Sergeant O’Grady, who conducted the case Tdi-'the police, said that on the result of a certain boat in a boxing tournament defendant took bets totalling £4B 10/irduc various people. There was no suggestion that he had engaged in the practice either before or since the present offence. Defendant had made'" a clean breast of the whole ailair. / Mr Clayton, who represented the defendant, stated that his client conducted a gymnasium, and upon discovering a “dark horse” among the boxers, laid a'bet on him. Other people then evinced the desire' to lay bets also, and defendant - took these, but unfortunately he accepted commission also, thereby bringing himself within the Act. . “There is no. suggestion that he is an ordinary bookmaker, - said Mi’ SStout, in indicting, a tine of £5 with costs 7/-.