LAW AGAINST BRIDGE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9165, 8 June 1908, Page 7

LAW AGAINST BRIDGE.

CONSTERNATION IN AMERICAN

DRAWING-ROOMS

New York, April 16. Fashionable and diplomatic circles in Washington are to-day bemoaning the fate which threatens not only to deprive them of the liberty occasionally to risk a “pony” on a favourite horse, but also to render illegal the favoritejjpastime of bridge and card playing generally. Their despair is due to the AutxGambling Bill which, the Senate Ims just sanctioned “prohibiting in th* most stringent terms all possible forms of gambling in drawing-rooms no less than on racecourses. If the action of the Senate is confirmed by the House of Representatives all people who play cards for the most trifling stakes, even in their own homes, or who bet on a horse race, boat race, or any other kind of race, or on an election, or any contest of any kind, will be liable to a fine of £IOO and imprisonment for ninety days. * The Embassies and Legations, which are ex-territoral, will alone bo exempt from the operation of the law.