RACING SCENES IN BERLIN.
Twenty thousand people fought their "way into the trains to and from the Grunewald racecourse, Berlin, on~~A&cension Day, May 9. The newspapers declare that the scramble not only for places in the trains, (but also for admission to the course, and the queues leading to the betting machines, can only be described as a "bloody battle." Those who succeeded in forcing their way into the trains reached there iJTHised.and dishevelled. Others "vfiait*d for hours. The newspapers bitterly criticise the railway authorities as "well as the Jockey Club, asserting that as long as racing is permitted accommodation somehow must be provided. Some of the wildest hand-to-hand fighting raged round the race-card sellers, the number of cards available laving been about one to every ten persons on the course.
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Taihape Daily Times, 23 July 1918, Page 6
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131RACING SCENES IN BERLIN. Taihape Daily Times, 23 July 1918, Page 6
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