SHARPERS AND BOOKMAKERS
A BIG SWINDLE. THOUSANDS OF POUNDS INVOLVED. Received April 15, 9.3 a.m. LONDON, April 14. In the absence of direct telephones and the slowness of telegrams, bets were accepted in Vienna two and a half hours after English races were run. A group of sharpers, utilising the telephones between London and Paris and Berlin, thence to Vienna, swindled leading bookmakers of many thousands of pounds.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9067, 16 April 1908, Page 5
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68SHARPERS AND BOOKMAKERS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9067, 16 April 1908, Page 5
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