BOOKMAKERS OR TOTES?
The bookmaker and all that the system implies is a blot on the sporting landscape, says the "Manawatu Times," while the totalisator is clean, never "welshes," uever "stiffens,"a horse, never "whispers" to a jockey, insists on "cash," and therefore doe? not involve the bettor to the extent that betting "on the nod" does. While human nature is as it is there will be "speculation," whether it prefers to burn its fingers in the Auckland share market or on the racecourse, and the totalisator is the least objectionable form yet devised. While the machine exists and the bookmaker is banned betting is practically monopolised by the machine, but if both are excluded from the racecourse it is certain that the bookmaker will still flourish underground though the machine would disappear.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9674, 23 December 1909, Page 4
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132BOOKMAKERS OR TOTES? Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9674, 23 December 1909, Page 4
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