FIGHTING TO BET.
Iflie cable tells us that the crowds on tllie MeamMJ-gtott racecourse yesterday wetre to get' their bets on vviith thte bookmakers.' This is u .somewhat- interesting phase of modern existence. WThen people fight to get to the ibooknilaker, iit shows that they are overwheiLniied with the gambling instinct, and that they are desperate in their desiiire to obtain -something for nothing. Either the patrons of the turf have more money than they know what, to do with, or they have very little, and aire striving by a reckless game of chance to increa.se their eartlijly possess,iions. Probably blie latter is the more rational exclamation. In any case, the scene at FLurriptun i.-> «i striking commentary.
upon th*> socaatli conditions which. obtain in the Stonitliern Hemisphere today.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10471, 8 November 1911, Page 4
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129FIGHTING TO BET. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10471, 8 November 1911, Page 4
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