CLEAN SPORT.
The mail just to hand from the Old Country brings information that betting on football matches has developed to such an extent as to place the sport in imminent peril of extinction. It is -stated that bookmakers make more out of football matches than they do out of horse-racing. Fortunately we, in New Zealand, have not developed the betting in«nia to such an. extent as to buy and sell our favourite pastimes. There is, however, a suspicion that the evil of professionalism is creeping in, ,and that sport is not as clean as it used to be. This is matter which the Sports Protection League, if it is worthy of the name, should take in hand as speedilv !>s possible.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 21 November 1912, Page 4
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122CLEAN SPORT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 21 November 1912, Page 4
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