BETTING ON LEAGUE FOOTBALL
SUGGESTED PROHIBITION OF POOLS
(Received February 23, 8.40 p.m.)
LONDON, February 22.
At a meeting in Manchester of the directors of the Football League clubs, called' to consider the attitude of the League to pool betting on League matches, it was decided to ask the Government to introduce legislation to stop pools. Representations for the suppression of pools were recently made to the Home Secretary by religious and social workers, who state that betting of this kind has become a grave evil. The Sun Herald News Service says that the Football League's decision to smash betting poo\s threatens one of the most popular forms of national amusement. Ten million men, women, and children, or a quarter of Britain's population, take part in a turnover estimated at £30,000,000 in prizes as high as £20,000 for an outlay of a penny. A vast industry has been, created employing thousands of people, and the additional revenue to the Post Office is estimated at £62,000 from the stamps on 10,000,000 letters a week, excluding poundage on money orders.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21715, 24 February 1936, Page 17
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