LEGAL OFF-COURSE BETTING
Sir, —I am afraid that off-course betting will increase the volume of gambling on horse racing. Say the whole amount of the bookmakers’ business is transferred’ via the totalisator agencies to the totalisator; of course it won’t be. There still remains a la£ge number who will not bet with bookmakers; these will bet through the agencies, thus increasing the volume of betting. I don’t see how it’s possible to get away from this conclusion, unless it is assumed that there are no law-abiding citizens so far as bookmakers are concerned. —Yours, etc., SMALL PUNTER. February 19, 1949.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25734, 21 February 1949, Page 2
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