MOSCOW RACE CROWDS
"‘Sortie Uncultural Behaviour” (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, December 31. Muscovites continue to enjoy their racing in spite of recent criticism in Russian magazines that most of the events at the Moscow Hippodrome are “fixed” and that betting on horses leads to what is described as “uncultural behaviour,” says the New York “Herald-Tribune’s” Moscow correspondent. The magazine “Sovietskaya Kultura” has complained that unscrupulous drivers “fix" races in advance and themselves bet on a sure thing through dummies.
This, it claimed, led to “loud curses by losing bettors, arrests for hooligan behaviour, drunkenness, and other malefactions.”
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28474, 2 January 1958, Page 7
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