GAMBLING IN ENGLAND
HOUSEKEEPING MONEY. USED FOR BETTING BOOKMAKERS’ IMMENSE PROFITS London, April 22. “In some of the working-class districts the bookmaker comes round with tho regularity of the milkman, in order to take the housewives’ bets while their husbands are away at work,” states Mr. W. Randall, seo retary of the Turf Guardian Society, writing in the society’s year book. “These women have nothing with which to bet except the housekeeping money, and when they lose they are compelled to resort to all sorts of shifts to keep the home going until next pay day.” Mr. Randall estimates that half a million mon and women habitually make small bets, seldom exceeding 2s. 6d.. with street bookmakers (who are illegal). The total annual volume of street betting is about £6,250,000; and the total volume of all betting, including covering bets laid over and over again, is £140,000,000. Mr. Randall adds that 89 per cent, of the money betted with office bookmakers returns, as the backers bet with it over and over again. He estimates that the "bookmakers win £4,000.000 a year.—Sydney “Sun” Cable.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 180, 24 April 1924, Page 7
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183GAMBLING IN ENGLAND Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 180, 24 April 1924, Page 7
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