ROLL-DOWN CHANCES

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 53, 31 August 1926, Page 7

ROLL-DOWN CHANCES

EEMARKS BY THE OHIBF

JUSTICE,

"It is unnecessary for me to express any opinion as to whether in the game of 'roll-down' the chances of the game are alike favourable to all the players, including among th ( e players the person by whom the game is managed or against whom the other players stake, play, or bet," says his Honour the Chief Justice, in the course of his judgment delivered yesterday. "I raise the question so that it may not be overlooked in this case should it go further or in future cases. In the game the chances of the competitors inter se are equal; but the chances of the playera as regards the manager are in a very different position. The competitors compete amongst themselves, but only one can win. All the rest forfeit their stakes to the management. If the managers can be regarded as wagering, or staking, or playing against the competitors the chances of the competitors and of the managers are by no means equal. It may well be said that there is no difference in principle between the managers reserving for their own benefit certain chances in the game (e.g., in this game a certain number of holes), and making a condition which in effect they do, that certain of the competitors should in the ultimate event forfeit their stake's for their benefit. It is to be remembered that in the case of automatic gaming ;machines the. owner of the machine, though taking no part in the game arising from the use of the machine, is -egarded as a person against whom the porson using the machine stakes or plays."

A farmer at Dyerville, near Martinborough, was recently topping trees near the school when a bough fell on the electric wires and carried a live wire on to a fence which runs round the institution, says an exchange. About twelve of the scholars who ride to school had left their saddles on the fence, and at lunch time, as it began to rain, rushed across to take the saddles in out of the wet. The current from the electric wire was running through the fencing wires, and the children were caught by^it and received shocks, which were luckily not severe enough to do injury.

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