VERY UPSET

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1938, Page 9

VERY UPSET

SYDNEY RACING CLUBS '

BROADCASTING CASE

LOOKING TO STATE

FOR PROTECTION

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph'—Copyright.)

SYDNEY, January 21,

The metropolitan racing clubs are very upset by the Privy Council's refusal of the application made by the Victoria Park Racing Club for leave to appeal from the decision given in its case against the Commonwealth Broadcasting Corporation, Ltd., permitting the continuance of the broadcasting of racing from outside the courses.

The decision will have a similar effect in other States.

It has cost racing clubs about £10,000 to test the litigation. Sir Joynton Smith) chairman of directors of the Victoria- Park Club, said: "\Ve shall now be obliged to rely on the. State Government to pr* vide protection from the competition of broadcasting. It is useless to expect the Federal Government to do anything, owing to the revenue it re« ceives from broadcasting."

REDUCTION OF PRIZE-MONEY.

Mr. Theo Marks, chairman of the Rosehill Club, ventures the opinion that racing prize-money will have to be reduced, as because of .the competition from broadcasting and' starting price betting, its handmaiden! race clubs cannot longer stand up to the strain. , Tho Australian Jockey Club from tomorrow will close the telegraph office at Randwick and-later at Warwick Farm. "It is understood that the reason is to thwart starting price and off-course betting; Smaller clubs had done this some time ago, their action resulting in an elaborate system of "tick-tacking," which is operated from positions overlooking suburban courses.