THE TOTALISATOR.

Evening Star, Issue 12647, 30 October 1905, Page 4

THE TOTALISATOR.

to the EDrroa. Sir, —Several letters have appeared of late through the columns of the Press beai* ing on the use and abuse of the totaliaator. If it were not for the laying of machine odds oil race days at the corner of Prmoes and Rattray streets there would not have been SO Trvnrh trouble about keeping that particular part of the (Sty dear for traffic. The success which attends a small percentage of backets only lasts foe a year or two, and each succeeding year brings ioB& a newbateh, wdy. in ttoir gg;

grandfathers did. Bookmakers, when hying totalisator odds, limit their “output” to 10 to 1, or, more correctly speak, mg, to 9 to I—that is to say, that if I want to “hack my fancy” for a hew Zealand Oup winner on the day of the race, the bookmaker accepts my pound with the proviso that he doesn’t pa? over includes my pound. The homo backed might at the same time be paying 20 or lOOto 1 against the odds of am, etc., October 30.