LAW AGAINST BRIDGE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 129, 2 June 1908, Page 6

LAW AGAINST BRIDGE.

CONSTERNATION IN AMERICAN DRAWING-ROOMS.

NEW YORK,, April 16. Fashionable and diplomatic circles in Washington are to-day bemoaning the fate which threatens not only to deprive them of the liberty occasionally to risk a "pony" on a favourite horse, but also to render illegal the favourite pastime of bridge and card playing generally. Their despair is due to the AntiGambling Bill which the Senate has just sanctioned prohibiting in the most stringent 'terms all possible forms of gambling in drawing-rooms no less than on racecourses. If the action of the Senate is confirmed, by the House of Representatives all people who play cards for the most trifling stakes, even in their own homes, or bet on a horse race, boat race, or any other kind of race, or on an election or any contest of any kind, will be liable to a fine of £100 and imprisonment for ninety days. '

The Embassies and Legations, which are ex-territorial, will alone be exempt from the operations of the law.