BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA.
Feilding Racing Club has called "Cheek" to the bookmakers. It remains to be seen whether i£ is checkmate. Forty pounns per diem for bookmaker and the indispensable clerk fs a stiff impost, but it is in accordance with the Act, and the Bookmakers would have been wise, as a matter of tactics ? to have sent in two or three of their number even at that price. And it would have paid them. To remain outside the gates, so many peri kept outside paradise by a large policeman, was, to say the least, undignified, and the blow will be hard to recover from. The bookmakers have closed their "tote shops," and they have not got on to the course, 30 that they are metaphorically between the devil of the race committees and the deep sea of extinction. And the danger to them is that the public, resenting the objeot for whioh the bookmakers were to be forced in,-is With the racing clnbs.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 278, 2 December 1907, Page 4
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