RACING IN AUSTRALIA.
BOOKMAKERS AND THE LAW.
INGENUITY OF EVASIONS..
MELBOURNE. Nor. 16
In his evidence before the Select Committee on racing, Mr. M. Ilogan, chairman of the stipendiary stewards of South Australia, said bookmakers were banned in South Australia, but they had a wonderful system of evading the law. They wore overcoats with false pockets, through which they put their hands into inside tronser pockets and wrote their bets. Their Writing was perfect. No names were used. One man was discovered with an elastic band round his thighs, to which a pad was attached on which he wrote his bets. The police took a photograph of tho pad, which was now hanging in a room in the South Australian Jockey Club. Tho" chairman of tho committee interjected: "I suppose that is how the phrase ' under the lap' originated.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20105, 16 November 1928, Page 13
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