The Totalizator. TO THE EDITOR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2471, 24 July 1901, Page 52

The Totalizator. TO THE EDITOR.

Sib, — In your sporting columns you advocate the cause of the bookmaker versus totalisator. If the Racing Clubs allow the bookmakers to attend local meetings and bet with the people how are the clubs to" continue paying out liberal stakes to horseowners? If the bookmakers get the business then the clubs must curtail stakes, and owners should bear this in mmd. In Dunedin there are not half a dozen sound bookmakers, but there are scores of spielerE who, at country race meetings, pose as bookies, and simply rob their unsuspecting clients. As far as coiintry meetings are concerned the machine is quit© good enough, and the country people do not want the city's scum palmed off on them as bookmakers. " R-einein-ber Lochiel " should be the sportsman's motto. The totalisator gives the owners a big share of the profit that erstwhile found bookies in diamonds and champagne. Let us stick to the tote, and confound the leeches of the turf say I.— l am, etc., Spobt. [I would suggest that " Spoit " should reread the article to which I presume he alludes, aa he places a construction on the article entirely at variance vrith what was written. Also, if we have thieves on oui racecourses we have also police. — Sport. E<L 0.W.1