GAMBLING MENACE
'DEATH-KNELL OP SPORT'
BROADCASTING BLAMED
SYDNEY, Sept. 15.
A warning that gambling would sound the death-knell of sport was made by the secretary of the Hunter River District Cricket Umpires' Association,. Mr. R. A. Dransfield, in his report to the annual meeting of the association last night. „....'.
"The greatest bugbear to the encouragement of any clean sport is the alarm-* mg growth of gjambling among our youths," said Mr. Dransfield. "Encour-agement-of this evil may be laid at.the door of broadcasting * -which broadcast results of races, and a Government too weak and avaricious to curtail this pernicious pandering to a recognised weakness in the Australian complex.
"It is saddening to realise," Mr. Dransfield added, "that the youth of our country more and more prefers to gather in an atmospnere the reverse of healthy, drawn by the elusive will-o'-the-wisp magnet of 'something for nothing.' It is high time the Government realised that the logical outcome of allowing encouragement of this- weakness, apparently inherent in human nature, will be a gradual diminution of the national, mental and physical wellbeing. n
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19128, 24 September 1936, Page 5
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