GAMBLING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 89, 3 June 1911, Page 4

GAMBLING.

i!,’i!i I’;;- the ; ••upresri- •:* "I bc-ik :•;il' -: s \\:i.-ii 1 1 :•ir-wd 11".' D, bb i’.M H,;me:it m:;y I'’. l oxv>-‘< ted to have ;;i. icant iniluciico upon the gambling habit in the I*niL«‘tl Kingdom, says tlio “G uardian.” For many years oast a number of F.nglisli bookmakers have inatlo thiir headquarters in tho Island of Walc'lßTtMi, at Flushing and .M iddelbm g, pa l llv because the Dutch law did rat interfere with them, and partly because the conveniences of a spotconnected with England hy two boats daily enabled them to conduct their operations with great facility; They advertised extensively in English new r.papcrs, and reaped a I golden harvest through tiic post, ft scorns to ho impossible to convince a certain class of mind that the, odds arc always in favour of tho bookmaker, just as the chances arc always in favour of tho tables at Monte Carlo, and that although “plungers” may often win, and sometimes heavily, “the bank,” whether it takes the form of a bookmaker or a tronte-et-qnarante table, is hound to gain in tho end.