RINGING-IN AND TOLDING-OUT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17354, 20 May 1924, Page 6

RINGING-IN AND TOLDING-OUT.

j Looked at from the circumference by men who do not follow and therefore do not know trotting, the “ ringi ing-in ’* trials that came to an end tins j week may have no particular, or at 1 least no novel, significnce. In their • minds they can only confirm the con- . viction which was more than hinted I at by the learned judge in the Dunedin l Court of something evil in the nature of racing, which makes it easy for men to be less scrupulous in regard to it than they would be in their ordinary j business affstirs. The view of the j regular racing men. who have only abj horrence for cheating, on the cases that j have been before the courts. is entitled to be heard. Count the crowds I at trotting races, and it will be found J that there are 10,000 or more of" such | men south of the "Waitaki : probably 100.000 altogether in New Zealand—a considerable section of the population 1 The views held by the best of these | men have a ciaim to attention. bc- | cause they can speak from knowledge j and experience. How do they regard the trials? They are furiously angrv j with the delinquents.—“ Star/* Dunedin.