It is a great thing for John Ilobbs to say he is a teetotaller, and if the whole of our cricketers in Australia had been teetotallers they would have returned with better results than they did. The great menace to football is gambling and betting. Thirty years ago I could have said there was no organised betting on football, but I could not say that to-day.—Mr John Lewis (vice-president of the Football Association.)
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17759, 1 February 1926, Page 3
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