“GEE-GEE” S.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 426, 22 September 1898, Page 16

“GEE-GEE” S.

“ Petronel,” who, when provoked, writes open letters in the columns of Sporting Review, prides himself in being what the colonial youth would call “ a bit of a nark.” He thinks h® has made a convert of G.G.S., and in proof joyfully introduces to our notice a pamphlet, from the pen of G.G.S., in defence of the totalisator. It is brimful of sentiment, but the following paragraph from such a source sounds like a satire:—"Do those people who think they ar® justified on moral grounds in interfering with that which does not concern them, know that.th® ethics of the turf stand on as high a plane with respect to morality as any organization or institution that can be named. The leaders of th® racin' world are expected to be above reproach, their every act must be chivalrous and magnanimous, their horses must be run in the interest of the community, and, in fact, the owner of a public favorite is in all his actions expected to be like Caesar’s wife, above suspicion. A typical sportsman is courageous, truthful, unselfish, and generous to a degree rarely met in any other walk of life; but like i very other institutionincluding the Church and the Stage—it has it® dregs, and unfortunately the narrowness and want of charity on the part of the Pharisees of society is su?h that they will insist npon measuring the turf morality of the majority by th® vices of the minority.”