THE BETTING POSITION IN NEW YORK.
In chatting about the betting position in New York, and the difficulties besetting backers, an American writer says with operations conducted as at present the odds are ridiculous, and, besides, the system in vogue opens up a fruitful field for the welsher. The “ regulars ” are adopting the English system of “betting on the nod,” with a settlement each day, but the occasional visitor to the track finds some difficulty at present in getting his bit on. However, in the city, pool rooms are still flourishing, and here reasonable odds can be obtained, strange to say. And yet the reform element pretended that it was really the betting rooms in New York and throughout the State they were mainly attacking.
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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 1010, 15 July 1909, Page 6
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125THE BETTING POSITION IN NEW YORK. New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 1010, 15 July 1909, Page 6
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