Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-12-31

ENGLAND AND THE BRITISH ISLES

Bcopsfd who was one of the members with
dOsay (Nrabe), opens OF his novels with he-ne
dialogue; club always of the most popular
ubby fashionable novels which uwer and MIS-
Gore (photographng from real fOns) killed
But Crockor the proprietor like the North American In
dams who clear country of all game consumed all
the wealth the golden youth enpeSsc dfO OF his time was
OBLIGED horseacng for want of victims; he only died
Just himself from the bitterness OF the ruin on which,
over green green he had batened and aened
great favOurlc for the Derby was poisoned W
NIGHT before the race by the the stable guard him.
"Thc law assisted by the New Police put down gambling
houses between S42 Hitherto legislation has not at
tempted to interfere betting transactions carried out in P
vac subscpdonrooms and the bengings OF public race
courses professional gamblers who strictly perform their engage
pain expulsion and who are supposed to lay the odS
to nothing than FLYER five pounds and to owe the money
until regular settling day Readymoney gambling Illegal and
checked by the police but in 1873 was carried on con
spcuousy a all the great meetings
The expenses of a racing stud enormous The winnings
OF racehorsc insignificant such prizes the two
thousand gunea the Derby the Oaks St Leger
are landed comparison with the possible gains OF betting on the
scale n which that business is carried on
Betting prescns-n the words Of Dr. johnson (pcakng OF
Thaes brewery)-to sangune boy potentially OF
wealth beyond the dreams In horse described
by sporting reporter ninety guinea platter won for
his Cambdgeshc handicap worth 900 in stakes and
&I2ooo in bets!
"The losses are propoionate. volume of Sir Bernard
Buke Peerage or of Mr. County Families annotated
by quite ruined gentlemen who have made the turf
the their lives would trace the decay of many ancient
on the The the representatives professional betting
men to the position landowners would be equally marked and
curious
AS the value racing stakes and number of racehoes have
increased the trade gambling bets has been organised into
business the professor regularly follows circuits the most
important racc-mccng prepared bet against horse Those
who were called legs baclegs the last generation bear
the more gcncc bookmaers They the turf what
obbcs are cxchangcaw ready to do business by
LAYING against every every They include oevey
degree credit virtue only being required to secure
permanent place betting ring and in the privileged subcrp-
ton-rooms-buurfpal payment COrsa OF the sporting world
Linked with one virtue and thousand crimes
shady antcccdcnst the vicst habits, language
compounded slang thieves and the oahs OF Lancashire
compatible with high position as bookmaker pre-
pared the largest scale against everything and on the
fixed settling day without clubbing evasions
Bookmakers in the persons already alluded
to famary hackers horsca tribe who
either from information they received from the love OF
gambling occasional fancy, desire partcu
lar horse.
In every race importance each horse any reputation has
price quoted against morning and evening papers
a odds laid against any horse winning and as only
one horse can n makes his profit by laying against
every he find backeran essential point
The great object boomake trade is to find out horses that
cannot possibly wn-"dead un is the technical tcm-and by
laying against make OF profit The successful
boomaker may and does nothing about the proper
shape racehorse but he we'll acquainted with speromanes
and spares expense learn the OF health OF each
by OF spies called in racing phrase tous The
object the raceho who makes book is to concea
all about know all about his competitors In
place years ago. came out that noblemar
racehorscs employed outs to report the progress
rival stables.
In the Racing Calendar 1872 Prime Min
lister outof Mystery"
Long hanged poisoning hi
doubt previously poisoned his mother his wife and sea
obtained for betting as
the The that Wild Dayre ayount
fort formed the subject OF acetou
correspondence in sporting paper edited by a turf oracle
this villain Palmer l@r
replied the him
hof verdict of "uIt defyer
OF il