Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-03
Some Facts About Betting on the
Races, Where You
Must Lose.
COMPLAINTS ON GAMBLING.
Events Are on the Square but
Public Pays Heavily
Forthe Game.
Boys and Girls and Their Parents Lose
HcaylIy-ogdcn's Experience
\ On Recent Meet.

From the opening day of the 40 days
race meeting at the State Fair
grounds track under the auspices of
the Utah Jockey club to the present
time, complaints have been register
ed thick and fast against the one
Objectionable phase of the game
gambling! 4 Parents complain that their
sons and daughters have contracted
6the gambling habit and have lost
money at the track. Husbands have
had reason to complain about wives,
& and wives about husbands.
And the ''bookies' get the money!
Since horse racing began IT has been
called "Tlle Sport Of Kings, and
from one standpoint kings, and their
fayorites are the only ones who can
afford to play the game.
THE boobies" get the money! 5
Nearly every state in the union has
declared against the gambling phase
OF horse racing. 1t has been weighed
in the balance and found wanting.
The misery 1t has caused by creating
dcsolate homes. drunkards. thieves,
etc. Is the motive power which has
moved the legislatures to enact laws
prohibiting race track gambling, and,
consequently morse racing because.
there is no successful horse racing
without the attendant evil. @5
On Decoration day there were IL
books in operation at the State Far
ground track and they did a rushing
business The betting ring was mass
of excited hunanlty some of the bet
y tiers cashing tickets but most of them
tearing UP the useless cards which in-3
dictated they had bet on an also ran.
Men. women and gilded youths, and
even Innocent girls lost OF course
some of them Won but in the end
Tie bookies got the money.
TWENTY CHANCES. AGAINST.
One Of the Oldest members Of the
Tor the statement thai the bookrakers
cleaned up in any season OF racing at
least 20 to L. ,rha { is. for every dollar
they paid out they took in5 twenty doi-i
lars. Then what chance has the nun
who plays the. races? The bookmakcrs
pay the Jockey club q big price per dag
for the privilege of cooperating in the
betting ring. A There is the bookmak-
en- the clerks, the man who watches
Il ~
odds, and other employees. They have
to he paid. The concession price has
10 be paid and all expect to live in
case, Where does the money come
from? Would there be any bookies if
ittMere not a paving game2 Certainly
not. The public furnishes the money
and the bookics get It.
1t is the same ms any form OF gam
hing. Take a big gambling house for
t,,, ~,
TO pay, a big light bill to meet. some
times police to .ffX,'H license or, fine
10 pay, dealers who get from Sc to IS
iter shift to pay, costly furnishings
aud a hundred and one other expenses
which must he met every day, Then,
how can any sane person expect to beat
the game, on. games?
i is the same with the horse racing
game. II is said the man who grad
yates as a gambler becomes book
maker
WOMEN ENCOURAGED.
Little wonder that there are COM
plants about local conditions The
chief protest has been made because
Z women are encouraged TO bet on tile
races. Agents of a bookinaker 70
among them in the grand stand Offer
ing odds OIL this OF. that horse. AT first
II was declared that some of the agents
were not square with the fair betters:
mat the odds We're not correctly stat:d:
some Of the agents We're merely
touts IN different guise; that in Some
Instances Where along shot won the
amount given to the winner was not
y IN accordance with the odds origina lily
offered. Women and girls and boys
nave been seen to wager money at thu
present meeting. & "
"A IS days meeting closed recently at
ogden. 1t was hailed as II. great sue
cess and no doubt it was-froin tn.
SAMPLERS standpoint-but from all ac-E
counts the Ogden people who attended
me races had their eye teeth cut, TO say
noihing of their pocketbooks emptietl
MANY prominent men OF the Junction
< LILY nave come out With emphatic de-
variations against the game. The 1ie,,--SS
.ld OF this city quotes the following on
the matter: ~
OGDEN EXPERIENCES.
Alexander l.. BreWer. mayor of Os-
neill--Ogden has learned a lesson 1t
was IN expensive experience, an ax-
tiGellenee sthatit VIII take the city long
. ~, 10 recover from. believe tllac5
we sentiment here now is strongly
ssaiAnst horse racing, il the. sport can
not ne conducted without the books
2
,- 9ah'es Pingree. cashier of i'ing.pe
Ma. NATIONAL bank--I have yet TO hear OF
on person in Ogden who Won any
~ a t the raceimeeting here. know
WIS or persons who lost money they
,teeaed for the necessaries of life. But
no = 10 not regard the money so lost the
Greatest evil experienced because of the
!, s., here here The demoraiizing Influence
,s. iiaa on our citizens. our young people.
is most to be regretted
. - y. a; a. Moves. paying teller First Ma
5 '.t''i,a. bank of Ogden-Wcs cater 70
4s s,l eEositors and il was the SINAI!
aepositors who suffered most because
q y. the races It was shameful the Why
saneS were robbed. Every dag deposit
~. !. mere drew out money and toos
Z 70 the RACES, and during the entire
meeting y si Will say that not one In 50
:" !. these who drew out money brought
~ 6Haels--or II they brought money
i "a did not bring back as much
as they drew out =. = ,9s
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