The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-21
HANDBOOK MAKER IS
SLY MAN IN GERMANY
Extraordinarily Rigorous Laws
Fail to Keep We1chers and
Others From Laying Odds.
EAGER FOR OLD SYSTEM
Race Track Owners Are the
Only Ones Opposed to Re
vival of Bookie and Block.

4 gnod racing season IS antIctpsteo
IN Germany. but the betting 9uestion
still remains an open one The gov
erumnut tax on the totalizator Is
heavy one lover per cents and the
bookmakcr is, dealt with in sum
mary manner. His money is confis-
Gated aud he is punished as rogue
and vaeaboud. No competition is
pcrmitted with the government, aud
ia check any eIandestiue betting, race
societies arc authorized to appoint
agencies in different parts of the coun-
trv 10 receive the money of investors
and forward il by wire for investment
20 tbc secretary OF the race course
wherever the. meeting is to be held
According 10 police reports, ciandes'
tine betting is moro extensively re-
sorted to in Germany than elsewhere
There il not a race OF note In eTef
many, France or England which does
not lead to good business for the legion
who know how TO find customers, not
withstauding sll the precautions car
ried on. Though il may seem 1ncred-
ible, it is nevertheless a fact that the
chief or police has come to the con
rlusion that the time has come TO set
tic the question bv licensing book
makers, who would pay tax to the
government in exchange for recogni-
lion and the right to carry on business
openly. Strange to say, the opposition
offered 10 such a project comes from
the race societies. They imagine that
the advent or resurrection OF the book
maker wonld decrease their takings
at the totalizator and impair their
budgets. They have consequently de"
elined to entertain any of the PROPOSE
tions made them. so that the unlicensed
ard irresponsible layer Is LETT free to
continue on the old lines, as he has
his money in hand and pays when lie
cannot do otherwise, knowing that no
action can be taken.
Some time since arrangements were
made in Germany for the insurance of
Jockeys riding on the flat or over hur-
dies. An agreement was made that
each licensed rider should pay cer-
toiu sum annually, and further con.
tribution for each ride in public, while
the different race societies promised
TO make up the difference between the
sums paid by the jockeys and the
amount Of the premium required by
the insurance company. Tho whole af
fair was worked ont and instituted
by the Union of Breeders and Owners,
but II appears from explanations given
by Captain Won Krausc, secretary of
The committee, that the majority of the
jockeys likely 70 benefit by the scheme
of Insurance have found parting such
sweet sorrow that they have been
more lax in the payment of their pre-
1niums, and have thus cansed consid-
crable inconvenience to the committee.
Captain Won Krausc suggested that in
future those who paid mp their pre-
miums punctually. that is to say, the
Sl2-5o and $50 respectively, with the
additional shilling for each ride, by
the first of July, and then the addi-
tioual riding fees due OH the first of
October and the balance on the first
of December, should only be called ON
to pay sixpeuee in lieu of shilling
for each occasion on which they had
ridden.