1956-04-02 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1956.

HOW THE OTHER HALF BETS

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HATEVER

over

By RICHARD GREENOUGH

The only way you can make a legal wager Is by the Tote. across the Pari-Mutuel counters, $2 window is the where the most popular.

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New York to the 4,819 race meetings on ing in an oll-time record

it

"take" of $180,080,580 is the 107 thoroughbredt courses in

(about for thin country last year to place £68,000,000)

the State. called elsewhere, $2,001,705,143 (£920,200,000) in compared with $170,000,000

here the legal bets.

It is impossible to (£62,750,000) or

Jost of

year and enly $94,000,000 "Sport of Kings" is hardly estimate how many millions

(£33,500,000) ten years ago. the "Sport of Presidents," dollars were wagered illegally.

'Bull rings' and that is not only because very few Presidents have ever shown any interest in racehorses or attended meetings.

With a tradition for the most honourable. 1 1

and incing has now become far more the set. Il a on industry,

vne involving directly alust quarter of the population of the US who place bets.

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well-organised and for big-time profit, ble lustry gamble, but quite illegal, ng all cf-coune betting is forbid.en except the gambley State of Nevadu

in the

There are some 40,000 re- gistered thoroughbreds country, at least half of them in rusing trading, and some 1,000 registered owners. About half of the top thoroughbred owners are woine21.

Women are also persistent and canny betlers at race meetings, but off the course they make only very small percentage of gamblers

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Apart from the meetings the amart tracks, such as New York's Belmont, up-State Saca

Miami's ideal, Cal- toga. fornia's Santa Anita, Kentucky's Irudition-misted Churchill Dowar af Maryland's Pumber counse Faregoing isn't carried

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the same spiral as in Badan

Less interest

THIE man In the street lacks

THE

interest,

-

andl

AST year California was next in attendancis with 6,000,000, In betting totals with There are no course bookley $18,000,000 (£140,000,000). as Britain knows them. No red- Apart from obscure Ittle faced, bowler-hatted "Honest courses that horsemen coll Joe Binks" or "Charlie Sparks." "bull rings," racing throughou! Off-course betting thrives, the US. is now supervised and particularly in

near big organised. This is done pri- cities like New York, Chicago, marily by State authorities. Los Angeles and Philadelphia.

and

Before the Kefauver investi- ting committee blew the lid off it. Miami had a nourishing illicit gam- $100,000,000-a-year bling empire with gangster the

and about 300 bookles, ups Nowadays the best estimate for this legal betting in anything froin 36 percent to 75 percent of the total wagered legally.

On salary

HOST bookmakers have to be backed by big-shot gamblers, who either keep a bootie on o salary or exact a finance fee.

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Mutuel prices, but with

Must bookies pay off at Pari- odds limited to generally 30-1 for a win and H-1 for a place, In ad-

İs invariably dition there commission to bet-placers, bar- men, bartenders, or newsstand boys, and a fee to the runner.

Despite

the chicules over betting, racing has become increasingly popular in the US. each your pince the war.

percent Federal Goverumcul

of

There afe technically a ten

tax on gambling und n $50 (£17 178) the Been

"occupational" tax all and 401 fessional

and enthusiasm.

bookies

other such occupa- amateur enjoyment in sport Ramblers. But us

Rugstuman tions arc that can keep an

Hlegal outside there is not

much chatting, arguing, in clubs, pubs. Nevada,

revenue frun this source. on street corners, about what i

Boch Stale Lakes anything a "cert" for the 2.30, and why.

from 11 percent to 15 percent Yet the ordinary junter here

tax from the Pari-Mutuel is as well, often heller, inform- ઈ.

has its own daily syalem, New York, for mstance, Racing

takes 15 percent, with 11 per- Press, as well as dozens of foun

most of cent going to the State and four sheets and

cards. which give het only fuli biogru- perevnt to track authorities.

In Florid

seven percent goes plues of a nurse but past per- formances and details, including to the track, Ove percent to the especially times over certain dis- State's old-age benefit fund, and

three percent tances, as most rees

tu the Local officially clockefl

counly authorities.

New York State topped the isual lust year with nearly $640,000,001 (£220,850,000) Wagered, result-

It marks

he are

more of a big

bustness than of a sport: but belting figures

is a very popular

Lataniless.

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folak ur 38,502,586 people went

Oddly enough there are very few willer articulate or success- ful anti-rucing or anti-betting bodies. They erop up from time Lo time as a rule when official investigations uncover especially maledorous activity.

some racetrack

of this nature there are are kept But on the whole what bodles

very much under control by local State authorities,

THERE is

T equivalent

no

of

President Eisen- hower's Presidential press conference in Britain. But the elect- ed Government is called to account for its actions in another way. At "Question Time" in the House

'While they're showing Malenkov the power-houses of Britain I wish they'd show him ours."

London Express Bervice

WHAT'S BITING THE

BRITISH

N

da

On the home front honourable

problem

PEOPLE

By YORKE HENDERSON

When Sir Anthony announcet It overy newspapermon who Jolution to details of the programme, at wants to attend la invited, the

constitu- least ono member, Labour MP Albert Hall

like

Secma

the

London Let's see what's worrying TOW and again some them at the moment....

disconsolute British of Commons, Minis.

members were concerning newspaperman be themselves with ters face the same

moans the fact that within

When this proposal was first couple of hundred il public grilling. Ques- London has no equivalent yards of their own doorstep at put forward as the

Westminster. What, they wanted

Malta's undisputed of Washington's Presiden- tions asked by the tial press conference.

to know, could the Government tonal and economic problems, T. C. Pannell, suggested that answer.

do about the hundreds

many honourable members don the Russian visitors might be duly elected repre. This. of course, is not thousande of starlings which

ned their rose-tinted spectacles

little." sentatives of the strictly true. Although Sir nightly invade famous Trafalgar to look at it. Now, faced with too fit much and travelling LABOUR PROBLEM:

Square?

the possible fructification of the Another member wanted Sir At the evening rush hour: doubts.

plan, many Are people reflect what Anthony Eden doesn't in-

assalled by Anthony to "nuke the most

exercising honourable vite the correspondents Trafalgar Square is about

In fairness some mem- forcible

members is the fact that the representations to our the people are gen- along for #1 weekly get nolay a place as

have made known their visitors to do something about British there

Transport Commission letting go the millions of slaves has received a nasty jolt. erally thinking about. together, he does have to Britain. But still the clatter of doubts from the beginning.

One not inconsiderable grup out of the concentration camps Court, the Commission was pro- homeward-bound Londoners and

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tary institution, "Question WORRIES HAVE WINGS: Time,"

when the de- mocratically elected repre- sentatives of the people take THE starlings reverse the pro- cess of commuting London- him to task. And his era. and spond their days Ministers regularly face the cavorting on Hampstead Heath same public grilling.

Last

Sir

week, when members were discussing a proposed visit to Parliament by Soviet leaders Kruschev and Bulganin, Anthony said he understood the intention was that they should attend Question Hour "which,"

he

that

in in Russia here under durned And as Secret Police chiet

into

150

In a

secuted for

employing young- tera during hours other than those permitted by the Employ-. ment of

Act of 1920. Now, whatever else the Bri-

open the door for other colonics iner, down went a question on and Chillden, Young PersOPS

Dicken-

t opposed, for the moment any- who are Way, to the principle of

Some of these fear tegration.

Malta's admission as part Ivan Serov flow of the United Kingdom

London would

aboard the latest Soviet jet air- to follow-with a disproportion- the Order Paper asking how ate effect on the

balance of many Russian security police tish Transport Commission are, political power at Westminster.

Many other members agree to Kruschey and Bulganin,

were to be admitted along with they certainly are not

stan wicked uncles,

No one integration in principle but feel

suggested that they had There # champion, that

gone Maltese and relum to the city in the Premier Dom Mintoff, must de- who see the wever, those into tho

child labour racket For But it did seem that they had evening.

monstrate more decisively the instance, with the denigration of offended against the Act. They of his people for the Stalin by the Communists in were fined £10 plus costs for The attraction apparently I idea.

full flood, Socialist MP Mr seriously-the hot air generated

George Jeger, asked the Thus, a spate of Parliamentary Minister if he would "pay atten

employing youths aged 16 and Prime by the cluster of government questions eating for a declaration to the musical programme question was down on the Onder

en night work. buildings

Within hours of the decision a around the Square. tion of Government policy on M Up to now firecrackers and the vexed Malla problem.

supersonic whistles have done

support

nothing to deter the starlings. GUESTS:

always" "ir, my experience has Now the Ministry of Works

an educative effect on foreigners, wherever they hap- pen to come from.

It follows then, that if you -want to know""wiyat is exercising. the British people you have only 30 note the sort of questions their duly elected representatives are sking at Westminster.

to try a long, low whistle.

No comment.

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the NATURALLY,

pending

are,

aide.

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court

short-

already

and note in particular how in- appropriate it would be if any Paper at Westminster demand- band were to play Pobr Olding of the Minister of Labour it

he were aware that this Joe'1"

But Premier Eden made plain decision would result in that "this is to be a serious # ago of labour. for the British

Transport Commission, 11 more serious vein, visit to Britain of Messra discussion between representa hard pressed to find recruits. members on both sides of the Kruscher and Bulganin got lives of two countries at presentAt the same time, experienced House were gnawing at the steelf discussed at Westminster, divided by many issues,” problems involved in the pro- Most members of the House

forecasting posed integration Malta, the bove their own ideas about how George Cross island, with best the occasion of the Russian metropolltan Britain.

leaders' visit can be utilised.

It

LITTLE CAESAR SAYS

were

Problem for the Russian visit railwaymen organisers where to hold the cancellation of trains and hard- promised press conference. by ships to remaining staff.. Bulganin and Kruschev.

ALAS, LOCHINVAR!:

OLD

MEN ARE BETTER LOVERS

SHOW TALK FROM NEW YORK by THOMAS - WISEMAN

eslimation of me

:

Triumph

that view.

that you

[IDNIGHT dashes by moon-

famous, Greina Green might be all very well between the covers of o romantle novel. But the list of Parliamentary questions reveal that many of the Scote their casier marriage laws are a standing invitation to under-ago elopers are not happy about their part in this.

Muck lovers to Scotland's

tho

In Scotland anyone over age of 10 can marry without parental conscrit. In England iho ago of discretion is 21. Young English couples who want to marry under age with- out the approval of their parents need only establish three weeks residential qualification north of the border.

The

Scots, as a whole, how- ever, retain a strong sense

lial duty. They do not, there fore, like being party to a setup which permits English young- sters to defy parental opposition

to their marriage.

Mrs Jean Mann, o

of

New York ly, "that's what I mean. The know-how, and optimism can If marriage was a calculated THE lift zoomed up to young are so cynical"

easily lighten.

risk, the man in his sixties was The dog

his the 17th storey, and

leaped out of Author Chayelsky, aged 33, usually capable of making more arms, ran towards me. After a has written a brilliant manifesto accurate calculations, before I had time to brief investigation he decided proclaiming the grandfathers I wondered whether oven the retrieve my stomach (which against licking my face, olivious right to self-determination and most brillant arithmetic ability had stayed at the second or by agreeing with his master's love.

could help much in such an as a cynical third floor) I found myself young man. Not the sort of guest man

As the story of a particular Incalculable relationship as be- a particular situation, tween a husband in his sixties facing Edward G. Robinson. who responds kindly to having "Middle of the Night" is a and wife in her twenties.

I noted....eyes like spy- his face licked.

But "What's superb piece of

reportage.

say?" holea....n anari of u mouth Robinson's statement about it has become much more than muttered Robinson, who is ....a nose like the sawn-off the bliss of being old was apt, that to the audiences who are little deaf. I repeated what I had barrel of a shot-gun. Large

packing the theatre every night. said.

To many tired old gentlemen Marienė.

Scottish strong fingers took mine in

it is refuveraing treatment.

Socialist MP, has tabled:a ques- a handcuff handshake,

At 63 he has just scored the The young, says Chayafsky, do Ther. he smiled... and the biggest triumph of the present not posses the exclusive rights "You would not understand on asking, in effect, for legisla scrambled features unscrambled Paddy Chayefsky, "Middle of and old gladly

Broadway Beason in a play by to love; and the middle-aged, till you

he said, "you are young...wait tion to mako a Scottish -inarri- are my ago....The age Invalid for English couplen a new face was sculpted out the Night! After 25 years ab

concur with

other night Marlene Dietrich under the age of consent who of Plasticine. Little Caesar be-

see the play."

have been refused came to

permission Broadway and Edward G. Robinson, who is ayes came the Little Man.

I said,

"I was there to marry by an-English court)) successful skulduggery in movies, ten years older than the charao-thint A anail dog Jumped into his he has returned to the stage in ter ho portrays, goes even

The grillre audience bad stood arma and began to lick his face. a

LESS DIVORCEI submitted American

a play which

the middle-aged further than this. Edward G. Robinson

to stare at the Fabulous male hae taken happily to this treatment

and

grandmother who looks young THE Scots, Mrs Mann mako straight to his tired, fatty old hugged the animal to him with

enough to be her own daughter. I clear, are perfectly happy heart

There you are," said Robin with their own: marriage inwa all the tendamess of Shirley

He has converted the magar- Temple making the acquaintance

sen," he asndred me, son triumphantly. "How old is which sein to work well for of Lassie.

daddy from a figure of fun into "are much better lovers, than she-867. Ago: la d' prob

problem that them. a man of stature and pathon. He young men. Women have always can be overcome. Some people fer case is based on letters is nightly illustrating that the found that to be true. An older live and die and they have never of complaint she has receivot American maxim, enjoy it now man is so much less selfish. He lived. The challenge of life 1 from English parents, and on and pay later is applicable also is kinder, more considerate, more to live...I'm a much happier the fact that the number of Polltely, he led me into the to the business of love.

knowledgeable he has the In- man now than I was at 20: You "over the border olopementi oak-panelled penthouse, Coffee and home-made

The story in which Robinson finite capacity for loving some can't imagine what fun it is has shot up dimmingly within biscuits were

playing is about an elderly, one else whereas** 2.

"many young (§ 1. sald 1 simply couldn't wait the pest four yours. served,

garment manufacturer who loves men have only on it. As I dropped in the UN back apparently more lax many lager

capa, to be 03, 6

Oddly enough," "despite

their "Old age' is wonderful' (and In-loved. By] Bả continued to lick his face as if it off both their families

they the.

tion that Aszógica which prae- deantly lower divorce raig thán werd gold candy;;po

Wonderful

from

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"Old

thin wald Robinson as the dog Despite they girl of 23. cHy for loving themselve

opposition Mr Roblhaon, who!

no carried at t

up

night,

- nach b¢ ́3% àrd 15min to earth: I came to the coneli- [lawi; the Scots have antigerin "Yerald "what a ply The Implication of the play the rare thought this thealty Invented youth has the english

Finclined to rush Jecided 5/mong "Skylthy Hornard je Wall Shere, you are n

decide to marry, ke

you have to be out to enjoy 115: ls that nik er tekmecely indociser into, marcia An, older mais fhew that youth i ddatos are the sort of things, pebble

thought, preciosas to

"young, thinking about in heltani, DIDN