MASTER-MINDS OF THE RING KAISER
They queue to phone from a racecourse
By CLIVE GRAHAM
racing
One of the great differences between the modern
scene and that of 25 years ago consists in the com- parative scarcity of professional backers.
In the days before the Second World War the leading owners and trainers usually employed these middlemen to work their commissions for them.
Grouped before racing, around the chutpagne bar or some con- venjent gathering polm In Tatier salls Ring, eng would see, apart frum Hann and Mart, such notable lirtting personalities
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Fred "HOR Eye" Parker (known as "the Mayor of Nor thumplen" but whether this was a fact or a nickname I was wever wholly sure).
Bammy
Wilkie Collins, with Marks in close attendance..
Pierre 1ggins,
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"Pip" Downing.
Wo no cany matter to place » bel of £100,000, mostly by buying even £1,000 with any one book- slinres In Irish Sweepstake maker. lehets when his horse, North
ist, won the 1931 Manchester November Handicap,
One could expect to see Jesse Brown, sardonle Vio Swift, and grun "Tatey" perhaps bluff, from Newcastle, with that he diamond ring on the little fuger of his left hund and a turn of expression which made "Scolch Johnny Marr sound, com
arison, ke Sunday school teacher.
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England's Soccer XI
Pictured here are the England soccer team who drew 1-1 with Scotland at Hampden Park in their Home International match last Saturday.
A backer, wishing to invest that sum on a horse at, say, 10-1, would probably be mere £100. His request would, be overheard almost certainly, and the other bookmakers would probably cut the odds perhaps to 5- when he endeavoured to put on the rest of the money. The shrewdest of the modern professional backers now cir- cunvent this state of affairs by placing their bets with book- makers in Cape Town, Johan- Yes, there are not many of nesburg, Durban, and other big that kind around nowadays. cities In South Africa.
A member of the
Here, in the betting clubs, Club, London's main belting bookmakers are prepared to bet fixed odds on English centre, remarked to "Bookmakers will
Reuterphoto. con racing. They are suppiled by iinue to make a livelihood, agents in England with lists of for, by and large, there are probable runners always the uncertainties In- starting prices. These prices are volved in the luck of racing, usually obtained by taking the and a consequent percentage mean of the beting forecast In our favour."
published in the Dally Express He
and Sporting Life.
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out, went on to point though, that the general pubile who bet un racing are siderably better informed that they were formerly.
and Iikely
Fixed odds
The professional backer will make a telephone call to his This is due, parily, he thought, contact in one of these clubs, in- South what odds the to the im; wed elliclency of the quire
pro services vering racing in the African bookmakers aro
abers, and also to the pared to lny, and compare these taily, new education and insight into the with his own estimates and bet
uccordingly. to play and mate in two moves.port imparied by the large num- on television
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On The average racing day, when especially in mid-week, attendances are small. t is now
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"Lant year for Instance," related the spokesman for
while small, syndicate
has this form of long- taken up range beiting "we were able
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MY GOSH! JOVE? THE BOMB!
They are (from left): Standing-Armfield (Blackpool); Slater (Wolves), Flowers (Wolves), Springett (Wednesday goalkeeper), Parry (Bolton), Wilson (Huddersfield). Front row-Connelly (Burnley), Broadbent (Wolves), Clayton (Blackburn-Captain), Baker (Hibernian) and Charlton (Manchester United).—
to make any to obtain 10-1 about a horse prices and not which started at 6-4. The changes in them unili the agent value of this method is that for the. English professional under South African. betting backer has finished his betting.
bookmaker is forced rules a
to bel against horses at fred. odds to an agreed amount of money.
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The South African contact man gels his instructionis, goes into the betting club, which is
into cubicles. divided occupied by a bookmaker and his eterk, with the current odds chalked on a board. He presses the bution of an electric bell.
On this signal the bookmakers are compelled to "freeze" their
AND MEANWHILE THE COLONEL BIBERS, QUITE UMAWARE THAT HIS BOMB HAS BEEN SIGLEN
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Continuous
Strange though it may seem to you, there is almost continuous contact during racing hours in the summer between the Soulb African betting clubs and the racecourse telephone kiosks.
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This may explain, inciden- lally, why as times these are
difficult of access to or dinary, members of the public Why do these faraway book makers go to such pains to take and lay-off bels on our races?
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"Well," answered the spokes- man, "you have to consider that our sañaner coincides with the South African winter, the slack
racing period there for
und belling.
"You irust also remember that even professional backers find winners all the cannot time."
of This form placing bets would probably have bean wit of Chartic beyond The Hannam or "Scotch Jahnny" Marr to devise, but it serves to show the ramifications attached to the plain, straightforward, it none-too-easy task of compliing a daily betting forecast.
(London Express Service).
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