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No. 22,194 KOTAILS BADAN#22 HONG KONG, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1929,

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TOTALISATORS.”.

OUSTING THE BRITISH BOOKMAKERS.

MECHANICAL LAYER ATTRACTING MANY BACKERS.

STARTING PRICES AND "TOTE" ODDS.

[By ARCH RODGERS, United Press Stall Correspondant.]

LONDON Half a dozen machines"!

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Tote betting away from the course.

An Improvement.

Poor, Poor Bookies What will the bookmakers do to bold their own against the me- chanical layer that is attracting that they must bet blind" on the The objection of many backers thousands of their farmer custom Tote is to be remedied. The con- ers, especially the small bettors who tention is true at present, for there bet for a place only! The first pro-is no way of knowing what the odds are until all the bets have been pooled and the prices to win, and place calculated. Yet Sir George Julius, originator of the electric tetalisator, has perfected an im provement which shows the odds on every horse up to the time of start- ing.

in England may revolutionize one of the greatest gambling institu- tions in the world, betting on British horse racing. The machines, housed in bare drab buildings and accessible to the betting public only through rows of small win-tective move taken by the bookies dows, are Totalisators, more popu- was the establishment of a rigid limit on the prices they will pay The famous 100 to 1 win of The Bastard at Newmarket showed the bookies that they could not aunt ridicously long odds in the face of the Tate.

larly known as "Totes."-

Judging from the amount of each invested in the Tote during its first week's operation At Newmarket, where the machine collected £13,000 a day, the new method has come to stay. Bookmakers have already set definite limits to their odds, for they can not afford to compete with the Tote in offering long prices to attract basizcas.

Lway.

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They have now placed limits of 100 to 1 on the classic races, where bets are made weeks in advance, and limited place bets for such races at 23 to L. The chances of a 100 to 1.shot winning a classic in which well known horses are com peting, are all in favour of the bookies,

have established a limit of 33 to 1 On ordinary races the bookies to win, and 10 to 1 for a place. a place is worth one fourth of the On an ordinary "each way" bet.

price quoted.

*** The Old Firm,” More Totes will come to the race courses of England, where bookies, tipsters, and tick-tackers have be come as much a part of the scene na the field coming into the straight- "The Old Firm" is still going strong, shouting odds until off," and tossing the cash into the large satchel that decorates the front of every bookmaker's stand.

"S.P." Merchants, But the hookies are casting

There is one class of layer in the anxious glances in the direction of beiting world which will not be their new competition. Thousands greatly affected by the Totalisator. of pounds sterling that formerly This is the S. P., or Starting Price went into the antehels have found bookmakers, who do the great ma- their way through the Tote win-jority of their business with stay- dows. And according to the plans at-home backers The S.P. offices of the Betting Control Board, the give bettors their choice between the electric machines that calculate the Starting Price and the dividend odds to win and place, according to returned by the Tote. the amount bot on each horec, will eventually be installed on every

course in the country.

The profits of the Tate are devot ed to the improvement of racing conditions. The Betting Control Board, under the jurisdiction of the Jockey Club, deducts six per cent. from the Tote takings for operating expenses The rest will e applied to the maintenance of racing, the improvement of breed- ings, and various charitable objects. The Board wishes to make racing cheaper for the public, and as a result of the first operation of the Tote at Newmarket, admission into Tatersall's ring will be reduced by five abillings at the next meeting. English Tote bettors have the advantage over backers on pari mutuels in other countries, where the Tote operators usually take as high as ten per cent. before deter mining the win and place dividends.

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divides, and will keep abreast of The machine adds, subtracts, and the rapidly fluctuating odds as quickly as a bookmaker can rub out one price on his board and chalk up another. This will elimi nate the most serious objection to the Totalisator, and may prove a hard blow to the bookies, who will naturally have to make their prices at least as good as those the Tote offers.

the courses have already been hard Small bookmakers operating on

hit by the Tote. The machine usually "gives a much better price for a place than the bookies can offer, and the Tote has therefore attracted thousands of one and two shilling place bettors, mostly in the bookies' satchels, women, whose coin formerly jingled

Good Placers.

In a field of over seven runners,

second and third are good for places. Place betting on the Tate. The Starting Price is determined has probably accounted for more by representatives of the three lend-loss of revenue to the bookies than ing racing papers, The Sporting each way bets or straight bets to Sporting Chronicle. The three men Life, The Sportsman, and the win. establish the Starting Price of eachparently fairly evenly divided on The British betting public is ap

average of the odds offered on the Tatalisator. Many of the old school horse in each race by taking an supporting and condemning the

hered to, and considered official in course. The prices are strictly ad- of bettors will have none of the all S.P. offices.

The Starting Price operators have representatives on the race course who fight their battle against the Tote. But they are not worried about the thousands of bettors who dash to the telephone five minutes before a race and make their beta of anywhere from half a crown to ten shillings.

The layers say that these bettors usually take their chances with the Starting Price, and rarely ask for Tote odds. This class of revenue for the S.P. men will probably never be disturbed by the Tote, for no provision has yet been made for

new fashioned method, and thou- sands of others would sincerely regret the passing of the bookies and his picturesque colleagues,

men with the satchels will disap

No one predicts that, the gentle- pear from their familiar posts. within the immediate future but there is the possibility that the betting machines will eventually furce the Old Firm to at least take a rest.

Many bettors who tried out the Tote as a novelty did not like it. The English love of horse racing may create enough business to keep hoth the Tote and the more sub- xtantial bookies busy.

Diary of Coming Events.

To-asy, (September 5.).

Legislative Council Meeting, 2.30

Queen's Theatre: Torcat's Roos- ters, 7.15 and 8.20 p.m. "The Show People."

World Theatre: "Gigolo" at 5.18 and 8.20 p.m. "The Mark of Plum," Chinese picture, at 2.30 and 7.15 p.m.

Star Theatre: The Mysterious Lady,"

Dinner Dances H.K. Hotel, Peninsula, and Repulse Bay Hotels, 8.30 pm.

Tides:-High: 10.42 a.m. and 11.14 p.m.; Low: '3.52 am, and 4.57

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Queen's Theatre: Torcat's Roos- ters, 7.15 and D.20 p.m. The Show People."

World Theatre: "Gigolo" at 3.15 and 9.20 p.m. "The Mark of Plum." Chinese picture, at 9:30 and 7:15 p.m.

Star Theatre: "The Mysterious Lady."

Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel, 8.20 p.m. "

Tides-High: 11.30 am. and 11.38 p.m.; Low: 4,29 a.m, and 6.28

p.m.

Baturday. (September 7.)

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Golf: Captain's Cup, Kong

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Queen's Theatre: sr.Red Hot Speed."

World Theatre: "Maxim's Bar Boy," 8.15 p.m. and 9.20 p.m. The Unconquerable." (Chinese picture), 2.30 and 7.15 p.m.

Star Theatre: Father."

Bringing up

Tea Dance: Repulse. Bay Hotel,

Golf: Captain's Cup.

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European Mails:-Inward: Queen's Theatro: "The Show Europe vid Negapatam, letters and People," Torent's Roasters.. papers, London, August 8, (8.

Star Theatre: "The Mysterious Kutsang). Lady."

Tides: High: 12.18 p.m.; Low: World Theatre: Gigolo at 8,156,27 am, and 5.57 p.." p.m. and 8.15 pm. "The Mark of the Plum," Chinese picture at 2.30 p.m. and 7.16 p.m.

Tea Dances Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 430 p.m.

Dinner Dance: Repulse Bay Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

European Mails: - Outward:

Europe vid Marseilles, 0.30 am (Hakusan Maru),

Tides:-Bigh: 12.03 a.m. and 1.07 Low: 6.17 am and 6.22 p.m.

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World Theatre: Maxim's Bar. Boy," 5.15 p.m. and 9.20 p.m. "The Unconquerable (Chinese picture), 2.30 and 7.15 p.m..

Star Theatre: Bringing up Father."

Dinner Dances: HK. Hotel, Ilepulse Bay Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

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Tides:-High: 12.29 a.m 1.53 p.m.; Low: 7.12.am, and 6,40

p.m.

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