| Show J I THE TH POOR BOOKMAKERS T HE WIL that the the race racehorse ce T THE I horse hors gamblers are raising raining throughout the country because a co cc coterie torte terSe of shrewder gamblers aron a large lr fortune en an as unknown horse bone Is to ont o of the amusing features of the recent dis dispatches patches Appropriately enough enouch the horse bOrse is ts named The Fiddler and the bookmakers that Is the men who W bf fer odds to aU aM corners comer that one hone or another aDOther will not win a specified race are paying him It so very often that the gain gam gambler bier bler 1 ler to Is called coiled upon to pay the fiddler When he to Ja 1 forced to disgorge he should do 60 so with at least leant a veneer of good pod grace crace The dispatches say sa that the U In ID siders on on The Fiddler good thing cleaned clean up ap something like Uke Th Thai backed at t 20 to 1 to win WiD and he dI 41 win th in handsome style Now a acry aery acry cry ery of fit o Jobbery with wit th honest heat book bookmaker maker mk as an the victim has gone up Of course coune your honest bookmaker book er never Deer put up a Job in his life Ufe Whon he wins he wins honestly and md when he loses which to rarely thre t is I fraud somewhere It is sinful for tor the public to try to t take away awa the bookmakers money mOney This notwithstanding the fact tact that there is ii not a wealthy profession professional al at bookmaker aker in the country who ha hill has hillen given en an honest dollar doHar dolt in value vahle for tor every dollar of or his hll wealth Th The same me thing is true rue of oC gamblers generally aen r ity honest and otherwise But we must confine this discussion dl to bookmakers bO What right have baSe ha e gamblers of their stripe to enter a protest A compe competent tent authority says that millions of e dollars are lost every year to the book k bookmakers bookmakers makers by the nubile DubU With rare ex cx exceptions the man who persistently fol rol follows follows lows Jows the monies becomes a pauper within a few months or a few years at atmo most t The exceptions to this rule am are amso areso so few that they are hardly har ll erth not ROt noting ROtI lag ing I Homes have been broken up for fortunes fort fortunes tunes t worse than wasted lives ruined by hy the gamblers who make inake hone race e odds odd for the public It may be said wd and truthfully that the gamblers do d not Dot retain alt the money that to Is wagered Of course e not Somebody wins money fo th every race but nt another somebody must mut lose oe o for f In lh the na one or orthe orthe orthe the few to win The process of accumulation by the tho successful rul bookmaker ker may apparently be low clew but it to is sure re and In the end he Inevitably does get all aU the money Therefore he should 6 not scream cream with anguish when the pub pith b He lie temporarily gets getsi A little of o it back |
