Show REFORMERS REFORMERS' NEW PLAN To Prevent Gambling Excesses Excesses Excesses Ex Ex- Ex- Ex They Make Betting Betting Bet Bet- ting a Valid Contract NEW YORK Feb 20 The The trial of Goudie's alleged accomplice in the Liverpool bank frauds Is exciting more interest than anything going on in ir- public public pub pub- lic lie or social life ife says a London dispatch dispatch dispatch dis dis- I patch to the Tribu Tribune e It Is an object lesson of the criminal tendencies prevailing in betting more practical than an any an evidence obtained by the select committee of or the House of or Lords during Its sessions Th The fact induces the practical re reformers reformers reformers re- re formers to believe the best method of preventing abuses and excesses in gambling on horse racing will wUl be to tomake tomake tomake make betting letting a valid contract which can be enforced by legal process only within a month and to render it a criminal criminal criminal crim crim- inal offence for bookmakers to attempt to obtain money after that period by threats of or exposure exposure- or otherwise |