Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1911 — BETTING IN ENGLAND [ARTICLE]

BETTING IN ENGLAND

Great Increase In Gambling Reported to League Which Is Fighting. Evil—Women Victims. London.—Gambling Is on the increase in England. According to reports to the British Anti-Gambling league, organized gambling Is making gigantic strides, and this despite the fact that the police have made iV very difficult for one to place bets.,in London and the other big cities of the kingdom. It is stated that whereas a century ago there were.only 20 bookmakers in Great Britain and Ireland there are now some 30,000 men getting their living wholly or partly in this way. The turnover Is estimated at about $400,000,000 on horse racing, and $150,000,000 on football and other sports. The gambling evil, too, is spreading alarmingly among women and children and is restricted to no particular class of society. .1. There have been 46 cases of women bookmakers before the courts in the last year. S. The league has protested to the government against the receipt of foreign lottery circulars and called the attention of the police to the existence of many girls* betting clubs. * -T, * y-.

To show how deeply the gambling passion has taken hold, the directors of the league declare there are many bookmakers who stoop so low as to take bets for sixpence or a shilling from girls or boys.