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BOOKMAKING ON BRITISH FOOTBALL GAMES. With his notification of the race meetings at which be. is transacting business in the following week a .turf accountant" named William Roberts of Brockley now sends out his "football card, which is," he" says, "the latest form of speculation." It is common knowledge that there Is nowadays a great amount of betting on football matches, but it will be news to most people to hear that it has gone so far as .this. The card gives a list of sixteen matches and quotes the odds which the bookmaker will lay against the backer naming three "home team winners," three away" winners," and so on to the number of about thirty different predictions. London Truth. f
