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! , 1 1 HUNGARIAN BETTING ODDITY. Referring to betting agitation on the other side, a writer in Sports of the Times lias this: "Can we read an index finger from the other side? doubt it. The Semitic papers in Hungary, a very sporting country by the way, attacked betting at the races, and made the familiar plea that the poorer ieople were suffering all kinds of hardships from the man of the family blowing in his spare casli to the totalizateur, or mutuel. The field entrance was twelve cents and the associations removed the machine from that enclosure, hoping to limit the betting to the local big ring, to which fifty cents was charged. The field crowd simply migrated, paid its individual fifty cents, and whirled the Tot as wildly as ever. Now the Semitic element is facing the awful fact that its unwise agitation lias increased the blowing in to a difference of thirty-eight cents a day, between the twelve of the field, and the fifty of the big ring, due alone to their pushing their nose into what did not concern them. It also shows that if the average rabid speculator in any county on the footstool cannot reach the particular sport he wants, he will go to craps, dice, or even electric fan ldades rightly numbered, but he will satisfy his craving. Even as the so-called moralists satisfy theirs."
