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RIGHT OF RACING CLUB UPHELD. From Australia comes a report of a legal action taken by a bookmaker to establish his right to do business on the property of a club which did not want him. and the outcome was the same as in every similar case tried in any other country. In this instance, the aetioh was brought by William James Robinson, a bookmaker, against the Australian Jockey Club. He had been registered to bet at the Randwick course of the club and had carried on his business for a number of years. Last January the club made a regulation that bookmakers who did business on the tracks of unregistered clubs, at meetings held on the same day as a registered meeting, could not follow their vocation at Randwick. Robinson declined to be bound by this rule, and when he had broken it his registration was revoked. Subsequently he attempted to do business at Randwick, and was forcibly expelled from the race course. As it was purely a question of law, the parties drew up a special case, which was argued before three judges. They were unanimous iu the decision that there was no force in the plaintiffs contention that the clubs action was in restraint of his trade, and therefore illegal. The judge who gave the opinion declared the clubs regulation valid, and said that it was the intention of the law to place strong powers in the bauds of the committee Of the club, otherwise it might be impossible to carry on the business of a race course.
