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. _ E • • ■ al a -| I : is ai al t| the b: t t ~XJ Mr. Fi : ai i ; hi IL I H bs » ■ I the ti * w :l1 and the til la to L B00KMAKING UNDER ENGLISH LAW ■ We all live in times when lawyers are regarded — 2: Nl :ls Pariahs, and yel is is useful to know little law. Thus 1 am Sara Lord Lonsdale, in an R interview reported the oilier day. would not have advocated the Ik-easing of haahnuikera had be re o1 olds lalised that this would annul all the goad effects of S3 famous Kemptoii Parh case and would brtat us . back to the disastrous sitaatiea which threatened 1 make absolutely aa end .r raciag under th neci- •" sion in the Dunn case, from which the ingenuity of M stutiieid. resulting in the Kemptoa Park de- •►- cision. alone sared us. A single licensed bookmaker : .appearing in an incloaurc and •roceediag to transact "■ business would render ereryone in that inclosiirc •"■ .» .liable to arrest. The whole point „f the Kemptoa w Park decision, which was ratified finally by the * House of Lords, is that people in a race i-oiu-se •*•• inch sure ale |,e,. to bet with • another. hMt as M Ihej are anywliere else, but M „,„. ,.:MI i,.lv,, ., Si special lietting "uaer" of the place with. mi briaglns whole inch, sure under the act. Now. I feel sure that Lord Lonsdale must be wefl aware of the :,i■, wisdom of ti hi adage: "Let sleeping daga lie" W that he would not sUve,t ;niv attempt to raise bettiag question in parliament. Rut without 10 " lenislatire authority it is unite out of the question N: think of licensed bookmakers.— W VII Hon in M London Sportsman.
