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+UNDAY, APRIL 8, 1951.
[op Racing Men
Give Pros, Cons
(n Bookmaking
BY HARRY GRAYSON
wEA Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK— (NEA) —Would
1. olized off-the-track . betting
o our the gambler influence in
+ublie life? L
1 the wake of the Senate Crime
Ihvestigating Committee’s’ hear
s, that question-is a hot, issue
ovor again among hookies and
nettors alike. It is also a serious
- --ument among experts in loftier
¢ in théroughbred racing:
Y rhe crime committee’s snot
v ni showed that without _their
jlleaal gains from gambling, the
- ieteors and hoodlums would
I.k the wherewithal to spread
. ruption among public servants.
“he proponents put it this way:
coal betting away from the
+ % would kill illegal bookmak
ine and its attendant -evils. More
over, it would give states, ‘coun
+ioc and cities a cut of the esti
mated five or six’ billion dollars
now being wagered each year on
cieet corners, in poelrooms and
p~ie joints. ;
1, ¢ opponents take this dim
% '
wal off-cotirse betting would
r e the racing industry a tool
o .n immense gambling program
which {nevitably would lead to
hotting excesses on thet par of
illions who could ill-afford to
c-mble. The reaction, they ar
«e. would be the death of a tra-
Citionally fine sport and an eco
nomically significant industry.
yerbert Bayard Swope, first
ehairman of the New York Rac
-412 Commission, speaks best for
the people who feel that if it's
loral to gamble on anything in
<i’e an enclosure, it should be
fe=al to gamble on it on the out
si'e. too.
“It you treat this question on a
#hoological basis you will get no
where in a long time,” says
€wope, who has among other
thines been a race track owner.
«n,t when it comes down to eco
nomics, the answer is indeed sim
ple: legalize off-course betting.
“The immediate job at hanl is
to funnel the tremendous amount
of money new being bet away
¢rom tracks into the channel
where states, counties and cities
got their percentage. Ny
“A total of $1,300,000,000 was
b-t at the tracks last year. Those
who should be in a position to
etimate well say four or five
t+imes as much, say five or six bil
lions, annually is wagered through
poolrooms and whatnot. '
“France has kiosks where you
bet just as you bet at mutuel win
¢ows, and are paid off just as at
the track. The information is elec
trically transmitted to the track,
where the money is wagered
through the mutuel machines, just
a: though it had been bet at the
track.
Gambling Instinct
“Gambling is an instinet.
There is nothing wrong with it
per se. That being the case the
next best thing is to knock down
the foundations of the criminal
alliance between gambling and
po'ice,
“Legalization of off-couse bet
ting would not result in any ap
preciable increase in betting. It
would merely make it legal and
protect the bettor.
“Unless some thing like this is
done, racing runs the risk of dying
from restrictive legislation, which
i bound to be passed unless rack
etteers and hoodlums are denied
the chanee to collect illegal book
making gains by corrupting public
« cials.
‘Why make the small bettor
vho cannot afford to go to the
track patronize a crook to satisfy
an urge that is as old as the
human race?
“The argument that legalized
betting would necessarily lead to
the legalization of wagering on
other sports s without foundation.
Pari-mutuel wagering at track is
eoal. Betting on other sports is
i 1 under any conditions.
Jetting exists in connection
with racing, and we might just as
v do it right.
I have enough faith in thor
oushbred racing to believe that
regardless of how much betting
is done away from the tracks, or
bew it i 3 handled, racing will
#ntinue. ,
! “With betting legal at the tracks,
the law against betting away from
them is biased, unfair and unen
forceable, just as is any legisla
tion that seeks to rule out of ex
%tence a basic human impulse.
No License dßookmakers
‘T wouldn’t Hcense bookmakers.
I'l simply put enough pari-mutuel
clorks around the state to drive
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them our of business.
“And I believe the bookmakers
will tell you they wouldn’'t at
tempt to operate under such a
set-up. I doubt that they could
exist paying track prices. Their
limit now, you know, is 15 or
20-tol. The player has to pay to
insure a track price on a long-shot.
“As far as the cost of this op
eration goes. I've never heard
of a track going broke because it
placed mutuel clerks where they
could do the most business.
“As for the Kefauver Commit
tee recommending stopping the
transmission of racing information
from state to state, .it might just
as well order ink manufacturers
out of business because forgers
use their product.”
For the opponents, Joe Sstes,
editor of The glood-llorse, speaks
ardently for Jockey Club Chair
man George D. Widener angd other
racing people of similar mind.
“It would be just as logical to
legalize betting on baseball, bas
ketball, boxing and other sports
as well as slot machines, cards.
dice, roulette and all other gam
bling games,” he insists.
“If betting is the main idea, it
is more than a trifle foolish to have
$250,000,000 invested in race tracks
and maintain $150.000,000 worth
of horses, when we could do it
all as well with a SSO roulette
wheel.”
This view is echoed by Spencer
J. Drayton, former FBI man who
is executive secretary of the
Thoroughbred Racing Associa
tions of the U. S.
He says that the machinery of
getting off-track bets through a
totalizator would be too involved
and too costly. And he agrees
with the now illegal bookies that
without stringent law enforce
ment, off-course betting wouldn’t
put them out of business.
“Police not only would be left
with all the existing headaches
in connection with illegal betting
on racing, but would acquire ad
ditional ones,” says Drayton,.who
was once J. Edgar Hoover’s right
hand man.
Opponents of off - track gam
bling quote Virgil W. Peterson,
operating director of the Chicago
Crime Commissions, whe says
those who have been engaged in
illegal gambling in Chicago are
solidly behind any proposal to
legalize it.
“Most of them have been iden
tified with the hoodlum or gang
ster element,” reports Director
Peterson.
Frank Costello, reputed No. 1
man of the underworld makes this
unanimous. . :
“That’s the key to the mess,” he
says.
Racing people agree with Pet
erson in his statements that:
“THe business of gambling and
politics have always been closely
affiliated with resultant benefits
to political machine and the op
erators of illegal gambling estab
lishments. .
“Tt is reasonable to assume that
both politicians and gambling es
tablishment operators expect to
benefit by the legalization propo
sals since it is seldom that indi
viduals or organizations work to
ward the liquidation of important
self interests.” }
Bookie Business
«professionals prefer to bet with
handbooks because large amounts l
bet at the track depress the price,”
point out the racing people. “Un~
der off-course betting procedures,
as outlined in proposed legislation,
all money bet would go into the
track pool, would be a factor in
determining the price. Therefore,
the professional still would bet
with illegal bookmakers.
“The small player bets with the
books because he cannot afford
the time and expense of going to
the track, and because with the |
book he can get action with one |;
dollar by making an “if” bet, par- |
lay or round robin. Such Dbets |
would not be acceptable to state
operated off-course betting offices.
“Legalization of off-course bet
ting would be an encouragement
to the occasional racegoer—and to
other—to bet every day whether
or not they could attend the
races.”
The racing people close their
case by stressing the fact that
New York books have been hiding
since the Brooklyn District Attor
ney started taking pot shots last
year.
In the end, the racing people
| contend there isn’t anything about
illegal off - course betting that
lcan’t be controlled by an honest
cop.
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