Browse Assuntos Betting 
Cinema racing - the new betting game which is expected to rival Bingo - got off to a good start when 1,600 excited "race-goers" attended the first full try-out at the Royal Ballroom, Tottenham. The idea is that half of an evening will be spent in ...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
A Punter with His Losing Ticket
'No luck chum! A punter tears up his losing ticket. Dig into your pocket.. Eyes up. They're off! It's Horsey-Horsey - the latest mass-flutter game. "Canned racing," the promoters call it. Recently was introduced to 1,600 Bingo fans at a Tottenham...
Daily Mirror
This is the unit of the Adder Machine (on right), showing the cog wheels, weeder, coils and Potentiometer. The coils induce the wheels to revolve by means of magnetism. The wheels attracted by the coils move a distance corresponding to the escapem...
The Times of Ceylon Press
York - Wednesday With the police now concentrating on brothels, the bookies have become a little bolder. They now issue printed sheets instead of the cyclo-styled sheets they issued in the past few weeks. Above is one of the printed cards that was...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Printed race sheets now appear every day except on Sundays as no races are run in the United Kingdom on Sundays. Above is a reproduction of yesterday's race sheet.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Punters Buying Their Tote Tickets
Punters buy their tote tickets for a game of Horsey-Horsey
Daily Mirror
"The Machine Room" In the foreground is the Adder Machine. The units of this machine are numbered as shown. Now each number corresponds to the horse number in any raid i.e., horse number one is allotted unit number one.
The Times of Ceylon Press
The Weights and Blades in the Adder Machine
As the scale in the grand total increases, the weight which is controlled by this scale increases. Now this weight acts on a blade fixed to each unit and it tends to raise the blade to a horizontal position. The weights and blades are marked on th...
The Times of Ceylon Press
