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enough in the old blood of England — which, after 

 all, must have some weight — to taboo this ruinous 

 craze for sport, and to refrain from helping to make 

 it fashionable, even if the Rev. Mr. Howard, before 

 quoted, be not right in saying that Governors and 

 Judges aid in the gamble ? Is not the old blood of 

 England greatly responsible for setting the example ? 

 Will it not be blameworthy if, knowing what the 

 Earl of Derby, Lord Curzon, Governor Sir George 

 Clarke, and others like them, say, it do not sternly 

 help in the repression ? 



We have heard a good deal of the Yellow Agony 

 of late, and Australia is keenly alive to the question, 

 If the opinions of Sir George Clarke and the Rev. 

 Mr. Howard be correct, how will the Anglo-Saxon 

 race be armed to meet the suggested avalanche ? 

 Will the nation which is amenable to their criticism 

 be able to stand up against the weight of a yellow 

 people who, however much they may gamble, none 

 the less do not allow gambling to interfere with 

 their work ? 



The Australasian (September 4, 1904) quotes 

 the Sportsman, that honest men cannot hope to win 

 in the betting ring any more than in playing with a 

 sharper who uses a marked pack ; and also quotes 

 an elaborate defence of racing from the Sporting 

 Thnes, ridiculing ' the nonsense talked of late about 

 the state of the turf,' and, after an elaborate vindi- 

 cation of it, giving an instance to prove the faults 

 of present handicappers, and adding, ' Handicap- 



