CHAPTER VI. 



TOTALISATORS AND SWEEPS. 



How Totalisators are worked. Arguments for and against. 

 Big dividends. Struggling crowds. Owners' tactics. 

 Tote shops. How they were run. Double event dodges. 

 Sweeps. '' Tattersalls " and " Oxenhams.'' Some lucky 

 winners. Owners' demands. A moral Government. 



In Queensland, South Australia, New Zealand, and 

 Tasmania, the totalisator on racecourses is legalised, so 

 much per cent, on the investments being paid to the 

 Treasury. 



Opinions are fairly divided as to whether the 

 totalisator system, or betting with bookmakers, is the 

 more equitable and satisfactory plan of making wagers. 



I saw a good deal of the working of the totalisator 

 in Queensland, more especially at the headquarters of 

 the Queensland Turf Club at Eaglo Farm. 



Undoubtedly the totalisator has many advantages 

 over the system of betting with bookmakers for men 

 who do not make large wagers. For the public who 

 invest sums ranging from ten shillings upwards to, 



