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to the test of a plebiscite at the Victoria Club, when he found 

 that so far as payment for licenses was concerned, he had mis- 

 taken the feeling of the ring, which was by no means inclined 

 to support him, and the project therefore at once fell to the 

 ground. Few perhaps will regret it. So speedy was its ex- 

 tinction that its brief flicker would hardly have been worth 

 recording save for its being the first attempt at registration of 

 bookmakers in England. 



None the less however does the Jockey Club lie under the 

 heavy obligation of taking immediate and effectual measures for 

 making the reproach of 'race-course ruffianism' impossible at 

 any place under its control. 



